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CNN Panel Roundly Condemns Maxine Waters For Comments About Harassing Trump Officials

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A panel on CNN condemned Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters for telling people that they should continue approach and harass members of the Trump administration, on Monday morning.

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“This is beyond overreach,” A.B. Stoddard, a RealClearPolitics editor, said. “It is so outrageous that she is trying to motivate voters on her side to be as divisive as President Trump. I just find it really unbelievable that this is the kind of thing that they’re trying to stoke this mob mentality on the left. It’s just the exact thing that will drive turnout on the other side.”

“If we get to a place as a country where it is open season on anyone if they serve in an administration in public, when mob rule starts being advocated by elected officials, that is bad for everybody,” CNN’s John Avlon said later. “And it is the opposite, as you pointed out, of Michelle Obama’s ‘they go low, we go high.'”

“That was way over the top,” added CNN political analyst Brian Karem.

During a rally on Sunday, Waters encouraged her supporters to continue to harass and berate Trump officials. “If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. Tell them they’re not welcome any more, anywhere!” she said.(RELATED: Maxine Waters: God Is On The Side Of People Driving Trump Officials From Restaurants)

Her comments are in response to both White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders being asked to leave a restaurant and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen being forced out of a restaurant last week. (RELATED: Restaurant Owner Kicks Out Sarah Sanders)