Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump: Cohen only became a ‘rat’ after FBI 'broke into' office Giuliani indicates Trump Tower Moscow discussions took place up until November 2016 Hillary Clinton writes letter to 8-year-old girl who lost class president to male classmate MORE gave the closing remarks Tuesday's Professional Business Women of California conference in San Francisco, taking a moment to defend both a White House reporter and Democratic lawmaker as examples of the "indignities" facing "women who were simply doing their jobs." 
 
 "Just look at all that’s happened in the last few days to women who were simply doing their jobs," Clinton said. 
 
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 "April Ryan, a respected journalist with unrivaled integrity, was doing her job just this afternoon in the White House press room when she was patronized and cut off trying to ask a question." 
 
 Clinton was referring to an exchange between White House press secretary Sean Spicer and the veteran journalist on Tuesday in which Spicer told Ryan to "stop shaking your head" as she asked a question. 
 
 Spicer accused Ryan, a correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, for pushing an agenda with her questions. 
 
 "April, hold on, it seems like you're hell-bent on trying to make sure that whatever image you want to tell about this White House stays," he said. 
 
 Clinton also referenced Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's comment about Rep. Maxine Waters's (D-Calif.) hair, which he called a “James Brown wig." 
 
 "One of our own California congressmen Maxine Waters was taunted with a racist joke about her hair," Clinton said. "Too many women, especially women of color, have had a lifetime of practice taking precisely these kinds of indignities in stride." 
 
 "But why should we have to? And any woman who thinks this couldn’t be directed at her is living in a dream world." ||||| Several U.S. Democrat leaders had suspicious packaging sent to their offices on Wednesday. 
 
 Both current and former elected officials were targeted including Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder and Rep. Maxine Waters. In regards to Waters, a Maryland mail facility intercepted a package that was headed to the representative's office in Washington while similar makeshift pipe bombs were also found addressed to others. 
 
 In a Blavity Politics exclusive interview on Wednesday, Waters sounded off on finding out she was one of the intended victims. It was also discovered that, later that same day, South Los Angeles postal workers found a suspicious package addressed to the representative. 
 
 In her response, Waters spoke to how President Trump's hateful rhetoric has only helped to incite various hateful attacks that have unfolded since his time in office. 
 
 "I think the president of United States should take responsibility for the kind of violence that we are seeing for the first time in different ways," Waters told Blavity. "I think the president of the United States has been dog-whistling to his constituency, making them believe that their problems are caused by those people over there. And I think they are acting in a way that they think the president wants them to do and the way he wants them to act." 
 
 "[Trump] in his own way really does promote a lot of violence," she added. Trump recently celebrated Montana Congressman Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to assaulting a Guardian reporter last May. 
 
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 Waters has become a target of the right-wing base because of her vocal stance against the Trump administration and its policies. She’s also been leading the fight for impeachment against Trump. 
 
 But when it comes to being threatened, Waters is not one to back down. Earlier this year when Waters responded to threats of right-wingers threatening to shoot her, she said, “if you shoot me you better shoot straight.” 
 
 She delivered that same energy when responding to Wednesday's bomb threats. 
 
 "We must not be intimidated to the point that we stop advocating and protesting for justice," she said. 
 
 The incredibly bold and fearless Waters let us know she's not one to be intimidated. She stated this in 2017 in response to Bill O'Reilly's racist comments when she said: "I am a strong Black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined." 
 
 This time, Waters is serving another reminder. 
 
 "I don’t know whether the bombs are real or not, but we should not crawl under the bed, close the doors, not go out, be afraid to go to rallies," she said. 
 
 "We have to keep to doing what we’re doing in order to make this country right; that’s what I intend to do, and as the young people say, 'I ain’t scared.'" 
 
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– Two women who faced slights at the hands of prominent Republicans on Tuesday were defended by Hillary Clinton, who has experience in the area. Clinton, speaking at the Professional Businesswomen of California conference, decried the "indignities" women have to put up with while "simply doing their jobs," the Hill reports. She was referring to journalist April Ryan and Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters. Ryan was interrupted and told to "stop shaking your head" by Sean Spicer while asking a question at a press conference. Waters was mocked by Bill O'Reilly, who said he was unable to listen to what she was saying because of her "James Brown wig." Both women are black, and Clinton noted that the problem is especially bad for women of color. Her remarks were part of a bigger call for diversity and inclusion in Silicon Valley, according to TechCrunch.