Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) claimed on Thursday that President Donald Trump as on the verge of starting a civil war.
Waters made the highly inflammatory remarks while speaking at press conference for the Congressional Black Caucus.
&#8220;I’m worried that Trump is on the edge of creating a civil war,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;He alluded to it more than once. He alluded to the fact that if he did not get reelected, that there could be a civil war.&#8221;
She claimed that this idea placed a major responsibility on Democrats to &#8220;live and do, like Doctor Martin Luther King told us to do.&#8221;
&#8220;He taught us to organize and to protest, but he taught us nonviolence,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He taught us nonviolence. That was the center. That was the core of his message. And we live with that all the time. No matter how upset we can get, no matter how angry we can get. We live with what we’ve been taught.&#8221;
Waters claimed that Trump was putting people &#8220;in a position where hungry people are going to be on the street, where nonprofits who were waiting for their checks are not going to get them, where seniors waiting for their Social Security check will not get it – where poor families with children will not get what they believe the government has agreed to do.&#8221;
&#8220;And so when that happens, what does Trump expect? Oh, I believe he expects violence,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;I believe he expects confrontation. I believe he’s working toward a civil war.&#8221;
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Maxine Waters Claims Trump Is Trying To Start A ‘Civil War’

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Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) voiced his displeasure after several of the heavy hitters in his party took to the streets to protest billionaire entrepreneur <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk&#8217;s</a> efforts to root out waste and fraud within the federal government.
Videos circulated of prominent Democrats protesting Musk&#8217;s involvement in President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) could be heard shouting, &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna be in your face, we&#8217;re gonna be on your a**.&#8221; Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) warned the crowd that they only had days &#8220;to stop the destruction&#8221; of American democracy as they knew it.
The clip that really made the rounds showed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), holding hands with Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), as he chanted, &#8220;We will win!&#8221; and &#8220;We won&#8217;t rest!&#8221;
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I can&#8217;t stop laughing at this.
Chuck Schumer and Maxine Waters holding hands and chanting &#8220;We Will Win&#8221; after losing everything just 90 days ago.
The Democrat Party is toast. <a href="https://t.co/g8cRDwcjrY">pic.twitter.com/g8cRDwcjrY</a>
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While Ryan did not say that he disagreed with the reason for the protest, he made it clear that he was unimpressed by its execution.
&#8220;I just don’t even know what to say anymore when I see this kind of stuff. Is it Saturday Night Live or real life? Does anyone really think this is the future of the country? This is the only alternative to Trump’s America? It’s just so depressing,&#8221; he complained via X.
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I just don’t even know what to say anymore when I see this kind of stuff. Is it Saturday Night Live or real life? Does anyone really think this is the future of the country? This is the only alternative to Trump’s America? It’s just so depressing. <a href="https://t.co/5qJihgREAt">https://t.co/5qJihgREAt</a>
— Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimRyan/status/1887162858074431982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Ryan was not the only Democrat to pan the protests — in fact, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/can-we-play-it-again-cnn-panel-cracks-up-over-ridiculous-dem-protests-against-elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN panel</a> came to a similar conclusion on Tuesday evening as even Democrat commentator Bakari Sellers admitted he was not a fan.
&#8220;I don’t want to hear Chuck Schumer saying, ‘We won’t lose’ and ‘We won’t rest.’ I’d rather have a small business owner up there talking about the impact on them. I’d rather have somebody who was displaced, who was a black woman, who’s worked hard to have her business out there chanting,&#8221; he said.
Republican commentator Scott Jennings thoroughly enjoyed the segment, first asking if host Abby Phillip could &#8220;play it again&#8221; and then adding, &#8220;Ladies and gentlemen: The American Left is so far off the rails, they’re going to have to get Google Maps to find their way back. They’re way gone right now, and it’s glorious!&#8221;

Tim Ryan

Former Dem Rep. Roasts Schumer Over Musk Protest: ‘It’s Just So Depressing’

