Elected Democratic officials dialed the delusion up to 11 in their shameless defense of the anti-ICE riots that have rocked Los Angeles for the better part of a week — either outright lying or remainig blissfully unaware that stores were looted, cars were incinerated in the streets and cops had to duck bricks, chunks of concrete and Molotov cocktails lobbed by protesters.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on Tuesday made the blatantly false assertion that there was “no violence” happening in Los Angeles during the fiery unrest.
The left-wing 18-term congresswoman told the enormous whopper during a Capitol Hill press conference as she hit out at the Trump administration for deploying thousands of National Guard members and hundreds of active-duty Marines to try to quell the destructive chaos that has engulfed the city for four days and nights.
“Nobody was shot, nobody was killed, get it into your head,” the 86-year-old told reporters with a completely straight face.