Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) repeatedly demonized successful business owners in an interview during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event on Monday, literally arguing that business owners were lazy slave owners who profit off the backs of minorities who are &#8220;dying&#8221; because the business owners are successful.
Ocasio-Cortez made the extreme remarks when she was asked why successful business owners were &#8220;the enemy of health care.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, you didn’t make those widgets, did you?&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez began. &#8220;Because you employed thousands of people and paid them less than a living wage to make those widgets for you. You didn’t make those widgets.&#8221;
&#8220;You sat on a couch while thousands of people were paid modern day slave wages, and in some cases real slave, real modern-day slavery, uh, depending on where you are in terms of food production,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez claimed. &#8220;You made that money off the backs of undocumented people. You made that money off the backs of black and brown people being paid under a living wage.&#8221;
&#8220;You made that money off the backs of single mothers and all these people who are literally dying because they can’t afford to live and so no one ever makes a billion dollars,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;You take a billion dollars and all of that to say, is that it’s, and I’m not here to villainize and to say that billionaires are inherently morally corrupt – but they are, I mean, I think there is a case, but um, but, it’s not to say that, it’s to say that this system that we live in, life in capitalism, always ends in billionaires. If you don’t do it, someone else will. It’s who decides to make that choice is just kind of up to, you know, circumstance.&#8221;
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AOC on why successful businessmen don’t deserve their wealth: “You didn’t make those widgets! You sat on a couch while thousands of people were paid modern day slave wages, and in some cases real modern-day slavery; you made that money off the backs of undocumented people &#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Y2w3nSfezo">pic.twitter.com/Y2w3nSfezo</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1219370971779555334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez has a history of making wild and largely unsubstantiated claims during this event as she claimed last year that being a billionaire is &#8220;immoral&#8221; and suggested that the world was going to end in 12 years if her radical socialist agenda was not adopted.
“I think the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people, in Gen Z, and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,” Ocasio-Cortez said without evidence. “And your biggest issue, your biggest issue is how are going to pay for it? — and like this is the war, this is our World War II.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> on millennials and social media: &quot;We’re, like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HjhbVyfFN4">pic.twitter.com/HjhbVyfFN4</a>
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Ocasio-Cortez also said that government should dictate how well people are able to live by limiting the success of those who are hard working and successful.
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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY):
-Government should determine how well people live -Wants “moral technology” -People striving to be highly successful is bad -A world that allows billionaires is “immoral” <a href="https://t.co/RyycflBQLa">pic.twitter.com/RyycflBQLa</a>
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“Do we live in a moral world that allows for billionaires?” leftist Ta-Nehisi Coates asked. “Is that a moral outcome in and of itself?”
“No, it’s not,” Ocasio-Cortez responded. “It’s not.”
The Daily Wire also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-snaps-world-could-end-12-years-algorithms-ryan-saavedra">reported</a> at the time that Ocasio-Cortez &#8220;also suggested that the U.S. needed to pay &#8216;reparations&#8217; like Germany did &#8216;after the Holocaust&#8217; if it wants to heal: &#8216;Until America tells the truth about itself, we are not going to heal.'&#8221;
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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggests that the U.S. needs to pay “reparations” like Germany did “after the Holocaust” if it wants to heal: “Until America tells the truth about itself, we are not going to heal” <a href="https://t.co/NlFWwtFH4u">pic.twitter.com/NlFWwtFH4u</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1087631204067684353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  And Bernie Sanders Attend Green New Deal Rally At Howard University

AOC Demonizes Business Owners: They’re Lazy Slave Owners, Employees ‘Literally Dying’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Democratic Socialism

Socialism

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) demanded during an interview on Monday that billionaires give up control of their companies and give up the power that they have earned if they want to be considered &#8220;ethical.&#8221;
“If Jeff Bezos wants to be a good person, you turn Amazon into a worker cooperative,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;You know, like, not what do I do with all of this money that I have created with this unjust system and, if, usually you’re a billionaire that means that you control a massive system.&#8221;
&#8220;It means that you own oil supplies, it means that you control textiles, it means that you have a massive labor force under your control and to be ethical if you’re a billionaire today the thing that you need to do is give up control and power,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;So, I don’t want your money, as much as we want your power.&#8221;
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AOC says she wants this clip getting out there: <a href="https://t.co/qV8sTcxqqM">pic.twitter.com/qV8sTcxqqM</a>
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During the same Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, Ocasio-Cortez repeatedly demonized business owners, declaring that they are lazy slave owners who profit off the backs of their employees who she claimed, without evidence, &#8220;literally dying because they can’t afford to live.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks in response to a question about why she thinks that business owners are the enemy of health care.
&#8220;Well, you didn’t make those widgets, did you?&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez began. &#8220;Because you employed thousands of people and paid them less than a living wage to make those widgets for you. You didn’t make those widgets.&#8221;
&#8220;You sat on a couch while thousands of people were paid modern day slave wages, and in some cases real slave, real modern-day slavery, uh, depending on where you are in terms of food production,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez claimed. &#8220;You made that money off the backs of undocumented people. You made that money off the backs of black and brown people being paid under a living wage.&#8221;
&#8220;You made that money off the backs of single mothers and all these people who are literally dying because they can’t afford to live and so no one ever makes a billion dollars,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;You take a billion dollars and all of that to say, is that it’s, and I’m not here to villainize and to say that billionaires are inherently morally corrupt – but they are, I mean, I think there is a case, but um, but, it’s not to say that, it’s to say that this system that we live in, life in capitalism, always ends in billionaires. If you don’t do it, someone else will. It’s who decides to make that choice is just kind of up to, you know, circumstance.&#8221;
During the same event, Ocasio-Cortez tried to gaslight the audience by falsely claiming that the Democrat party was a conservative party and that it was not a leftist party.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t have a left party in the United States,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed. &#8220;The Democratic Party is not a left party. The Democratic Party is a center or center-conservative party. We do not advocate, we can&#8217;t even get a floor vote on Medicare for All, not even a floor vote that gets voted down, we can&#8217;t even get a vote on it. So this is not a party.&#8221;

Women&#8217;s March 2019 &#8211; New York City

Ocasio-Cortez To Billionaires: ‘Give Up Control And Power,’ ‘We Want Your Power’

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made numerous false statements during an interview she gave at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event on Monday, claiming that the Democrat Party is not a &#8220;left&#8221; party and alleging without evidence that the pro-Second Amendment activists in Virginia were waving &#8220;Confederate flags.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, another thing that I&#8217;ve been really thinking and sitting with today is that, there&#8217;s this, um, gun rights protest that&#8217;s happening down in Richmond &#8230; but here&#8217;s the image that has struck with me the most about that, is that when we go out and march for the dignity and for the recognition of the lives of people &#8230; the whole place is surrounded by police in riot gear without a gun in sight,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;And here are all of these people flying Confederate flags with semi-automatic weapons and there&#8217;s almost no police officers at that protest.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s claim is weak at best as the overwhelming majority of images and video that was available online showed no Confederate flags at the rally. The Daily Wire also spoke to over half a dozen activists who attended the rally, all of whom said they did not see a single Confederate flag.
While there is certainly the possibility that a fringe protester may have had a flag that eluded media scrutiny, Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s claim suggested that the flying of Confederate flags was a common occurrence at the rally, which is verifiably false.
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s false claim lined up with what left-wing publications like CNN and MSNBC sought to cast the rally as: a white nationalist event. Yet, the event was completely peaceful, no incidents happened, and fringe groups were rejected.
NBC News, which pushed the false narrative that the protest was a white nationalist event, even later had to admit that it was false in an article <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tense-virginia-rally-gun-rights-supporters-chant-we-will-not-n1118811">titled</a>: “At tense Virginia rally, demonstrators reject extremists, defend law-abiding gun owners.”
The event also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/narrative-fail-minorities-lgbt-community-women-show-up-in-force-at-pro-gun-rally">attracted numerous</a> minorities, women, members of the LGBT community, and Democrats who believed in supporting the Second Amendment.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> contrasts today’s gun rights march in Richmond with protests against Eric Garner’s killing: &quot;Why were there almost no police officers” despite protesters “flying confederate flags and [carrying] semiautamtic weapons”? <a href="https://t.co/JRL9B76EQW">pic.twitter.com/JRL9B76EQW</a>
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Later in the interview, Ocasio-Cortez gas-lighted the audience by falsely claiming that the current Democrat Party is really a &#8220;center-conservative&#8221; party and is &#8220;not a leftist party.&#8221;
&#8220;We don&#8217;t have a left party in the United States,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed. &#8220;The Democratic Party is not a left party. The Democratic Party is a center or center-conservative party. We do not advocate, we can&#8217;t even get a floor vote on Medicare for All, not even a floor vote that gets voted down, we can&#8217;t even get a vote on it. So this is not a party.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez later admitted that there are far-left members of her party that are trying to drag the Democrats even further left.
Even the leftist New York Times editorial board <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/19/opinion/amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-nytimes-endorsement.html">said</a> in its endorsement of two Democrat presidential candidates this week that the current field of Democrats that are running in 2020 are “the most” far-left “in decades on issues like health care, the economy, and government’s allocations of resources.”
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AOC: “The Democratic Party is not a left party. The Democratic Party is a center, or a center-conservative party” <a href="https://t.co/6TNAC50nXi">pic.twitter.com/6TNAC50nXi</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1219365820213669896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Boston Mayor, Activists Rally To Ask Jeff Flake To Reject Kavanaugh Nomination