Former Dem Rep. Roasts Schumer Over Musk Protest: 'It’s Just So Depressing'

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As former President Donald Trump marched to victory over Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday night, leftist members of the media and Democrats cited racism and misogyny.
Trump was declared the victor first by Fox News, but it took hours for other news organizations to admit the fact.
Former Barack Obama advisor David Axelrod cited sexism as part of the reason for Harris’ defeat.
“I think there are plenty of ways to critique her as a candidate; I think they’ll be time to do that,&#8221; Axelrod said. &#8220;But that doesn’t obviate the fact that there were some people who probably voted against her, we’ve never had a woman president, that there’s sexism in this country.&#8221;
“I do have to wonder what role race and gender played,” ABC’s Linsey Davis said.
“I mean, we’re talking about, one thing that stands out, a less diverse electorate, when you think about even just at-large with the world, of the 193 member nations only 13 have a woman who leads them. Black women are often the last at the table when it comes to pay disparity in this country, getting 67 cents on the dollar when it comes to white men.&#8221;
Davis went on: &#8220;And so I don’t know that we have the answers tonight, but I think that is kind of the elephant in the room that we’re not talking about, because we’re not just talking about having a woman, we’re talking about having a woman of color, and I think that that’s something that we cannot underestimate.”
Asked why Trump won, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) declared, “Racism is the basic part. Now I know that there will be some support from some minorities, but basically, we’re outnumbered. We’re outnumbered. And it’s not about whether or not, y’know, people are selecting absolutely based on public policy or whether or not there’s an elected official who’s willing to do what’s in the best interest of all the people.&#8221;
&#8220;People don’t like to talk about racism,&#8221; Waters said. &#8220;But the fact of the matter is the majority of his votes are going to come from whites, and that’s who he has been talking to, all campaign, about taking the country back, taking it back from too many minorities who are doing too well.”

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Media, Dems Blame Americans’ Racism, Sexism For Harris Loss

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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said during an interview this week that Vice President Kamala Harris did &#8220;all the right things&#8221; regarding her rise in the political world.
Waters made the remarks during an interview with MSNBC host Joy Reid. They discussed Harris&#8217; new presidential campaign, which launched on Sunday after President Joe Biden announced that he was quitting his re-election bid.
&#8220;It is going to be tough. They&#8217;re gonna accuse her, they&#8217;re gonna call her names, they&#8217;re gonna do all kinds of things. But you know, she is not going to be intimidated,&#8221; Waters said. &#8220;She&#8217;s smart, she&#8217;s tough, she knows how it all works now. She&#8217;s worked at the White House, she&#8217;s the Vice President of the United States, and she&#8217;s smarter than Trump. And so, if they come after her, she&#8217;s gonna get them.&#8221;
While discussing Harris&#8217;s rise through California politics, Waters said Harris was a &#8220;determined person.&#8221;
&#8220;She had a good career because she concentrated and worked at having a good career,&#8221; Waters said. &#8220;And she moved right up the ladder into the Senate and into the Vice Presidency. Well, it was all because she is strong and she believed in herself. And she came from strong parents.&#8221;
&#8220;It was that kind of strength and that kind of courage and that kind of belief in self that I think defines her,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And she did all the right things, for the most part, in terms of how you climb up the ladder. I don&#8217;t care what they say. She trained well, she went to school, she did well. All of those things that she was taught to do. And so, I think she&#8217;d be seen and understood as a woman who was always on a mission. She was accomplished. She succeeded.&#8221;
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Rep. Maxine Waters: Kamala Harris &#8220;Did All The Right Things In Terms Of How You Climb Up The Ladder&#8221; 
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Democrat Maxine Waters: ‘She Did All The Right Things … In Terms Of How You Climb Up The Ladder’

