Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) declared over the weekend that if former President Donald Trump wins re-election that “millions” of people will be threatened and “killings” 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.

“I’m very concerned, not only about my safety and not only about the safety of members of Congress,” she claimed. “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.”

“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,” she continued. “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.”

She claimed that Trump’s words, combined with the January 6 riot, would lead to “more killings” happening.

“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,” she said.

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Robert O’Brien, who served as former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, laid out his vision of what the U.S. needs to do to prevent a war from breaking out with China in the next several years.

O’Brien made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” when asked what another Trump administration would do if China invaded Taiwan.

“It’s called strategic ambiguity,” O’Brien said. “And we don’t tell the Chinese how we’re going to react to their actions. But the key thing is peace through strength. If we have a strong Navy, if we move our soldiers and Marines out of Europe, in Germany, where they’re garrisoned, and put them in Guam and Hawaii and the Philippines, and Australia, where we have Marines already, that sends a strong message to the Chinese not to invade.”

“The key is to deter war, not to fight and win a war, which we need to do if it happens,” he continued. “But we need to deter the Chinese and the Communist Party from – from invading Taiwan in the first place, which we failed to do with Russia in Ukraine. And so strength will deter the Chinese from invading. it’s not talk. It’s how they see our force posture.”

He said that the Marines were perfectly suited to fight in Asia and that they would be a greater deterrent there than in Europe where war has already broken out.

O’Brien said that the U.S. also needed to move a carrier strike group to the region to again send China a message to not invade.

“We need to increase our energy production,” he said, adding that the U.S. also needed to “rebuild our military, rebuild our Navy, get our shipyards producing ships again.”

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