AOC GASLIGHTS: Democrats Are ‘Conservative’; Virginia Gun Protesters Had ‘Confederate Flags’

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Italian artist AleXsandro Palombo has been raising awareness about violence against women by creating doctored photos of prominent political figures like Michelle Obama, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Hillary Clinton that make them appear as if they are battered victims.
&#8220;The &#8216;Just Because I am a Woman&#8217; campaign created by AleXsandro Palombo, which is currently on display in Milan, also features altered portraits of German Chancellor  Angela Merkel and French first lady Brigitte Macron,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/violence-against-women-art-campaign">Fox News</a>. &#8220;The posters note that such violence against women does not differ between races, classes or religions.&#8221;
Each poster features a message beneath it that reads, &#8220;I am a victim of domestic abuse. I am paid less. I&#8217;ve experienced genital mutilation. I do not have the right to dress as I want. I can&#8217;t decide who I&#8217;m going to marry. I was raped.&#8221;
Speaking with the BBC, Palombo said he created the posters &#8220;to illustrate the drama that affects millions of women throughout the world &#8230; with the aim of denouncing, raising awareness and obtaining a real response from institutions and politics.&#8221;
Palombo previously used the famous faces of Kim Kardashian and Angelina Jolie back in 2015 to highlight violence against women. “No woman is immune from domestic abuse,&#8221; the posters read.
Palombo gave no indication that the choice of certain female figures were meant as a political statement beyond raising awareness about violence against women. He also previously created campaigns such as Disabled Disney Princesses and The Simpsons Go To Auschwitz. Here is one such example:
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According to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/intimatepartnerviolence/index.html">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> (CDC), roughly 1 in 4 women and 1 in 10 men experience domestic violence each year. Below is an excerpt from the CDC&#8217;s report on &#8220;intimate partner violence&#8221; in the U.S.:
<blockquote>Intimate partner violence (IPV) is abuse or aggression that occurs in a close relationship. “Intimate partner” refers to both current and former spouses and dating partners. IPV can vary in how often it happens and how severe it is. It can range from one episode of violence that could have lasting impact to chronic and severe episodes over multiple years.
IPV is common.  It affects millions of people in the United States each year. Data from CDC’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) indicate:
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<li>About 1 in 4 women and nearly 1 in 10 men have experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime and reported some form of IPV-related impact.</li>
<li>Over 43 million women and 38 million men experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime.</li>
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IPV is a significant public health issue that has many individual and societal costs. About 41% of female IPV survivors and 14% of male IPV survivors experience some form of physical injury related to IPV. IPV can also extend beyond physical injury and result in death. Data from U.S. crime reports suggest that 16% (about 1 in 6) of homicide victims are killed by an intimate partner. The reports also found that nearly half of female homicide victims in the U.S. are killed by a current or former male intimate partner.</blockquote>
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Violence Against Women Campaign Features Doctored Photos Of Hillary Clinton, AOC, Michelle Obama As Battered Victims

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is planning to cheat her fellow Democratic candidates out of thousands of campaign dollars over a feud with &#8220;establishment&#8221; Democrats who refuse to allow progressives to dictate the future of the party, but the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee isn&#8217;t calling her out on it.
DCCC chairwoman Cheri Bustos appeared on CNN over the weekend and flat-out refused to criticize Ocasio-Cortez, even though Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s decision to withhold much-needed funds from the communal campaign fund could put some Democratic candidates at a severe disadvantage.
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CNN host Victor Blackwell asked Bustos a number of times to air her feelings on Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s decision, particularly in light of what Blackwell labeled Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s &#8220;record-breaking&#8221; fundraising numbers &#8212; money she should be sharing with the DCCC&#8217;s entire slate of candidates.
“That&#8217;s always up to individual members so I guess I don&#8217;t think about it one way or another,” Bustos said, instead. “We’re raising record amounts of money from our members.”
Ocasio-Cortez, Bustos added, is “good for the Democratic caucus in the House,” and then shared some lukewarm praise for the Democratic socialist from the New York City boroughs. &#8220;She has a lot of followers,&#8221; Bustos continued. &#8220;I have respect for her. She brings a new voice to Congress.”
Blackwell pointed out that Ocasio-Cortez has outraised even Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who has been on a record-breaking fundraising binge of her own. That didn&#8217;t seem to bother Bustos one bit.
But perhaps the DCCC should actually be concerned. Ocasio-Cortez isn&#8217;t simply keeping her hard-earned cash for herself, instead of sharing it with the Democratic Congressional candidates&#8217; communal fund, as is required of those candidates who raise more than a certain threshold. She&#8217;s funding her own progressive rival to the organization, in an effort to unseat the moderate Democrats the DCCC typically bankrolls, even in districts where a far-left challenger won&#8217;t do well in the general election against a Republican.
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s first significant donation, for example, went to Marie Newman, a far-left progressive who waged a primary challenge against the final remaining pro-life Democrat in Congress, Rep. Dan Lipinksi (D-IL). Lipinski&#8217;s district is only nominally Democratic, and Lipinski regularly retains his seat by a wide margin &#8212; and that&#8217;s if he even has a Republican challenger. Past efforts to unseat Lipinski have met with abject failure, and Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s $18,000 was likely wasted.
The point is, it seems, to drive home the idea that the DCCC represents the past, and to punish the DCCC for &#8220;blacklisting&#8221; certain progressive organizations from its lists of preferred vendors, even if progressive candidates aren&#8217;t getting elected.
&#8220;One, I don’t agree with the policy around blacklisting groups that help progressive candidates,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter after meeting with a windfall of criticism. “I think we need to evolve as a party and make room for that.”
“I want to help frontline members by putting that money straight into their pocket,&#8221; she added.
The DCCC blacklist, though, isn&#8217;t about progressives specifically. The organization refuses to bankroll any group working to unseat a Democratic Member of Congress, from the left or from the right.
&#8220;The core mission of the DCCC is electing House Democrats, which includes supporting and protecting incumbents,&#8221; according to the group. &#8220;To that end, the DCCC will not conduct business with, nor recommend to any of its targeted campaigns, any consultant that works with an opponent of a sitting Member of the House Democratic Caucus.&#8221;

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WATCH: The DCCC Won&#8217;t Criticize Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez For Failing To Pay Her Dues

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has drawn continued scorn from her own party as she reportedly refuses to pay party dues to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and is instead redirecting those funds to other far-left candidates like herself.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-riles-dems-by-refusing-to-pay-party-dues-bankrolling-her-colleagues-opponents">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Their gripe is that Ocasio-Cortez hasn’t given any money to the DCCC, the party arm with the sole job of electing Democrats to the House. Records obtained by Fox News show the New York Democrat has failed to pay any of her $250,000 in “dues” to the DCCC.
Her goose egg of a contribution is no accident. Ocasio-Cortez says she has beef with the DCCC and she&#8217;ll withhold her money in protest of how the Democratic Party won&#8217;t back insurgent progressive primary candidates, like herself, in the name of protecting incumbents.</blockquote>
“Sometimes the question comes: &#8216;Do you want to be in a majority or do you want to be in the minority?&#8217;” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) told Fox News, when asked about Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s refusal to pay up. “And do you want to be part of a team?&#8221;
&#8220;DCCC dues are about supporting others because you want to be part of the team,&#8221; Meeks said. &#8220;The goal is to be in the majority. And the goal is, when you are on a team I would think, to respect individuals whose districts are different than yours.&#8221;
Another Democrat source spoke in more candid terms: “Deadbeat Cortez should pay her bills. She’s always whining about people paying their fair share, and here she is leaving her friends with the bill.”
“For me personally, I’m not paying [DCCC] dues,” Ocasio-Cortez said, claiming that she was holding out for a “myriad of reasons.”
Ocasio-Cortez, who recently <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/opinions/aoc-biden-democratic-party-harrop/index.html">suggested</a> that she was so extreme that she would not be in the same party as Joe Biden if they were in a foreign country, has long angered many in her own party.
In July, Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO) blasted Ocasio-Cortez &#8220;for suggesting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was targeting her because Pelosi was racist, saying that it shows &#8216;how weak&#8217; Ocasio-Cortez’s &#8216;argument is,'&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-democrats-turn-ocasio-cortez-and-her-chief-ryan-saavedra">reported</a>.
“What a weak argument, because you can’t get your way and because you’re getting pushback you resort to using the race card? Unbelievable. That’s unbelievable to me,” Clay <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/452671-democratic-lawmaker-unloads-on-ocasio-cortez-chief-of-staff-for-using-the-race">said</a>. “I could care less. I could really care less. I agree with the Speaker. Four people, four votes out of 240 people, who cares.”
“It shows you how weak their argument is when they have to resort and direct racist accusations toward Speaker Pelosi,&#8221; Clay continued, adding, &#8220;it’s very disappointing to me.&#8221;
Shortly after Clay&#8217;s comments, The House Democrats slammed Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s then-chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti, who <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/aocs-chief-of-staff-worships-a-servant-of-nazism-and-imperial-japan">seems to have a soft spot for followers of Adolf Hitler</a>, over bigoted remarks that he made toward fellow Democrats.
&#8220;I think the point still stands. I don’t think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system,&#8221; Chakrabarti wrote. &#8220;And the same could even be said of the Southern Democrats. I don’t believe Sharice is a racist person, but her votes are showing her to enable a racist system.&#8221;
House Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-democrats-nuke-aocs-chief-staff-twitter-ryan-saavedra">wrote</a>: “Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color? Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice. She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue. Keep Her Name Out Of Your Mouth.”