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) declared over the weekend that if former President Donald Trump wins re-election that &#8220;millions&#8221; of people will be threatened and &#8220;killings&#8221; will happen.
Waters made the remarks during a Sunday interview on MSNBC when asked about if she was concerned about her personal safety if Trump were to win.
&#8220;I’m very concerned, not only about my safety and not only about the safety of members of Congress,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;I’m concerned about the safety of so many people in this country, particularly people of color. Donald Trump has said that if he does not win, it is going to be fraud, and because it is going to be fraud, there will be blood in the streets. He threatens about a civil war, and he threatens there’s going to be violence.&#8221;
&#8220;I would say all of this talk is motivational with many of those who are racist, who are sitting at home listening to him, and they are taking him up on his threats even before the elections take place,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It is about thousands, maybe millions of people being threatened and being at risk because of Donald Trump and his desire to seek revenge on anything and everybody.&#8221;
She claimed that Trump&#8217;s words, combined with the January 6 riot, would lead to &#8220;more killings&#8221; happening.
&#8220;I think Donald Trump has to take responsibility for what he is saying about blood in the streets and violence if he is not elected to be the president of the United States of America,&#8221; she said.
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Maxine Waters feigning concern for the safety of all &#8216;people of color&#8217; if Trump is elected: 
&#8220;I&#8217;m very concerned, not only about my safety, and not only about the safety of members of Congress. I&#8217;m concerned about the safety of so many people in this country, particularly people… <a href="https://t.co/aJgnrKMwnx">pic.twitter.com/aJgnrKMwnx</a>
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1804654848949850517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2024</a></blockquote>

Maxine Waters: Trump Winning Would Be Threatening To ‘Millions’; ‘Killings’ Will Happen

2024 Election

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) sounded off over the weekend about &#8220;domestic terrorists&#8221; who support former President Donald Trump, saying they should be investigated for potentially plotting a &#8220;civil war.&#8221;
During an MSNBC interview on Sunday, Waters called Trump&#8217;s rhetoric &#8220;dangerous&#8221; and said she would ask the criminal justice system to tell her &#8220;what&#8217;s going on,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/rep-maxine-waters-trump-supporters-investigated-preparing-civil-war">reported</a>.
&#8220;I&#8217;m worried that he&#8217;s so divisive and that he&#8217;s talking about retribution, and they&#8217;re talking about revenge and I think that that&#8217;s dangerous. He&#8217;s even mentioned civil war at one point, talked about there would be bloodshed,&#8221; Waters said.
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Low IQ Maxine Waters calls supporters of President Trump &#8220;domestic terrorists&#8221; and wonders if they&#8217;re &#8220;preparing a civil war against us&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/iOvXuJXSwy">pic.twitter.com/iOvXuJXSwy</a>
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Here is Maxine Waters calling for targeted violence.
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&#8220;I am going to spend some time with the criminal justice system, with the justice system asking them, &#8216;Tell us what&#8217;s going on with the domestic terrorists. Are they preparing a civil war against us? Should we be concerned about our safety? What is he doing with this divisive language? It is dangerous, and we are going to have to make sure that we understand that we&#8217;re not at risk with this man talking in the way that he&#8217;s doing.&#8221;
Waters went on to slam Trump for being &#8220;in love&#8221; with foreign leaders and countries.
&#8220;This is not good for this country, but he does not care about democracy,&#8221; Waters said. &#8220;He does not care about the Constitution of the United States. He&#8217;s in love with Putin and Russia and Kim Jong Un and North Korea and all of that.&#8221;
&#8220;And so it&#8217;s not just that he&#8217;s a criminal. This is a man who disrespects the Constitution and democracy, and we have got to find out what they&#8217;re doing as domestic terrorists tried to take over the government on January 6,&#8221; she said.
Waters suggested Trump supporters might engage in violent attacks and said she was trying to start an &#8220;investigation.&#8221;
&#8220;How far is this going to go?&#8221; Waters asked. &#8220;Are they going to be attacking? Whom are they going to attack? What are we going to do? We&#8217;re trying to get an investigation going about that.&#8221;
Back in 2018, Waters called for Americans to harass Trump&#8217;s Cabinet members if they encountered them in public places.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s stay the course,&#8221; Waters <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/politics/maxine-waters-trump-officials/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> a crowd of her supporters at a rally in Los Angeles. &#8220;Let&#8217;s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they&#8217;re not welcome anymore, anywhere.&#8221;

