Maxine Waters Said There Was 'No Violence.' Now She Says Trump Started It.

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On Tuesday, Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California said that there was no violence happening in Los Angeles.

On Wednesday, Waters admitted that there was violence happening in L.A. but that President Trump started it.

You can't make this up.

Tuesday, Waters said during a Capitol Hill press conference, “Nobody was shot, nobody was killed, get it into your head."

“Don’t think that somehow because they called out the National Guard there was violence," she added, noting President Trump's deployment of 700 National Guardsman to the riots.

"There was no violence," Waters insisted. "I was on the street, I know."

Then, just 24 hours later, Waters said this in an interview with CNN's Briana Keller, “The president of the United States should do what he didn’t do when we were invaded in the Capitol, when they had the insurrection that he led, he should get on the phone and talk to the local police."

Waters continued (emphasis added), “He should talk to the people that he’s had deployed there. And he has a responsibility in all of this. He started this. That should be no violence. He should not continue to support violence. They should not be egged and, you know, provoked in any way. And that’s what the president of the United States is doing to exert his power and to show that he’s in charge, and to show that he’s going to get the numbers that he promised to get people deported.”

It's hard to make out at points what she's really trying to say, Waters seems upset that the National Guard are present to quell violence she said did not exist prior.

Which is absurd. There was plenty of violent rioting in LA the last few days including on Tuesday when she made her first statement.

But if you really believe there was no violence, then how does Waters now conclude that Trump "started it [the violence]?"

It makes no sense. Then again, this is Maxine Waters we're talking about.