‘DEADBEAT CORTEZ’: Democrats Unload On AOC For Not Paying Her ‘Fair Share’ Of Party Dues

President Donald Trump targeted numerous Democrat opponents in a wide ranging interview that aired on Fox News on Friday evening, hitting members of the far-left &#8220;Squad,&#8221; top Democrat leaders, and Democrat presidential candidates.
The following are Trump&#8217;s top zingers against his Democrat opponents from his interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham:
1. Trump suggested that Rep. Adam Schiff (CA) would have leaked information to the media, if given the opportunity, that the Trump administration was preparing to take out Qassem Soleimani:
<blockquote>INGRAHAM: Are you worried that the Democrats can’t be trusted with classified information? Because that’s kind of what it sounded like when Pence gave that interview and talked about sources and methods the other day.
TRUMP: I am worried about it, certainly. I am worried about it. Can you imagine? Here we are, split-second timing, executed &#8212; like nobody’s seen in many, many years &#8212; on Soleimani? Can you imagine they want us to call out and speak to crooked corrupt politician Adam Schiff?
Oh, Adam, we have somebody that we’ve been trying to get for a long time. We have a shot at him right now. Could we meet so that we can get your approval, Adam Schiff? And he’d say, well, let’s do it in a couple of days. Oh, OK, let’s wait a couple (ph) &#8212; it doesn’t work that way, number one.
Number two, they leak. Anything we give will be leaked immediately. You’ll see breaking news, we’re about to attack in 25 minutes or do something. And by the way, I’m not somebody that wants to attack. I probably could’ve attacked 5 times, 10 times having to do with Iran. I’ve been very guarded because I don’t want to do that.</blockquote>
2. Trump slammed far-left Reps. Ilhan Omar (MN), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), and Rashida Tlaib (MI) over their anti-Semitism and took a special shot at Ocasio-Cortez over her general lack of knowledge:
<blockquote>INGRAHAM: Ilhan Omar I think said today that this is akin to economic warfare against Iran, even though she supports sanctions against Israel.
TRUMP:  Yes. She hates Israel. She hates Jewish people. And you just have to take a look at her rhetoric.
It’s incredible what’s happened to the Democrats in Congress. They used to be supportive of Israel. Today they are supportive of her and Tlaib. That’s another real winner, Tlaib, and AOC who knows nothing.
AOC knows nothing. Poor student, poor everything and then she comes and she talks about the Green New Deal and all these poor fools. Say, oh, isn’t it wonderful? Isn’t it wonderful?
But as I said last night in Ohio, I don’t like talking about the Green New Deal. It’s too early. I want to save it for about two weeks before because they may change their mind.</blockquote>
3. Trump hammered former President Barack Obama, saying that the billions that he gave Iran was a major catalyst for an escalation in their global terrorism campaigns. Trump also hit former Secretary of State John Kerry, saying that he violated the Logan Act, which criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized American citizens with foreign governments having a dispute with the United States:
<blockquote>TRUMP: The Iran nuclear deal signed by President Obama gave them $150 billion, and that’s when the real terror started. They took that money and they used it all over the place.
You look at Yemen, you look at all of the things that were happening, including Syria, they were using &#8212; I want to say they gave $1.8 billion in cash &#8212; $1.7 billion, $1.8 billion in cash. Green cash, beautiful, green cash.
You almost say where do they &#8212; how do they have the power to do this? Plane loads of cash &#8212; and instead of Iran saying thank you very much. That’s really nice. Let’s go and get along. Let’s do well. Let’s do deals together. Let’s build buildings in Iran &#8212; they said death to America and they said it when they were signing. When Kerry signed &#8212; and by the way, Kerry violated the Logan Act.
INGRAHAM:  He’s out there &#8212; he’s out there just slamming you &#8212;
TRUMP:  Well, no. He totally violated. This man totally violated the Logan Act with his conversations, OK?
But when Kerry was out there and making the deal, and they have people screaming, “Death to America. Death to America,” I say, who signs a deal while they’re screaming death to America? This was &#8212;
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INGRAHAM:  John Kerry was up there yesterday saying, well, you guys got out of the Iran deal and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s caused all the tension &#8212;
TRUMP:  You know how bad the Iran deal was? The Iran deal, I did a great thing getting out of the Iran deal. They gave them 150 (ph) &#8212; they gave (ph) them the 1.8 billion (ph), forget that. You couldn’t do inspections at the most important locations.
And you know another big thing? They have the right to do ballistic missiles. We couldn’t go into areas and, look, we&#8217;d have to give massive notices. So if they were doing something, they could clean them up. It was ridiculous. But most importantly, it expires.
This is a short-term agreement. And now, once it expired, they have an absolute, clear, unstopped path to have nuclear weapons, unstopped. In a very short period of time, the deal that President Obama made with John Kerry, who may be the worst negotiator I&#8217;ve ever seen, that deal expires.
And you know what? Once it expires, you can&#8217;t do what I did, I mean, because they have a deal that says, once it expires, they can do what they want to do. You cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing.</blockquote>
4. Trump slammed Mayor Buttigieg and Rep. Jackie Speier (CA) for falsely suggesting that the United States was somehow responsible for Iran shooting down a passenger plane:
<blockquote>INGRAHAM:  Pete Buttigieg and other Democrats, I &#8212; I predicted this when I talked to Mike Pompeo yesterday, are actually blaming your moves against Iran for the downing of that commercial jetliner in Iran, in Tehran the night of this the strike by Iran to our Iraqi facilities. Your reaction to that charge?
TRUMP:  Well, a couple of people started that and they got hit real fast by a lot of different people, not me. I think it&#8217;s just low life &#8212; look, he&#8217;s not going anywhere, he was a lousy mayor of a place that is not doing well, and Indiana is doing unbelievably well. Indiana, the state had the best year they’ve ever had, thank you very much. But that city was badly run. If you look at what&#8217;s going on &#8212;
INGRAHAM:  Jackie Speier&#8217;s saying&#8211;
TRUMP:  He&#8217;s going nowhere, and she&#8217;s another beauty. I mean, take a look at her past. Check out her past, please.</blockquote>
5. Trump slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) for not achieving much in her role, predicting that she will go down as &#8220;one of the worst Speakers in the history of our country&#8221;:
<blockquote>TRUMP:   I think for the good of the others. Look, Nancy Pelosi will go down as probably the least successful Speaker of the House in the history of our nation. She has done nothing, the only thing she’s done is she finally got done one of the best trade deals our country has ever made to USMCA, that’s with Mexico and Canada &#8212; but I did that.
She doesn’t even know what it says &#8212; she has no idea what it says. She was forced to do that &#8212; you know why? She wouldn’t have done it, but she did nothing. So now she can say I signed something.
She is obsessed with impeachment, she has done nothing. She is going to go down as one of the worst Speakers in the history of our country. Now, in all fairness, she’s hurting our country. She’s very bad for our country.</blockquote>

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‘LOW LIFE’: Trump Pounds Buttigieg, AOC, Omar, Tlaib, Pelosi, Schiff, Kerry, Speier, Obama