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WATCH: Maxine Waters Says ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Trump Supporters Should Be Investigated For Potential ‘Civil War’

Maxine Waters Says 'Domestic Terrorist' Trump Supporters Should Be Investigated For Potential 'Civil War'

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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) claimed on Sunday that former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s supporters were &#8220;training up in the hills somewhere&#8221; — and even planning which communities they were &#8220;going to attack&#8221; — so that they would be ready to engage in violence if he lost his 2024 re-election bid.
Waters joined MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart on &#8220;The Sunday Show&#8221; to discuss Trump&#8217;s recent interview for TIME Magazine, and she said that her plan was to ask President Joe Biden and the Justice Department how they planned to prepare for violence from &#8220;right-wing organizations.&#8221;
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&#8220;This is a man who we better be careful about,&#8221; Waters warned. &#8220;And I tell you what I&#8217;m going to do. I&#8217;m going to ask the Justice Department, and I&#8217;m going to ask the president to tell us what they&#8217;re going to do to protect this country against violence if he loses.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that he&#8217;s connected with, who are training up in the hills somewhere and targeting, you know, what communities they&#8217;re going to attack,&#8221; Waters continued, presenting no evidence to support her claims.
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The California congresswoman has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-maxine-waters-calls-attacks-members-trump-ryan-saavedra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made headlines</a> in the past for suggesting that members of the former president&#8217;s administration deserved to be accosted in public.
&#8220;Already, you have members of your Cabinet that are being booed out of restaurants … who have protesters taking up at their house, who say, &#8216;No peace, no sleep! No peace, no sleep!'&#8221; Waters said, adding, &#8220;God is on our side!&#8221;
&#8220;Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,&#8221; she continued.

Maxine Waters: Trump Supporters Are ‘Training Up In The Hills’ To Engage In Violence If He Loses

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Former President Donald Trump was on a roll Friday evening at the California GOP Convention, using his speaking time to cover a range of topics facing the Golden State — including Cali&#8217;s abundance of lousy politicians.
During the speech, which lasted north of 90 minutes, the Republican primary frontrunner told the crowd, &#8220;The mission to help you liberate California from communist rule begins at noon on Inauguration Day 2025.&#8221;
He then lit into leftists from up and down the California coast.
&#8220;Together, we will take on the ultra left-wing liars, losers, creeps, perverts, and freaks who are devouring the future of this state like a swarm of locusts,&#8221; he said to applause.
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&#8220;And we&#8217;ll stand up to up to crazy Nancy  — who ruined San Francisco,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;How&#8217;s her husband doing, by the way, anybody knows? And she&#8217;s against building a wall at our border. Even though she has a wall around her house. Which obviously didn&#8217;t do a very good job.&#8221;
That line grew a smattering of applause.
&#8220;But then you have Kamala Harris. She&#8217;s great,&#8221; he said sarcastically, earning boos for the former California senator.
Trump then touched upon Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who encouraged her supporters in 2018 to harass Trump Cabinet members, &#8220;in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.&#8221;
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June 2018: Maxine Waters calls for attacks on Trump admin: &quot;If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/pVPiXpQMq1">pic.twitter.com/pVPiXpQMq1</a>
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&#8220;Maxine Waters, very nice woman,&#8221; Trump said Friday. &#8220;How come she can say things so violently, &#8216;You will go with and attack them in a restaurant you&#8217;ll do this, that,&#8217; nothing happens. If I say, &#8216;peacefully and patriotically,&#8217; [then] &#8216;Oh, there&#8217;s an Insurrection going on here.&#8217; Maxine Waters&#8230; If  I ever spoke like her, it would be the electric chair times 15 for me.&#8221;
During that section of the address, Trump also ripped Governor Gavin Newsom, and Reps. Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff.
His speech drew laughs from the audience and earned praise on social media.
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Donald Trump LIVE from Anaheim, California RAILING against the Gold State&#39;s insane politicians is the BEST thing you&#39;ll see today: 
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&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1707867523155452275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Not everybody was a fan of it, though. During the speech, Trump also used expletives, including &#8220;motherf*****.&#8221; His primary opponent, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, also addressed the California GOP and was decidedly less vulgar.
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Two Florida Men go to California
One talks about shale oils and how the Golden State is the “Petri dish for leftism”
The other says “motherfucker” and “shit” and mockingly references how Pelosi’s husband was attacked with a hammer <a href="https://t.co/KGqjHhEvce">https://t.co/KGqjHhEvce</a>
&mdash; Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcACaputo/status/1707921480481435859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The former president also unveiled a new imitation of President Joe Biden, mocking him for his inability to exit a stage:
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Donald Trump on Joe Biden: “Does anybody think he’s going to make it to the starting gate? I mean the guy can’t find his way off of a stage” 🤣 <a href="https://t.co/6rky1jh5V1">pic.twitter.com/6rky1jh5V1</a>
&mdash; ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) <a href="https://twitter.com/alx/status/1707869806043582758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Per the latest, Real Clear Politics polling average, Trump leads California&#8217;s <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/ca/2024_california_republican_presidential_primary-8133.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GOP primary</a> by 35 points.
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At California GOP Convention, Trump Blasts ‘Left-Wing Liars, Losers, Creeps, Perverts, And Freaks’ Ruining State

