{"id":2473919,"date":"2025-08-12T16:07:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maxine-waters-says-trump-is-leading-us-to-civil-war\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:09:20","slug":"maxine-waters-says-trump-is-leading-us-to-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maxine-waters-says-trump-is-leading-us-to-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxine Waters says Trump is leading US to \u2018civil war\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaxine-waters-says-trump-is-leading-us-to-civil-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2473919&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) warned that President Donald trump&#8217;s policies, especially his refusal to allow congressional members to visit Immigration and customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers, are pushing the United States toward a potential &#8220;civil war.&#8221; Waters, along with fellow California Democrats Brad Sherman, Judy Chu, and Jimmy Gomez, toured the Metropolitan Detention Center and Department of Homeland Security Field Office in Los Angeles after previously being denied entry. During the visit, they observed very few detainees and were unable to speak with them, leading Gomez to accuse ICE of obstructing transparency and oversight. Waters urged close public scrutiny, stating that actions matter more than words.This visit follows Waters&#8217; history of protests against Trump administration policies, including attempts to confront HUD leadership over budget cuts and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-rohrer-leads-pierce-county-council-district-6-race-following-primary-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Republican Rohrer leads Pierce County Council District 6 race following primary - Washington Examiner\">affordable housing issues<\/a>. The lawmakers also claimed that the ICE facility was sanitized before their visit, suggesting an effort to conceal conditions. The White House and Department of Homeland security did not provide immediate comment.  <\/p>\n<div id=\"ld-4686-3758\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:14832835450050406,size:[0, 0],id:\"ld-4686-3758\"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.decide.dev\/_js\/ajs.js\";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,\"script\",\"ld-ajs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Maxine Waters says Trump is leading US to &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-jamie-raskin-predicted-civil-war-conditions-to-come\/\" title=\"Rep. Jamie Raskin Predicted &#039;... Conditions&#039; To Come\">civil war&#038;rsquo<\/a>;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2202077\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3436259\/house-democrats-rally-california-colleagues-combating-trump-la-ice-raids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Maxine Waters<\/a> (D-CA) said President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3496758\/trump-is-right-illegal-aliens-shouldnt-be-counted-in-census\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> is risking a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/civil-war-reenactment-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... reenactment - Washington Examiner\">civil war&#038;rdquo<\/a>; by not allowing Congress members to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3494441\/homeland-security-debunks-jon-ossoff-abuse-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Waters visited the Metropolitan Detention Center and Department of Homeland Security Field Office in Los Angeles, California, on Monday with her colleagues, Reps. Brad Sherman (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), and Jimmy Gomez (D-CA).<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3496800\/calls-generational-change-grow-congressional-democrats-health-crises\/\">Democrats worry they&#8217;re getting too old for office<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3496834\/house-gop-epstein-inquiry-set-clash-trump-doj\/\">House GOP&#8217;s expanding Epstein inquiry could set up clash with Trump DOJ<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3496078\/rosa-delauro-hospitalized-will-undergo-surgery-spinal-stenosis\/\">Rosa DeLauro hospitalized, will undergo surgery for spinal stenosis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>While Waters, Gomez, and Chu were previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3436259\/house-democrats-rally-california-colleagues-combating-trump-la-ice-raids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">denied entry<\/a>, they received a tour this time as part of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ethics-investigation-demanded-after-democrats-storm-ice-prison\/\" title=\"Ethics investigation demanded after Democrats storm ... prison\">congressional oversight authority<\/a>. During their tour, they said they only saw two detainees and could not speak to them. Gomez accused ICE of &ldquo;hiding the truth and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >blocking real oversight&#038;rdquo<\/a>; during a press conference after the tour.<\/p>\n<p>Waters said, &ldquo;Words mean nothing, actions mean everything. Watch this, watch it very closely, ask a lot of questions.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Maxine Waters says President Trump is trying to lead America to &ldquo;civil war&rdquo; with his anti-illegal immigration, violent crime policies. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QrYjieDgey\">pic.twitter.com\/QrYjieDgey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1955004686806712720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Focus those cameras on everything that&rsquo;s going on because this president is trying to lead us into what could be called the civil war,&rdquo; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to the White House and DHS for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Waters has led similar demonstrations since Trump took office. <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">In March, she was denied entry to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/infrastructure\/3336146\/scott-turner-accuses-maxine-waters-of-political-stunt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Housing and Urban Development headquarters<\/a>&nbsp;and led another protest against cuts at the agency,<\/span> with advocates of affordable housing gathering outside its building in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3497387\/california-lawmakers-claim-los-angeles-ice-facility-sanitized-ahead-of-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS CLAIM LOS ANGELES ICE FACILITY WAS &lsquo;SANITIZED&rsquo; AHEAD OF ARRIVAL <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Waters had planned to confront HUD Secretary Scott Turner about the matter, but never got the chance. Instead, Turner called the visit a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/infrastructure\/3336146\/scott-turner-accuses-maxine-waters-of-political-stunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">political stunt<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Before being turned away at HUD&rsquo;s headquarters, Waters led a protest outside the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3314050\/democrats-block-federal-buildings-resistance-doge-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Department of Education<\/a> in D.C, during which she was testy with security guards who would not let her in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2202077\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2202077\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maxine Waters warns Trump&#8217;s actions risk US &#8216;civil war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2473920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AP25036144334466.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[34944,34525,3634],"class_list":["post-2473919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-civil-war","tag-maxine-waters","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AP25036144334466.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473923,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473919\/revisions\/2473923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}