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On Thursday, the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) ripped Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), whom PETA’s president gushed was  “a role model for how to live,” for obtaining a purebred French bulldog instead of adopting a dog.
PETA President Ingrid Newkirk stated, “AOC had a chance to set a compassionate, responsible example in the face of the homeless-animal crisis, but instead, she apparently inadvertently contributed to the problem. PETA is urging her supporters not to follow her lead in this case and to stick up for the underdog by choosing to give a lovable mutt a new lease on life.”
Newkirk addressed Ocasio-Cortez in a letter in which she <a href="https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/aocs-purebred-puppy-purchase-prompts-peta-pushback/">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>Dear Ms. Ocasio-Cortez,
We really couldn’t believe our eyes, because you are a role model for how to live, so we understand that you just didn’t realize what you were doing in this case—you couldn’t have. With the millions of homeless dogs out there, you apparently chose to buy a purebred puppy instead of adopting one from an animal shelter. Right this minute, on Petfinder alone, there are more than 110,000 dogs—including French bulldogs—who need homes. Animal shelters are bursting at the seams with hundreds of thousands more, many of whom will be “put to sleep” for lack of a home.
French bulldogs are inbred in order to produce “breed-specific traits,” which cause health problems that many people who will be influenced by your purchase won’t be able to afford to address. They are particularly at risk because their “cute” features plague them with a lifetime of breathing problems (you may have seen the media uproar this week after a <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/06/andy-richter-shares-mri-of-pals-pug-social-media-freaks-out/">disturbing photo of a pug’s MRI went viral</a>), ear and eye infections, skin irritation, a weak stomach, and other issues—all “man-made.”
Please, please, visit any NYC Animal Care &amp; Control shelter to see the rows and rows of animals desperately awaiting homes. On behalf of the more than 6 million lost, abandoned, or unwanted dogs and cats who enter shelters every year and the people who care for them, we’re asking that you please be a part of the solution to ending the cat- and dog-overpopulation crisis and consider setting the right example for your millions of followers by adopting a mutt and encouraging them to do the same. Not only will you be saving another dog’s life, the new dog will also provide your puppy with the companionship he desperately needs as your busy schedule takes you around the country.
We’re also sending you a copy of the book Dogs Hate Crates, which explains why crate training is not humane or effective.</blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez had announced that she had obtained her French bulldog on Instagram; she also mentioned that she was crate-training her dog, as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/aoc-ocasio-cortez-peta-purebread-french-bull-dog-shelter-rescue">Fox News</a> <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/aoc-ocasio-cortez-peta-purebread-french-bull-dog-shelter-rescue">reported</a>, adding, “She never confirmed the breed or if she purchased her pet from a breeder.” Ocasio-Cortez wrote, “He’s good about his crate when we are right next to it, but he’s such a velcro pup that at night he whimpers if he’s not right next to us. We’re working on it!”
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With millions of dogs, including Frenchies, homeless in shelter cages waiting for homes, <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>’s choice to publicize getting a purebred puppy is disappointing. As a person who fights for justice, we doubt she could’ve realized the implications.
Adoption is the ONLY option. <a href="https://t.co/CiptDEaZmu">pic.twitter.com/CiptDEaZmu</a>
&mdash; PETA (@peta) <a href="https://twitter.com/peta/status/1215426502847688704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In September 2018 PETA decided to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/peta-mocks-donald-trump-jr-halloween-costume-trump-hank-berrien">mock Donald Trump Jr.</a>, an avid hunter, by creating a Halloween costume of him with blood dripping down his face as a leopard was posed behind him. But Trump Jr. had PETA in his crosshairs and promptly neutered them with a blast of his own.
PETA President Ingrid Newkirk gleefully stated, &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing more frightful than an entitled ghoul who gets his kicks from gunning down wild animals. This Halloween, PETA will help people poke fun at someone who believes that the world and its wildlife are here for him to take.&#8221;
Trump Jr. responded, &#8220;Ironically, there are few orgs in world history that have as much animal blood on their hands as PETA. You hypocrites are literally an animal slaughter factory. In the last 11 years, PETA has killed 29,426 dogs, cats, rabbits, &amp; other domestic animals.&#8221;
In August 2019, PETA <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/20/baltimore-billboard-put-up-peta-calls-jared-kushner-rich-pest/2059743001/">posted a billboard</a> in Baltimore mocking Jared Kushner, showing a cartoon version of him sitting on a stack of money with a rat next to him  and calling Kushner a &#8220;rich pest.&#8221; Newkirk said<a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/its-up-negligent-landlords-to-blame-for-rat-tenants-billboard-claims/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a"> in a statement, </a>“Smart, social, resourceful rats who are just trying to eke out an existence suffer when entitled landlords neglect humane rodent-control measures.&#8221;

House Expected To Vote On Impeachment Of President Trump

PETA Gushes Ocasio-Cortez Is ‘Role Model for How To Live,’ Then Rips Her For Buying A Purebred Dog

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) promoted pro-Iran propaganda from Russian state media on Monday which claimed that the Islamic Republic of Iran does not target civilians, which comes just weeks after the Iranian government murdered 1,500 of its own citizens.
Ocasio-Cortez &#8220;liked&#8221; a tweet from Rania Khalek, a far-left journalist who works for In the Now, who wrote: &#8220;A friend flying into the US says he hasn&#8217;t seen so much security since 9/11. The US is terrified of how Iran will retaliate. Iran won&#8217;t attack civilians, that&#8217;s what al Qaeda does. But it shows this assassination did the opposite of making Americans safer and our leaders know it.&#8221;
When a Twitter user &#8220;likes&#8221; a tweet, the tweet becomes temporarily available to that user&#8217;s followers for a period of time, meaning that Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s millions of followers were likely exposed to the anti-American propaganda she promoted.
Khalek&#8217;s claims that Iran &#8220;won&#8217;t attack civilians&#8221; is laughably false as numerous reports from various news organizations and from the United States government state that Iran killed up to 1,500 of its own citizens during the protests that rocked the country late last year.
The Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/aoc-likes-tweet-from-russian-state-media-claiming-iran-doesnt-target-civilians/">reported</a> that In the Now is &#8220;a company funded by the Russian government that was kicked off Facebook for its pro-Russia propaganda.&#8221;
Khalek &#8220;previously served as an editor for anti-Israel site The Electronic Intifada but resigned after speaking at a pro-Bashar al-Assad conference in Syria,&#8221; the Free Beacon added. &#8220;The extent of Khalek&#8217;s pro-Iran advocacy was on full display in a recent YouTube livestream in which the activist claimed that &#8216;Iran is a country that mostly keeps to itself.&#8217; She also said &#8216;it&#8217;s a really brave country that&#8217;s been essential to keeping the Middle East stable throughout the last several decades.'&#8221;
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AOC liked a tweet saying: &quot;Iran won&#39;t attack civilians.&quot; 
Quick reminder: According to the US State Department, Iran is &quot;the world&#39;s worst state sponsor of terrorism.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/1DppW6Fodl">pic.twitter.com/1DppW6Fodl</a>
&mdash; Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NathanBrandWA/status/1214304873963048965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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During the bloodshed in Iran late last year, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told his officials, “The Islamic Republic is in danger. Do whatever it takes to end it. You have my order.”
&#8220;About 1,500 people were killed during less than two weeks of unrest that started on Nov. 15,&#8221; Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-protests-specialreport-idUSKBN1YR0QR">reported</a>. &#8220;The toll, provided to Reuters by three Iranian interior ministry officials, included at least 17 teenagers and about 400 women as well as some members of the security forces and police.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez responded to the U.S. military killing Iranian terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani by attacking the Trump administration and failing to congratulate the U.S. military on killing the man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers in recent years.
Ocasio-Cortez also promoted information from the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) that falsely claimed that the U.S. government was targeting Iranian-American citizens.
NIAC tweeted, &#8220;URGENT: we are hearing credible reports of detentions at US borders, both of Iranian Americans and permanent residents. We are working to independently verify, coordinating with lawmakers &amp; allies. If you have information please share it directly with us at info@niacouncil.org&#8221;
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URGENT: we are hearing credible reports of detentions at US borders, both of Iranian Americans and permanent residents. We are working to independently verify, coordinating with lawmakers &amp; allies. If you have information please share it directly with us at info@niacouncil.org
&mdash; NIAC (@NIACouncil) <a href="https://twitter.com/NIACouncil/status/1213885371802701825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez retweeted that tweet for all her millions of followers to see.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responded to the false information being promoted by Ocasio-Cortez by stating: &#8220;Social media posts that CBP is detaining Iranian-Americans and refusing their entry into the U.S. because of their country of origin are false. Reports that DHS/CBP has issued a related directive are also false.&#8221;
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Social media posts that CBP is detaining Iranian-Americans and refusing their entry into the U.S. because of their country of origin are false. Reports that DHS/CBP has issued a related directive are also false.
&mdash; CBP (@CBP) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBP/status/1213951246463328256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez Promotes Pro-Iran Propaganda From Russian State Media On Twitter