At California GOP Convention, Trump Blasts 'Left-Wing Liars, Losers, Creeps, Perverts, And Freaks' Ruining State

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elizabeth-warren" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Warren</a> (D-MA) and Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/maxine-waters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maxine Waters</a> (D-CA) asserted that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation should “reexamine” the $250,000 deposit insurance threshold on <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/banks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bank</a> accounts.
The vast majority of deposits at <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/silicon-valley-bank" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Silicon Valley Bank</a>, which offered services to nearly half of the venture-backed technology and healthcare firms in the United States before its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/parent-company-of-silicon-valley-bank-explores-bankruptcy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collapse</a> last week, exceeded the $250,000 threshold insured by the FDIC. Regulators scrambled to guarantee all deposits at Silicon Valley Bank such that the remainder of the financial system, in which roughly half of deposits surpass $250,000, would remain safeguarded against bank runs.
Waters, a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, said in an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/business/maxine-waters-fdic.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The New York Times that lawmakers should contemplate increasing the deposit insurance threshold. “When you have something like Silicon Valley Bank with over 90% of its depositors uninsured,” she remarked, “do we increase the amount of premiums that banks will pay in order to have a bigger insurance fund or do we just remain the way that we are and take it on a one-by-one basis for consideration?”
The current threshold of $250,000 is suitable for most individuals, yet businesses such as the ones served by Silicon Valley Bank often retain larger sums to conduct operations and pay employees. The FDIC now directs holdings maintained by Silicon Valley Bank, while the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve vowed that depositors both above and below the $250,000 limit will have their assets insured. Signature Bank was likewise closed by regulators on Sunday.
Waters said that any acquisition deal involving Silicon Valley Bank should avoid consolidation with major financial institutions. “I’m not interested in mergers so much,” she added. “I don’t want this country to become a country where we rely on just four or five big banks.”
Warren, a member of the Senate Banking Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, meanwhile remarked that lawmakers should “reexamine, just overall, about why we have limits” at the $250,000 threshold. “Some small business, some nonprofit, needs a place to manage its money,” she said in an interview with CNBC, according to a <a href="https://thehill.com/business/banking-financial-institutions/3901205-warren-says-250000-cap-in-deposit-insurance-for-banks-should-be-reexamined/#:~:text=Sen.%20Elizabeth%20Warren%20(D%2DMass.)%20on%20Wednesday,on%20CNBC's%20%E2%80%9CSquawk%20Street.%E2%80%9D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Hill. “They need to be able to make payroll, they need to be able to pay the utility bills, and they need a safe place to have that money where somebody’s going to keep it safe.”
The lawmaker has <a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-warren-delivers-speech-on-bank-failures-and-new-bill-to-reverse-trump-era-deregulation-of-banking-rules" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contended</a> that portions of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, which was signed by former President Donald Trump to ease oversight for banks between $50 billion and $250 billion in assets, should be repealed. She submitted legislation alongside Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) meant to implement “stronger oversight” which would “help protect our economy from heightened risk.”
“Last week the FDIC was forced to rush in to take over two failing banks, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, and then take extraordinary actions to protect those banks’ customers and prevent the contagion from spreading throughout the economy,” Warren said on the Senate floor. “If Congress and the Federal Reserve had not rolled back key provisions of Dodd-Frank, these banks would have been subject to stronger liquidity and capital requirements to help withstand financial shocks.”

