Because the nation continues to reel from a violent coup try on the U.S. Capitol that was incited by the sitting president of the US, there’s a rising risk that different MAGA assaults are being plotted all across the country within the run as much as Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Throughout an interview on Monday, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) stated she wasn’t in any respect assured that Biden’s swearing-in can be safe. She additionally warned that different acts of MAGA violence and terrorism might goal different states.

“A few of our state legislative places of work are additionally focused,” the Democratic lawmaker stated. “They might have an operation that’s occurring everywhere in the nation at one time, the place they’re being attacked.”

“I believe we’re in a really harmful time within the historical past of this nation,” she added.

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Rep. Waters stated:

No, I’m not assured (that Biden’s inauguration might be safe), primarily based on what we’ve simply skilled. And we have to do a deep investigation about how this occurred and who’s complicit in all of this. However I need to inform you not solely am I not assured in regards to the instances that you’re figuring out that presumably we might have actual issues. I do imagine that the president of the US, Trump, has organized and labored in a approach that even after he’s not serving because the president, that he believes that he’s going to have management over a big inhabitants on this nation that he can use to mainly rule and to mainly confront no matter entity he’d prefer to confront that’s not agreeing with him, flip them on to different teams, and many others. I believe that he intends to train energy even previous his presidency. And so, whether or not you’re speaking a few group of specific dates the place we might have bother, and I additionally assume that, you understand, after they discuss in regards to the seventeenth they usually discuss in regards to the twentieth, that a few of our state legislative places of work are additionally focused. And so they might have an operation that’s occurring everywhere in the nation at one time, the place they’re being attacked. So, I believe we’re in a really harmful time within the historical past of this nation.

New reporting from The New York Times sheds gentle on why Rep. Waters and others are involved about future assaults, significantly in Washington D.C. on inauguration day.

In accordance with the Instances, “One other Protection Division official stated that legislation enforcement companies have been planning for any variety of doable occasions, a few of them horrific. Worst-case situations embrace snipers concentrating on inauguration dignitaries, ‘suicide-type plane’ getting into Washington’s restricted airspace and even remote-powered drones attacking the group.”

“The officers stated they have been significantly nervous about a number of active-shooter conditions flaring up concurrently,” the report added.

Not holding Trump and his enablers accountable might result in a extra lethal assault sooner or later 

The gravest mistake that we as a rustic could make following the occasions of final week is to maneuver on with out holding Donald Trump, his enablers, and his MAGA terrorists accountable.

Failing to ship swift and extreme penalties will solely encourage extra assaults, whether or not that’s at Joe Biden’s inauguration subsequent week or at state capitals all throughout the nation.

Final weeK’s MAGA siege on the U.S. Capitol was one of many darkest days in American historical past. If these in energy don’t maintain the perpetrators and instigators accountable, we’re doomed to see a extra lethal assault – or perhaps a profitable coup – sooner or later.

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