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Two members of the progressive &#8220;squad,&#8221; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), were quick to condemn President Donald Trump for potential &#8220;war crimes&#8221; Saturday night after the president threatened 52 possible targets in and around Iran, including what he called &#8220;cultural sites.&#8221;
The pair, of course, were not so quick to condemn Iran or slain Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, the architect of hundreds of deaths and maimings across the Middle East.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump addressed a response to Iranian threats against American military sites abroad, warning that the U.S. government had compiled a list of approximately 52 potential targets for a response attack &#8212; a callback to the 52 American hostages taken by Iran back in the late 1970s.
“Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian site (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago),” President Trump tweeted. “Some at a very high level &amp; important to Iran &amp; the Iranian culture, and those targets. and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!”
Trump did not list specific targets, so it is not clear what he means by &#8220;important to Iran and Iranian culture.&#8221; That didn&#8217;t stop Ocasio-Cortez, of course, from immediately accusing the president of plotting &#8220;war crimes.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a war crime,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. &#8220;Threatening to target and kill innocent families, women and children &#8212; which is what you’re doing by targeting cultural sites &#8212; does not make you a &#8216;tough guy.&#8217; It does not make you &#8216;strategic.&#8217; It makes you a monster.&#8221;
Omar was not far behind, also accusing Trump of &#8220;war crimes.&#8221;
&#8220;The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes on Twitter,&#8221; Omar tweeted. &#8220;God help us all!&#8221;
Neither followed up with any definition of a &#8220;war crime,&#8221; so its not clear to what, in fact, either is referring. The United Nations does condemn attacks on cultural sites, particularly those protected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), but Ocasio-Cortez seemed to be prematurely condemning Trump for targeting &#8220;women and children,&#8221; something the president has not done and likely would not do.
One commentator even pointed out that Ocasio-Cortez seemed to be pulling her definition of &#8220;war crimes&#8221; from thin air: &#8220;This is a language crime. Making up your own standards for already existing concepts and claiming people violated them &#8212; and then not even meeting your own made-up standards &#8212; does not make you a &#8216;smart person.&#8217; It does not make you &#8216;brave.&#8217; It makes you a dork.&#8221;
Omar followed up by demanding that Congress be given control over further operations.
&#8220;This is a major test for our country,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;Will we allow decades of executive overreach and militarism to continue? Or will Congress step in and perform our Constitutional role to stop a war? The world is watching.&#8221;
The president does have the authority to launch a strategic military strike to prevent or contain an imminent threat, and the White House has repeatedly argued, since Friday, that Soleimani was plotting savage attacks across the Middle East and, particularly, in Iraq. To perhaps no one&#8217;s surprise, both Ocasio-Cortez and Omar opposed Friday&#8217;s strike. Omar called the incident an &#8220;assassination.&#8221;

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar Accuse President Trump Of Plotting &#8216;War Crimes&#8217; Over List Of Iranian Targets

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) responded to the U.S. military killing top terrorist targets in Iraq on Thursday by ignoring the facts of the situation and going all in to stop the Trump administration from further targeting enemies of the United States that have killed Americans.
&#8220;Last night the President engaged in what is widely being recognized as an act of war against Iran, one that now risks the lives of millions of innocent people,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. &#8220;Now is the moment to prevent war &amp; protect innocent people &#8211; the question for many is how, publicly &amp; Congressionally.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s remarks come after the U.S. military used an MQ-9 Reaper drone to fire missiles on a convoy that was leaving Baghdad International Airport. The strike netted the deaths of Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, and top Iraqi paramilitary commander Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, who headed the Iranian-linked Popular Mobilization Forces.
&#8220;Right now is the moment to decide if you are pro-peace or not. The cheerleaders of war, removed from its true cost, will gladly convince you that up is down &#8211; just as they did in Iraq in ‘03. But war does not establish peace. War does not create security. War endangers us all,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;War advocates start off saying &#8216;we all want peace, but&#8230;&#8217; or &#8216;it’s too late&#8230;&#8217; &amp; frame a pro-peace agenda as naïve to realpolitik. Don’t give into this gaslighting. The same folks selling us Iraq and selling us this latest provocation of violence. We cannot repeat this cycle.&#8221;
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War advocates start off saying “we all want peace, but&#8230;” or “it’s too late&#8230;” &amp; frame a pro-peace agenda as naïve to realpolitik.
Don’t give into this gaslighting. The same folks selling us Iraq and selling us this latest provocation of violence. We cannot repeat this cycle.
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1213186386607689729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez completely ignored facts related to why the Trump administration decided to kill Soleimani, which have been confirmed by President Donald Trump, the Department of State, and the Department of Defense.
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<li>Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-delivers-powerful-remarks-on-killing-terrorist-at-press-conference">said</a>: “The United States military successfully executed a flawless precision strike that killed the #1 terrorist anywhere in the world, Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel, but we caught him in the act and terminated him. &#8230; For years the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its ruthless Quds force under Soleimani’s leadership has targeted, injured, and murdered murder hundreds of American civilians and servicemen. &#8230; Soleimani made the death of innocent people his sick passion, contributing to terrorist plots as far as way as New Delhi and London. &#8230; Recently Soleimani led the brutal representation of protesters in Iran where more than 1,000 innocent civilians were tortured and killed by their own government.&#8221;</li>
<li>The Department of Defense <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-responds-to-u-s-military-killing-2-top-iranian-military-leaders-involved-in-terrorists">said</a>: &#8220;General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region. General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more. He had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months – including the attack on December 27th – culminating in the death and wounding of additional American and Iraqi personnel. General Soleimani also approved the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that took place this week.&#8221;</li>
<li>The Department of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-im-outraged-trump-killed-iranian-terrorist-who-killed-hundreds-of-americans">said</a>: &#8220;We can confirm that in the past several days, General Soleimani had been traveling in the Middle East coordinating further imminent large-scale attacks against U.S. diplomats and service members. These threats were highly credible and the intelligence is sound. General Soleimani’s travel also violated the ban imposed by the United Nations Security Council. Recent orders given by General Soleimani dramatically escalated Iran’s campaign of violence and terrorism against Americans and American interests in the Middle East. He orchestrated a series of attacks against American forces in Iraq in the past several months, culminating in the rocket attack on December 27, 2019, which resulted in the death of an American citizen, wounded four American service members, and threatened the lives of many more American personnel. General Soleimani also ordered the assault on the American Embassy in Baghdad. General Soleimani continued to command Iranian supported proxies in Iraq, which posed an escalating threat to the lives of Americans.&#8221;</li>
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&#8220;Congress now has a moral and legal obligation to reassert its power to stop this war and protect innocent people from horrific consequences. We have two immediate options: 1. Vote on a War Powers Resolution, which requires Trump to attain Congressional approval,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez concluded. &#8220;2. Reintroduce &amp; vote on @RepRoKhanna’s bipartisan NDAA amendment, which blocks $ offensive action to Iran. This amendment passed the House w/ bipartisan support not long ago, and was later gutted in negotiations. We can bring it back as a standalone bill.&#8221;
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2. Reintroduce &amp; vote on <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRoKhanna?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepRoKhanna</a>’s bipartisan NDAA amendment, which blocks $ offensive action to Iran.
This amendment passed the House w/ bipartisan support not long ago, and was later gutted in negotiations. We can bring it back as a standalone bill.
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1213187491408289795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Holds Green New Deal For Public Housing Town Hall

Ocasio-Cortez Responds To U.S. Killing Qasem Soleimani, Ignores Basic Facts

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may have anticipated a long and prosperous career in Congress, but if the Democrats in New York&#8217;s state legislature have their way, the freshman Member may be out of a job as soon as 2022.
<a href="https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1212077688837394432">According to pollster Frank Luntz</a>, New York is likely to lose a seat in Congress after the 2020 census and Democrats in the state legislature will have to redraw the state&#8217;s Congressional districts as a result. Although there are plenty of places to cut, New York Dems are reportedly eyeing Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s Bronx district for elimination because she&#8217;s been out of sync with state-level Democrats who control the process.
&#8220;New York is expected to lose a House seat after the 2020 Census, and state Democrats are looking to draw out <a class="PrettyLink profile customisable h-card" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/AOC" data-mentioned-user-id="138203134" data-scribe="element:mention">@AOC</a>’s district,&#8221; Luntz wrote on Twitter. He included a link to an article from a local New York City magazine, The City, that suggested the Ocasio-Cortez is doubling down on her efforts to encourage her constituents to fill out the 2020 census so that she can stay in office.
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s main problem is that many of her constituents happen to be &#8220;undocumented&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;non-citzens,&#8221; as The City puts it. The Trump Administration pushed to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census so that they could quantify where illegal immigrants and other undocumented workers were moving to after entering the country. The Administration ultimately dropped that bid when it was clear the change would be tied up in litigation beyond the deadline for the 2020 census questions, but The City points out that illegal immigrants may still be nervous about filling out official government documentation, even if it is an anonymous survey.
&#8220;For Ocasio-Cortez, a full Census count is more than a matter of making sure her district gets all the funds and services it’s due. In a sense, her own political fortunes could hang in the balance,&#8221; the outlet reported in August. &#8220;A review by THE CITY, building on data and analysis by The Texas Tribune, suggests Ocasio-Cortez’ district could be particularly vulnerable to undercount because a little over a quarter of those living there are non-citizens&#8230;That’s a higher percentage than any other congressional district in the state.&#8221;
&#8220;A Census undercount in Ocasio-Cortez’ district and elsewhere in the state could lead to the elimination of congressional districts — potentially setting off politically charged redistricting battles,&#8221; the outlet added.
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/02/09/ocasio-cortez-district-redistricting-2020/">The Intercept pointed out back in February</a>, when rumors began to surface that Ocasio-Cortez could be out of a job as soon as the 10-member districts commission met after the 2020 census, that Ocasio-Cortez isn&#8217;t a typical politician and she doesn&#8217;t play well with her own state party, which ultimately controls which member of the New York delegation to Congress won&#8217;t be returning to work.
&#8220;New York politics are famously insular,&#8221; the Intercept reported, &#8220;with a tight circle controlling major decision-making for years. That began to shift in 2018, not just with Ocasio-Cortez’s victory, but also wins from a number of insurgent candidates against Democrats who had caucused with Republicans in the state Senate.&#8221;
To punish the progressives, New York&#8217;s Democratic establishment might boot the upstart, in other words.
Ocasio-Cortez does have an insurance policy: she won&#8217;t be leaving politics anytime soon, and if she&#8217;s yanked out of the House, she could easily run for Senate, challenging Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), or move to a new district and run there. Her ties to the Bronx are questionable, anyway, and her name recognition is high &#8212; even if her own constituents say she rarely shows up in her own district to listen to their concerns.