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Some believe that the cushiest job in the world is playing as a backup quarterback in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nfl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NFL</a> but, as of late, perhaps the sweetest gig one can land is being the spouse of a Democratic member of Congress.
Per several reports on Tuesday, Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) and retired Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL) are just the latest lefties accused of shelling out big bucks to their spouses for no-show jobs on the campaign trail and beyond.
Over the weekend, Bush quietly married her security guard Cortney Merritts. The Missouri Democrat has often called to &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; while claiming that she needs security because her life would be in danger without it. As for the well-being of the plebs who can&#8217;t afford private security, well, she hasn&#8217;t quite addressed those concerns.
The receipts show that Bush paid Merritts $60,000 for his &#8220;security services.&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cori-bushs-campaign-paid-husband-security-services-doesnt-have-private-security-license" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Tuesday that Merritt isn&#8217;t actually licensed to practice any security in Bush&#8217;s district — as required by state law. Nonetheless, Bush&#8217;s campaign paid Merritt throughout 2022 via a series of $2,500 checks. At the same time, Bush&#8217;s campaign paid PEACE Security $225,281.80 for personal protection.
Adding to the intrigue, Bush&#8217;s office confirmed that the newlyweds have been an item since 2021 — which means Bush hired her boyfriend for supposed personal security despite him not having the authority to act in that capacity since 2012, Fox News claimed.
Also on Tuesday, The Washington Examiner reported that former Congressman Bobby Rush is accused of handing out potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of campaign funds to not only his wife, but his son, mother, and even his church in Chicago where he serves as the pastor.
The Examiner&#8217;s Gabe Kaminsky noted that Rush’s campaign has paid his ex-convict son, Jeffrey Rush, roughly $45,000 since 2019. In 2022, his campaign paid $13,500 to his wife for &#8220;accounting services,&#8221; according to Kaminsky. Rush had announced his plans to retire in January 2023 and wasn&#8217;t up for re-election. Right before exiting office, he gave his wife another 900 smackeroos, per The Examiner.
Rush and Bush aren&#8217;t alone in their family jobs program.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) gave the firm co-owned by her husband (not her brother) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-cuts-ties-to-husbands-firm-after-funneling-millions-in-campaign-funds-to-it-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly three million dollars</a> during the 2020 election. She then cut ties immediately after she won.
In 2022, the team of Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/report-dem-maxine-waters-funnels-tens-of-thousands-in-campaign-funds-to-daughters-business/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paid</a> more than $200,000 to her daughter for campaign services such as creating mailers. Per The Washington Free Beacon, Waters&#8217; daughter has been given more than $1.2 million over the past few decades by Auntie Maxine — as she is known by her fans.
And then there&#8217;s Vice President Kamala Harris, who wasn&#8217;t a spouse but a girlfriend to San Fransisco Mayor Willie Brown. Many have claimed that &#8220;love connection&#8221; helped kickstart her career.
Here&#8217;s what he had to say about his ex-<a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Sure-I-dated-Kamala-Harris-So-what-13562972.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inamorata</a> in 2019: &#8220;Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago. Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker. And I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco.&#8221;
Brown went on to claim he also helped other Californian women advance in their careers, but that Harris was the only one to threaten to put him in jail for &#8220;so much as jaywalking.&#8221;
That being said, given the general insanity of leftists, maybe it&#8217;s a better choice to go for the backup QB gig for your next career if you are reading this column and seeing green. Learning an NFL playbook would be a lot less hassle than trying to make sure campaign expenditures comply with the law over family dinners.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Former FTX CEO <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/sam-bankman-fried" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sam Bankman-Fried</a> agreed on Friday to testify before the House Financial Services Committee next week.
