Watch: Desperate Maxine Waters’ Attempt to Bait Ben Carson Fails Miserably
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Rep. Maxine Waters grilled Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson on Thursday during the House Financial Services Committee hearing. However, the intention of the hearing was put aside in favor of a baiting scheme Waters obviously thought up in order to try to create dissonance between Carson and President Donald Trump.
Waters wanted to drive a wedge between Carson and the president, and video of the heated exchange proves that she was after one thing and one thing only, to get Carson to admit that he does not agree with the president.
How she went about it was truly shameful. As TheBlaze reported, Waters began by speaking about three tweets Trump had sent out regarding the status of aid in Puerto Rico, she had this to say:
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“I had intended to start to talk about the housing crisis that we have,” Waters started, “but since the president was busy tweeting this morning and you referred to HUD’s role in dealing with the hurricane disasters and what you and the administration are doing, this morning Trump threatened to abandon Puerto Rico recovery efforts.”
Waters then read the tweets in which the president stated that this relief effort could not last “forever,” then set her daggers out towards Carson.
“So you talked about what you, HUD, is doing in cooperation with, I guess, the administration,” Waters said pointedly to Carson. “Do you agree with the president?”
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Wait, What?! Talk about a long drawn out diatribe just to get to the central thesis of her point, which literally has nothing to do with anything.
When Carson tried to respond, Waters took him for a wild ride.
See the footage below:
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The way Carson manages to maintain his sincerity, while acting as a living put-down to the California Democrat is truly impressives.
The man is simply unflappable.
Maxine Waters, on the other hand, has seriously lost it. This whole exchange was so clearly a thinly-veiled way to make good on her promise to take Carson’s “A** apart.” It was absolutely shameful. Share this story on Facebook and Twitter and be sure to add your thoughts on Maxine Waters’ baiting of Ben Carson to the comment section below.
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