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New York Dems Are Redrawing Congressional Districts And It Could Put Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Out Of A Job

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) joined the chorus of Democrats railing against &#8220;billionaire donors&#8221; and moneyed influence in elections on Saturday, attacking South Bend mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg over a recent &#8220;wine cave&#8221; fundraiser held in his honor in California&#8217;s wine country.
There&#8217;s just one problem with Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s newfound hatred of the wealthy and elite: like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who also eschews &#8220;billionaire donors,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez has taken money from mega-donors, including Buttigieg&#8217;s competition for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Tom Steyer.
Warren has been after Buttigieg for weeks over his &#8220;big money donors&#8221; and high-priced fundraisers in an effort to curb her own steep polling decline. Buttigieg has been a darling of left-leaning tech magnates, and did, in fact, reap the rewards of a recent fundraiser in Napa Valley, held in a &#8220;wine cave&#8221; event space at a vineyard that sells bottles in the neighborhood of $300.
But what Warren failed to disclose was that she, too, has been the guest of honor at high-priced fundraisers, and that the money she collected from them &#8212; as recently as 2018 &#8212; is now going to fund her presidential campaign, even though she claims she hasn&#8217;t taken a dime from the wealthy.
Ocasio-Cortez is similarly hypocritical, it seems. <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/26/aoc-isnt-talking-about-billionaire-tom-steyer-donating-to-her-campaign/">According to the New York Post</a>, Ocasio-Cortez made the maximum allowable contribution &#8212; $2,700 &#8212; to Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s own campaign in 2018, meaning she, too, is funded by at least one billionaire. Steyer made the donation through his family LLC.
Steyer doesn&#8217;t deny his support for Ocasio-Cortez and his representative told the Post he was happy to give to the &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; co-author in order to support the freshman Congresswoman&#8217;s commitment to halting global climate change.
&#8220;Tom’s proud to support Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez, a champion for working families in the Bronx and all across our country,&#8221; his spokesperson told the Post. “She’s a leader in the fight to make the wealthy pay their fair share, provide a living wage for all workers, and pass a Green New Deal that combats climate change and helps reinvent the American economy.”
Steyer, of course, is a bit of a walking irony. The billionaire made his money by investing, in part, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-2020-tom-steyer-hedge-fund-billionaire-20190711-story.html">in foreign fossil fuel companies and private prisons</a> through his hedge fund, Farallon Capital &#8212; two things the far-left Ocasio-Cortez has expressed severe opposition to. And when it comes to bankrolling political campaigns, Steyer is, quite literally, second to no one. Steyer, who, himself, rails against &#8220;corporate influence&#8221; and &#8220;billionaires&#8221; has donated <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2019/12/04/tom-steyer-contributed-23987925-liberals-dwarfs-top-15">a staggering $23 million</a> to Democratic campaigns, including his own, in 2019, easily dwarfing the next top 14 political donors (including perennial leftist bogeymen, the Koch brothers).
&#8220;Steyer, a consistent mega-donor to Democrats cycle after cycle, is leading efforts to impeach President Donald Trump and to combat climate change by pumping millions of dollars into races and advertising efforts through his PAC, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00658526&amp;cycle=2018">Need to Impeach</a>, and nonprofit organization NextGen America,&#8221; a<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/07/tom-steyer-enters-2020presidential-field/">ccording to Open Secrets</a>. &#8220;He leads every other liberal donor, including Michael Bloomberg and George Soros, <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQzO_X4OXi2BsA1wqmd0GwszadDPWFLZhnrXQB5osyf3hmJFLb0OmlJB_daEAq2RZFgrsPyUfZI6AWE/pubhtml">contributing almost $248 million</a> cumulatively to candidates, PACs and other political organizations. Much of that cash goes toward PACs and organizations that spend money independently of candidates, including attack ads on Republicans.&#8221;
Most of that money has gone to two of Steyer&#8217;s own priorities: anti-climate change legislation and impeaching President Donald Trump. If his campaign is also considered, he&#8217;s donated well over $70 million;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/candidate?id=N00044966"> Open Secrets says he&#8217;s self-financed his bid</a> for the presidency to the tune of nearly $50 million (and, technically, that&#8217;s a billionaire trying to influence Federal policy).

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rails About Billionaire Donors, Forgets She Took Cash From Dem Billionaire Tom Steyer

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has spent a lot of time repeatedly demonizing billionaires and attacking other Democrats for accepting money from billionaires since entering politics.
However, Ocasio-Cortez  is now under fire for once again being a hypocrite as FEC records show that Ocasio-Cortez accepted $2,700, the maximum a person can donate to a campaign, from billionaire Tom Steyer — who is now a Democrat presidential candidate — in August 2018.
&#8220;Steyer, a longtime Democratic donor who has largely funded the majority of his presidential campaign, donated $2,700 to the Queens representative’s campaign on August 29, 2018, according to Open Secrets,&#8221; The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/26/aoc-isnt-talking-about-billionaire-tom-steyer-donating-to-her-campaign/">reported</a>. &#8220;The donation was made through the former hedge fund manager’s family office, Fahr LLC, prior to his July 2019 announcement that he would seek the Democratic nomination.&#8221;
The revelation comes as the far-left 30-year-old fanatical politician campaigns for fellow socialist Bernie Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president after failing in 2016.
At a recent rally for Sanders in California, Ocasio-Cortez attacked Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, who is also far-left, for dismissing &#8220;purity tests.&#8221;
“For anyone who accuses us for instituting purity tests — it’s called having values,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “It’s called giving a damn. It’s called having standards for your conduct to not be funded by billionaires but to be funded by the people.”
Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly attacked Republicans on Twitter, claiming they are &#8220;lapdogs for billionaires&#8221; and has claimed that billionaires &#8220;should not exist.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez frequently does not practice what she preaches as there are numerous examples of her being a hypocrite in just her first year in office.
The Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/poor-people-not-allowed-in-aocs-luxury-apartment-complex">reported</a> in February:
<blockquote>The freshman congresswoman, a self-described socialist, campaigned on a platform to expand affordable housing, and her controversial Green New Deal proposal promises “Safe, affordable, adequate housing” for all.
But Ocasio-Cortez’s new building — built by leading D.C. developer WC Smith — is part of a luxury complex whose owners specifically do not offer affordable units under Washington, D.C.’s Affordable Dwelling Units program. &#8230;
&#8230;Ocasio-Cortez &#8230; repeatedly criticized luxury real estate developers during her campaign, claiming that their buildings hiked up rent prices and pushed low-income residents out of their neighborhoods.</blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez also judges Republicans and Democrats by different standards, which was evident when she immediately jumped on the Democrats&#8217; smear campaign of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh but then completely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ocasio-cortez-responds-justin-fairfax-ryan-saavedra">ignored</a> allegations against Virginia Democrat Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax.
Ocasio-Cortez, who had a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meltdown-ocasio-cortez-explodes-after-fact-check-ryan-saavedra">meltdown</a> when she was momentarily held to the same standard as President Donald Trump by fact-checkers, also does not vote in accordance with her rhetoric, which is often dishonest and extreme.
In June, CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper slammed Ocasio-Cortez, who had been bemoaning the living conditions for illegal aliens on the border, for not voting for sending any money to the facilities to improve conditions for the illegal aliens.
“By opposing both bills, aren’t you just ultimately depriving these kids of housing facilities that they need?” Tapper pressed.
Ocasio-Cortez, who had falsely accused the Trump administration of operating concentration camps on the southern border, responded by saying that she &#8220;needed to send a message.&#8221;
This report has been updated to include additional information.

AOC Attacks Democrats For Accepting Money From Billionaires. She Did The Same Thing.