FTX filed for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30-year-old-billionaire-loses-entire-fortune-overnight-as-his-bahamas-based-cryptocurrency-empire-implodes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bankruptcy</a> last month after users discovered that the cryptocurrency exchange was likely fraudulently intertwined with Alameda Research; both were controlled by Bankman-Fried and a close-knit group of amateur executives. The disgraced entrepreneur announced his intention to appear before lawmakers on December 13 during a social media <a href="https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1601186246990401537" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exchange</a> with House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/maxine-waters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maxine Waters</a> (D-CA).
“I still do not have access to much of my data — professional or personal. So there is a limit to what I will be able to say, and I won&#8217;t be as helpful as I&#8217;d like,” he remarked. “But as the committee still thinks it would be useful, I am willing to testify.”
Bankman-Fried expressed willingness to discuss solvency for customers with funds in FTX US, what he believes led to the liquidity crisis, and his “own failings.”
“I had thought of myself as a model CEO, who wouldn&#8217;t become lazy or disconnected,” he added. “Which made it that much more destructive when I did. I&#8217;m sorry. Hopefully people can learn from the difference between who I was and who I could have been.”
The now-broke entrepreneur was initially hesitant to appear before lawmakers, as he <a href="https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1599511560384225281" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that he first needed to finish “learning and reviewing what happened.” Waters had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maxine-waters-blasted-for-gentle-tweet-politely-asking-possible-financial-criminal-sam-bankman-fried-to-testify" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> for being extraordinarily polite in her invitation to Bankman-Fried; she told the would-be cryptocurrency wunderkind, who may have lost untold billions in customers’ funds, that lawmakers “appreciate that you’ve been candid in your discussions about what happened.”
Despite the rosy characterization of Bankman-Fried&#8217;s talent, current FTX CEO John Ray III, a lawyer who succeeded Bankman-Fried to manage the company’s bankruptcy proceedings, remarked in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawyer-overseeing-ftx-fallout-never-in-my-career-have-i-seen-such-a-complete-failure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court filing</a> that the team overseeing the company was utterly inept. “Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here,” he wrote.
Bankman-Fried, a prolific <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-democrats-and-republicans-who-received-campaign-cash-linked-to-bankrupt-crypto-empire-ftx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaign donor</a>, has denied accusations of criminality. New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-denies-wrongdoing-in-ftx-implosion-during-live-streamed-new-york-times-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the entrepreneur that he received multiple letters from FTX customers who accused Bankman-Fried of stealing their life savings, prompting him to say that he was “deeply sorry about what happened.” After Sorkin pressed him on the alleged intertwining of funds between his companies, Bankman-Fried claimed that a “failure of oversight” on his part resulted in confusion rather than any desire to defraud investors for his own profit.
The New York Times had previously run a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-times-runs-puff-piece-about-disgraced-billionaire-sam-bankman-fried-leaves-out-connections-to-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">puff piece</a> claiming that the potential fraudster’s “ambitions exceeded his grasp.” Other media outlets had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-of-center-media-accepted-millions-from-democrat-donor-and-disgraced-crypto-wunderkind-sam-bankman-fried" target="_blank" rel="noopener">portrayed</a> Bankman-Fried as a generous “effective altruist” who donated his fortune to causes such as “pandemic prevention.”
Beyond the scheduled hearing for the House Financial Services Committee, members of the Senate Agriculture Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-commodities-regulator-tells-senators-he-met-with-sam-bankman-fried-10-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held a hearing</a> last week with Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Rostin Behnam on increasing federal oversight of the cryptocurrency sector. Officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission have opened a criminal investigation into Bankman-Fried to determine whether he broke the law by transferring FTX customer funds to Alameda Research, according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-prosecutors-open-criminal-investigation-into-disgraced-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The New York Times.

