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In recent days, Waters has had to cancel speaking events in Alabama and Texas due to death threats and “hostile mail” she has received at her office, including “one very serious death threat.”

This past Saturday, Waters defiantly said to those who want to harm her that they had better “shoot straight because there’s nothing like a wounded animal.”

Tuesday’s latest attack against Waters follows a string of insults Trump has hurled at the congresswoman since the feud began.

Trump has called Waters an “extraordinarily low IQ person,” and the “FACE” of the Democrat Party.

In his tweet, Trump added: “Be careful what you wish for Max” although it’s unclear exactly what he meant.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018

On Tuesday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters, “We try every single day to treat everyone with respect.”

“I think every reasonable person have concluded that the president of the United States of America has advocated violence, he has been divisive, and he has been the one that has caused what we see happening today, where people are trying to push back on his policies,” Waters said at a hearing last week, pushing back against Trump’s narrative.

Waters has long had a reputation for outspoken advocacy on behalf of women, children, and other minorities in her nearly 40 years of public service, according to her Congressional biography.

Waters is well-known for her candid and direct remarks and was one of the first members of Congress to call for Trump’s impeachment.

Last year, Waters made similar rallying calls for protest during an awards ceremony that aired on BET in which she won a “social humanitarian” award.

“Whether it’s the president of the United States of America or anybody in his Cabinet, we will say to them ‘we will resist you.’ We will not allow you to damage this country in the way that you’re doing,” Waters said during her acceptance speech.

Waters said if not for the “love and respect” shown to her by other black women, her Republican counterparts would \"have me believe I’m too black, I’m too confrontational, and that I’m too disrespectful of them.\"

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During a testy hearing last week, a Republican committee chairman chided the congresswoman.

The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican, said those who \"daily promote diversity, I would call upon them to respect diversity of opinion.\"

“I think we all know that words matter,” Hensarling said.

“I also lament, as I look back, that there was a time in America’s history where you could be denied service at a restaurant based on the color of your skin. Now apparently, it’s the color of your voter registration card,” Hensarling said, in a reference to the incident involving Sanders getting kicked out of a Virginia restaurant last month.

Waters, the top Democrat on the committee, didn't take the comments sitting down, but instead called out Hensarling for his apparent hypocrisy, and urged her Republican colleagues to recognize who she characterized as the chief instigator of toxic rhetoric in the current political discourse: Donald Trump.

“Mr. Chairman, if you want to talk about civility, you start with the president of the United States and you implore him not to continue to promote violence, not to continue to promote divisiveness,” Waters said.

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