Campaigning with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in Las Vegas, Nevada, Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told the crowd she&#8217;d be honored to be the Vermont senator&#8217;s running mate if he manages to snag the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
“It’d be an honor to be vice president,” Ocasio-Cortez told Telemundo in a wide-ranging pre-Christmas interview.
She later admitted, though that, “I can’t because I’m not old enough.”
Ocasio-Cortez just turned 30 years old and is five years short of the age threshold set by the Constitution to hold the office of President. All nominees to the office as well as their running mates must be 35 years old by election day to qualify to hold a spot on a presidential ticket.
The Telemundo interview yielded a number of strange quotes from Ocasio-Cortez, including her observation that President Donald Trump is &#8220;afraid of strong women&#8221; &#8212; his White House staff roster, which features a number of prominent female senior aides seems to speak differently on the subject.
Ocasio-Cortez formally endorsed Sanders earlier this year, and told Telemundo that she&#8217;s been a Sanders supporter since at least 2016: &#8220;I was a community organizer in the Bronx for Sen. Sanders during the last presidential campaign. That was my first experience, organizing right there in the street for an election.”
“Before that, I did community work in education, with the Latino community and with the National Hispanic Institute, but that was my first time organizing for an election. It was an experience that I will never forget,” she added. “It was an important part of my experience when I decided to run for Congress. I learned that there was another way of doing politics here in the U.S.”
The Sanders campaign activated Ocasio-Cortez for the senator&#8217;s Nevada appearances, in the hopes that the Spanish-speaking New York Rep can motivate the state&#8217;s fast-growing bloc of Latino voters to commit to voting for the Democratic socialist in that state&#8217;s February cacuses (Sanders is currently running behind former Vice President Joe Biden and is either tied with or just slightly ahead of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)). Ocasio-Cortez did her townhall, and the subsequent Telemundo interview, mostly in Spanish.
Democrats and left-leaning political operatives have mentioned &#8220;adjusting&#8221; the Constitutional requirements for the office of the President before, in order to accommodate the slightly-too-young Ocasio-Cortez, but it&#8217;s unlikely such a major change would occur before November of 2020, allowing the young House member to run alongside Sanders.
Ocasio-Cortez aside, according to a few political experts Sanders may be closer to having a running mate than previously thought. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/26/can-bernie-sanders-win-2020-election-president-089636">Politico reported Thursday</a> that Bernie&#8217;s &#8220;resilience&#8221; is winning him fans within the Democratic establishment, especially among those who want neither Biden nor Warren to lead the 2020 ticket.
&#8220;Democratic insiders said they are rethinking Sanders’ bid for a few reasons: First, Warren has recently fallen in national and early state surveys,&#8221; the outlet said. &#8220;Second, Sanders has withstood the ups and downs of the primary, including a heart attack. At the same time, other candidates with once-high expectations, such as Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Beto O’Rourke, have dropped out or languished in single digits in the polls.&#8221;
Biden is still leading the polls nationally and in most early primary states.

Sen. Bernie Sanders And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Housing Green New Deal

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez: &#8216;It Would Be An Honor&#8217; To Be Bernie Sanders&#8217; Veep

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed in an interview with Noticias Telemundo that President Donald Trump was &#8220;afraid&#8221; of &#8220;strong women&#8221; and said that she was not socialist — two claims that do not stand up well to scrutiny.
The interview took place on Sunday in Las Vegas, Nevada, and was conducted entirely in Spanish. Noticias Telemundo provided The Daily Wire a copy of the English version of the transcript.
&#8220;One of the most controversial people with whom you have had exchanges is the president, Donald Trump,&#8221; Noticias Telemundo’s Correspondent Guadalupe Venegas said to Ocasio-Cortez. &#8220;He called you a whack-job on social media. He called you crazy, right?&#8221;
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez responded.
&#8220;What do you think about the president?&#8221; Venegas asked.
&#8220;I think that if the president is calling me crazy, that&#8217;s good,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;It&#8217;d be a problem if he said he agreed with me, because he has a lot of issues. He&#8217;s a racist and he&#8217;s anti-immigrants, but more than that, his administration is very corrupt. I think he has a track record of&#8230; I think he&#8217;s afraid of women, of strong women, of Latina women.&#8221;
The notion that Trump is &#8220;afraid&#8221; of &#8220;strong women&#8221; is not well supported by facts — especially his record when it comes to who he has appointed as senior advisers in his administration.
In March of this year, The Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-has-more-women-as-top-advisers-than-obama-bush-or-clinton">reported</a>:
<blockquote>President Trump, often criticized for his stance toward women, employs more women as senior advisers than former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton did at the similar points in their presidencies.
Given the relative paucity of female senior presidential advisers prior to Clinton, Trump&#8217;s employment of women as key advisers at this early point in his presidency may be higher than any other president&#8217;s in history.
At the beginning of the third year of his first term as president, Trump has seven female top advisers, as compared to five for Obama, three for Bush, and five for Clinton at that point. He had eight as of December 2018, when United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley departed the administration.</blockquote>
Forbes goes even further, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/roslynlayton/2019/06/29/hundreds-of-women-have-lead-roles-in-the-trump-administration-45-more-await-senate-confirmation/#15a2b944250e">reporting</a> over the summer that the Trump administration has tapped approximately 300 women for politically appointed positions, and has appointed dozens of female judges and ambassadors.
Later in Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s interview with Noticias Telemundo, Ocasio-Cortez said that it was more important for Bernie Sanders to win in 2020 than it was for Trump to lose in the election, claiming that Trump has not done anything to fix &#8220;the system&#8221; in the U.S.
&#8220;I want to ask you what you would tell the people who call you a socialist,&#8221; Venegas said. &#8220;For example, people coming from countries that have leftist governments like Venezuela, Nicaragua or Bolivia and who are here today. What would you tell them when they call you a socialist?&#8221;
&#8220;When the president or people call me that, I always say, &#8216;Look at our policies, what we&#8217;re proposing.&#8217; We&#8217;re not advocating total control of the economy,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez claimed. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking about humane economic rights. We&#8217;re talking about education, healthcare, and fair wages. Here in the US, those values are called socialist values, but to me that says a lot about where we are in the US. Basic human rights are considered socialist. But what we see in this country is very different from what we see in others.&#8221;
Numerous op-eds by editorial boards of <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/03/03/socialisms-millennial-fans-dont-even-know-what-it-is/">major</a> <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/06/29/heres-a-one-word-piece-of-advice-for-americas-growing-socialist-left-venezuela/">national</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-green-new-deal-is-about-power-not-the-planet">publications</a> have all described Ocasio-Cortez as a socialist and numerous <a href="https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-radical-front-nationalizing-our">think tanks</a> and <a href="https://fee.org/articles/aocs-green-new-deal-is-a-us-version-of-mao-s-disastrous-great-leap-forward/">research groups</a> have noted that her <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-25/group-sees-ocasio-cortez-s-green-new-deal-costing-93-trillion">$93 trillion</a> &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; is &#8220;a radical front to for nationalizing&#8221; the U.S. economy — which is socialism — and Ocasio-Cortez has already <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-hours-after-introducing-green-new-deal-contradicts-herself-on-governments-role">admitted</a> that her extremist proposal is a &#8220;massive government intervention.&#8221;
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En entrevista con <a href="https://twitter.com/Guadvenegas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Guadvenegas</a> para Noticias Telemundo, <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> aseguró que “no es bueno para un país tan diverso tener un presidente tan intolerante”.
Más información sobre la entrevista👉🏻 <a href="https://t.co/vILWi5vyvc">https://t.co/vILWi5vyvc</a> <a href="https://t.co/N8EkoyAIz7">pic.twitter.com/N8EkoyAIz7</a>
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Ocasio-Cortez: Trump Is ‘Afraid Of Strong Women’; I’m Not A ‘Socialist’

On Wednesday, 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) voted &#8220;present&#8221; on both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. The Democrat was the only representative to avoid a &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;no&#8221; vote by voting present.
&#8220;After doing my due diligence in reviewing the 658-page impeachment report, I came to the conclusion that I could not in good conscience vote either yes or no,&#8221; Gabbard said in a statement following the vote, according to the <a href="https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/12/18/breaking-news/tulsi-gabbard-releases-statement-on-voting-present-for-trump-impeachment/">Star Advertiser</a>.
“I am standing in the center and have decided to vote Present. I could not in good conscience vote against impeachment because I believe President Trump is guilty of wrongdoing,&#8221; the candidate explained. &#8220;I also could not in good conscience vote for impeachment because removal of a sitting president must not be the culmination of a partisan process, fueled by tribal animosities that have so gravely divided our country.&#8221;
Far-left freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) (AOC) took a shot at Gabbard for not taking a side, suggesting it was demonstrative of poor leadership from Gabbard.
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&#8220;Today was very consequential. And to not take a stand one way or another in a day of such grave consequence to this country is quite difficult. We’re sent here to lead,” AOC said, according to <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mattberman/tulsi-gabbard-impeach-trump-present?bftwnews&amp;utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc">BuzzFeed News</a>.
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Gabbard, who voted in support of the impeachment inquiry, introduced a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/766?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22censure+trump%22%5D%7D&amp;s=2&amp;r=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">resolution</a> to censure the president earlier this week, seemingly as some sort of compromise in lieu of formal impeachment.
“Donald Trump has violated public trust. Congress must be unequivocal in denouncing the president’s misconduct and stand up for the American people and our democracy,&#8221; Gabbard&#8217;s statement explained. &#8220;To this end, I have introduced a censure resolution that will send a strong message to this president and future presidents that their abuses of power will not go unchecked, while leaving the question of removing Trump from office to the voters to decide.&#8221;
“I am confident that the American people will decide to deliver a resounding rebuke of President Trump’s innumerable improprieties and abuses,&#8221; added the Democrat. &#8220;And they will express that judgment at the ballot box. That is the way real and lasting change has always occurred in this great country: through the forcefully expressed will of the people.&#8221;
The vote on both articles of impeachment, “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress,&#8221; was expectedly cast along party lines. While not a single Republican voted in support of either article, some Democrats defected from the largely party-line vote.
“On the first article of impeachment, ‘abuse of power,’ Democrats voted 228–2, Republicans voted 0–195, and the one independent member of Congress voted for impeachment,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-multiple-democrats-vote-against-impeachment-only-democrats-vote-for-it">The Daily Wire</a> reported. On “obstruction of Congress,” “Democrats voted 228–3, Republicans voted 0–195, and the one independent member of Congress voted for impeachment.”
President Trump held a rally in Battle Creek, Michigan during the impeachment voting.
“With today’s illegal, unconstitutional and partisan impeachment, House Democrats are declaring their deep hatred and disdain for American Voters,” the president said during the rally. “This lawless and partisan impeachment is a political suicide march for the Democrat Party!”
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A house divided cannot stand. Sadly, our nation is terribly divided. My vote today is a vote for much needed reconciliation and hope that together we can heal our country to usher in a bright future for the American people, our country, and our nation. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Impeachment?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Impeachment</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TulsiGabbard?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TulsiGabbard</a> <a href="https://t.co/BJddNuhkk7">pic.twitter.com/BJddNuhkk7</a>
&mdash; Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1207547421745528833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-issues-perfect-response-following-impeachment-vote?itm_source=parsely-api">SEE IT: Trump Issues Perfect Response Following Impeachment Vote</a>