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Sam Bankman-Fried Agrees To Testify Before Congress

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House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/maxine-waters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maxine Waters</a> (D-CA) is reportedly not planning to subpoena disgraced former FTX CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sam-bankman-fried" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sam Bankman-Fried</a> to testify in front of the committee next week about the company&#8217;s rapid collapse.
CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/07/ftx-maxine-waters-doesnt-plan-to-subpoena-sam-bankman-fried-to-testify-at-hearing-on-crypto-exchanges-collapse.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, citing sources, that Waters informed members of her decision Tuesday during a private meeting with Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler.
Waters told members that she wants Bankman-Fried to testify &#8220;voluntarily&#8221; even though he has not agreed to do so, the report said.
&#8220;Your willingness to talk to the public will help the company&#8217;s customers, investors, and others,&#8221; Waters tweeted to Bankman-Fried earlier this month. &#8220;To that end, we would welcome your participation in our hearing on the 13th.&#8221;
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Bankman-Fried responded, &#8220;Once I have finished learning and reviewing what happened, I would feel like it was my duty to appear before the committee and explain.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure that will happen by the 13th,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But when it does, I will testify.&#8221;
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Rep. Waters, and the House Committee on Financial Services:
Once I have finished learning and reviewing what happened, I would feel like it was my duty to appear before the committee and explain.
I&#39;m not sure that will happen by the 13th. But when it does, I will testify. <a href="https://t.co/c0P8yKlyQt">https://t.co/c0P8yKlyQt</a>
&mdash; SBF (@SBF_FTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1599511560384225281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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FTX, which is headquartered in the Bahamas, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30-year-old-billionaire-loses-entire-fortune-overnight-as-his-bahamas-based-cryptocurrency-empire-implodes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> in 2019 and had accrued more than one million users by 2022. Users suddenly demanded $6 billion in withdrawals after an article published by CoinDesk revealed last month that the two arms of Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency empire, FTX and Alameda Research, had significant overlap on their balance sheets in the form of the cryptocurrency FTT, which FTX invented. Rival firm Binance, which had been planning to purchase FTX, announced that it would discharge all holdings in the coin and eventually reversed course on the acquisition.
The disheveled 30-year-old went from boasting a $15.6 billion net worth to having “no material wealth” over the span of approximately two days. Federal and state officials are now investigating whether Bankman-Fried broke laws with his actions at the company.
Bankman-Fried was the second largest donor for Democrats this last election cycle, only behind megadonor George Soros, giving at least $38 million to leftist causes, PACs, and candidates, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/troubled-crypto-boss-sam-bankman-fried-lost-15b-week-funneled-millions-dems-far-left-causes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/10/crypto-megadonor-sam-bankman-fried-00066062" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Bankman-Fried was a top resource to whom Democrats went when lawmakers began looking at ways to regulate cryptocurrencies because of “his willingness to write multimillion dollar checks to boost Democrats.”
Bankman-Fried <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/24/crypto-billionaire-says-he-could-spend-a-record-breaking-1-billion-in-2024-election.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> earlier this year that he was preparing to spend between $100 million and $1 billion on the presidential election in 2024 to keep Democrats in the White House.

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