Waters: I ‘wouldn’t waste my time’ having a private conversation with Trump

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) says she has no interest in a heart-to-heart with President Trump.

Waters told The New York Times Magazine in an interview published Wednesday that if she had the opportunity to have a private conversation with Trump, “I would not waste my time.”

The congresswoman, a frequent critic of the Trump administration who has called for the president’s impeachment, said there “have been numerous times when Trump should have been convicted of a crime.”

{mosads}“If Robert Mueller does the investigation that I think he’s going to do, I think he will connect the dots. I think that they’re going to find not only conflict of interest but also obstruction of justice,” Waters said. “I think he’s in for new possibilities of either being charged criminally or, as I think, impeached.”

She added that she doesn’t allow herself to feel pessimistic about the future of the Trump administration.

“I have to get up every morning believing that I and others can make it better, and that no matter how difficult it is, that we will rise to the occasion to force this country to be the democracy it claims to be,” Waters said.

Waters has called for Trump’s impeachment numerous times, saying that former FBI Director James Comey’s memos detailing his conversation with the president helped to “cement” impeachment and hailing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) delay of the August recess as a chance for the House to work on the process.

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) filed an article of impeachment against Trump earlier this month.