On Saturday’s episode of MSNBC’s The Saturday Show, host Jonathan Capehart interviewed California Democratic Representative Maxine Waters about her experience receiving death threats from a Texas man and predictably hijacked this into an absurd conversation about the threat of violence posed by a second Donald Trump presidency.
Capehart opened with a comment on the rise in threats against lawmakers since 2022, citing a report from Capitol police who “investigated more than 8,000 threats against members of Congress,” Of course, that included members of both parties. Before introducing Waters, he noted that she had attended the trial of a Texas man, sentenced to 33 months in prison and a $10,000 fine, who had made several threats against her life.
Waters said the man had threatened “not only…to put a bullet between my eyes, he was going to cut my…
