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Would-be assassin lived in town represented by anti-Trump ‘Mad Max’

Americans are learning more about Cole Allen, the gunman who sought to unleash chaos at the White House Corespondents Association dinner, where President Donald Trump and much of the Cabinet were joining the annual gathering of journalists for the first time in this administration.

One key fact: The would-be assassin lived in Torrance, Calif., which is represented by some of the most rabidly anti-Trump members of Congress.

One of them is Democrat Ted Lieu. In 2017, Lieu declared Trump to be an illegitimate president, and even launched a “cloud of illegitimacy clock” that still has its own website, ticking away the seconds of Trump’s presidency.

Another is Democrat Maxine Waters, who appears to be Allen’s representative, based on public information about his address.

Waters was one of the first members of Congress to call for Trump’s impeachment, shouting “Impeach 45!” at rallies, almost as soon as Trump took office.

And in 2018, it was “Mad Max” Waters who launched the current era of aggressive political confrontations when she encouraged Americans to accost Trump administration officials wherever they could be found.

At a rally in Los Angeles, Waters said: “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re........

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