Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was in no hurry to condemn Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for her remarks conflating the humanitarian crisis at the border with Nazi-era “concentration camps,” and instead warned Democrats that Republicans may try to pounce on controversial words.
At first, Pelosi, who was the keynote speaker at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Wednesday, tried to pretend she wasn’t privy to Ocasio-Cortez’s questionable history lessons, which commanded hours of back-and-forth on Twitter Wednesday and saw the freshman congresswoman from New York defending claims that migrants being held at the United States’ southern border pending adjudication hearings on their asylum claims were being placed in “concentration camps” not unlike Nazi death camps.
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