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

WATCH: Tulsi Gabbard Explains Why She Couldn’t Vote ‘Yes’ On Trump Impeachment. AOC Rips Her.

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The White House has struck again, trolling Democrats in the House and Senate by sending them engraved envelopes with a copy of President Trump’s scathing letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) expressed his consternation on Twitter, writing, “True story: there is a White House staffer going around the Senate delivering to each office, as a package, the incoherent, scathing Pelosi letter AND &#8230; wait for it &#8230; a giant 16&#215;12 White House Christmas card (along with, implausibly, a second smaller Christmas card). What a day. What a day.”
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True story: there is a White House staffer going around the Senate delivering to each office, as a package, the incoherent, scathing Pelosi letter AND&#8230;wait for it&#8230;a giant 16&#215;12 White House Christmas card (along with, implausibly, a second smaller Christmas card).
What a day. <a href="https://t.co/y8gZuQbipl">pic.twitter.com/y8gZuQbipl</a>
&mdash; Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1207391721539227648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded, “They’re coming into the House, too. (No Christmas card here &#8211; but no coal, either).”
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They’re coming into the House, too. (No Christmas card here &#8211; but no coal, either) <a href="https://t.co/gZgnC7vqms">pic.twitter.com/gZgnC7vqms</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1207433919550951425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Murphy answered, “I’m gonna start making that my new Christmas tradition &#8211; send out my Christmas cards with an attached screw-off letter listing all my grievances for the year.”
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I’m gonna start making that my new Christmas tradition &#8211; send out my Christmas cards with an attached screw-off letter listing all my grievances for the year.
&mdash; Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1207443867676614659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In the letter, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-savages-impeachment-hits-pelosi-for-praying-for-him-in-scathing-six-page-letter-more-due-process-in-salem-witch-trials">wrote:</a>
<blockquote>You are the ones interfering in America&#8217;s elections. You are the ones subverting America&#8217;s democracy. You are the ones obstructing justice … This is nothing more than an illegal, partisan attempted coup that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting both. You are not just after me, as president, you are after the entire Republican Party. History will judge you harshly as you proceed with this impeachment charade … have no doubt the American people will hold you and the Democrats fully responsible in the upcoming 2020 election. They will not soon forgive your perversion of justice and abuse of power. … You are offending Americans of faith when you say, &#8220;I pray for the president,&#8221; when you know this statement is not true, unless it is meant in a negative sense. It is a terrible thing you are doing, but you will have to live with it, not I!&#8221;</blockquote>
Pelosi responded by <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1207067562363670528">telling</a> CNN Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a reaction. It&#8217;s ridiculous … I mean, I haven&#8217;t fully read it. We&#8217;ve been working. I&#8217;ve seen the essence of it, and it&#8217;s really sick.&#8221;
Trump has expertly trolled the Democrats before; in July, in a video trolling the “squad” of Democratic far-Left congresswomen Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MA) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), as well as those who would deride people of faith, President Trump released a patriotic video on Twitter featuring a soundtrack of Lee Greenwood’s ”God Bless The USA,” pictures of veterans, military service members, openly patriotic American adults and children, and concluding with the screen emblazoned with the simple message: “America: One ‘Squad’ Under God.”
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GOD BLESS THE USA🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/w6FenobnlR">pic.twitter.com/w6FenobnlR</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1151526698392965123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In June 2018, he targeted them with a video regarding illegal immigration. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32100/watch-trump-trolls-democratic-leaders-over-illegal-ryan-saavedra">The Daily Wire</a> reported, the beginning of the video featured former Democratic President Barack Obama intoning, &#8220;Our immigration system is broken,&#8221; followed by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) saying, &#8220;Illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple.&#8221; That was followed by former Democratic President Bill Clinton asserting, &#8220;All Americans &#8230; not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.&#8221; Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) added, &#8220;People who should be here are those who come legally.&#8221; The climax was left for failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who stated, &#8220;We have to send a clear message. Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn&#8217;t mean the child gets to stay.&#8221;
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Don’t worry, the Republicans, and your President, will fix it! <a href="https://t.co/xsbuPzXbHj">pic.twitter.com/xsbuPzXbHj</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1009536237881847808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2018</a></blockquote>
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H/T <a href="https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/12/19/trolling-master-christmas-package-white-house-staffer-delivered-to-senate-members-triggers-chris-murphy-and-aoc/">Twitchy</a>

President Trump Delivers Remarks On Federal Judicial Confirmation Milestones

Trump Trolls Dems By Sending Them Engraved Envelope With Letter To Pelosi

Chris Murphy

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a former waitress and bartender from Brooklyn who now serves in Congress as a lawmaker, has come up with a new idea: Free everything for everybody.
The self-styled democratic socialist said in a recent speech that there should be a &#8220;guaranteed universality&#8221; for all of the things that people need.
AOC said that &#8220;guaranteed universality&#8221; means &#8220;at the very least, a $15 an hour minimum wage or maybe higher as we introduce things&#8221; is needed. &#8220;It means Medicare for all, or at the very least guaranteed health care as a right. Housing as a right.&#8221;
&#8220;So we have to really say, for the things we depend on to live, we need at bare minimum a public option if not guaranteed universality,&#8221; the 29-year-old lawmaker said.
How to pay for all that free stuff. Not to worry, the international relations and economics major said.
&#8220;So I think in that transition it is worker centered and it invests in jobs and invests in labor. I think that progressive taxation is potentially a component of it,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;It’s not about how are we going to pay for it, it’s how do we want to pay for it,&#8221; she said.
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Ocasio-Cortez: need “guaranteed universality” of anything people depend on<a href="https://t.co/f6lzKfrmxW">https://t.co/f6lzKfrmxW</a> <a href="https://t.co/KMNkIfPNLh">pic.twitter.com/KMNkIfPNLh</a>
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The term &#8220;guaranteed universality&#8221; is reminiscent of a plan that has been deployed in Europe and some Scandinavian countries. &#8220;Universal Basic Income&#8221; provides a set amount — say, $1,000 — per month for all citizens, whether they work or not. That money can be used to buy the necessities of life.
Twitter lit up after AOC&#8217;s brilliant plan.
&#8220;God she is dumb&#8230; free&#8230;.free&#8230;.free. Everything is free and everything is a right. Free housing, how is that going to work? All the strides that Trump has made with the economy and the dems would flush it all down the toilet. It&#8217;s like they never want to win another election!&#8221; wrote on user.
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God she is dumb&#8230;free&#8230;.free&#8230;.free. Everything is free and everything is a right. Free housing,how is that going to work? All the strides that Trump has made with the economy and the dems would flush it all down the toilet. It&#39;s like they never want to win another election!
&mdash; Garrett Sikes (@GarrettSikes2) <a href="https://twitter.com/GarrettSikes2/status/1206717471610298368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.&#8217; &#8211; Thomas Sowell,&#8221; wrote another.
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&quot;The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.&quot; &#8211; Thomas Sowell
&mdash; Morey L (@MoreyL5) <a href="https://twitter.com/MoreyL5/status/1206706270801137664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Yet another replied, and linked to an article headline: &#8220;Harvard study finds increased minimum wages contribute to restaurant failures in California’s Bay Area.&#8221;
&#8220;Two years after this study and hundreds more businesses closing because of the $15/hr min wage, idiots like Ocasio still spew their socialism diarrhea as the solution,&#8221; said the user.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@aoc</a> Two years after this study and hundreds more businesses closing because of the $15/hr min wage, idiots like Ocasio still spew their socialism diarrhea as the solution.<a href="https://t.co/eGUQADsL6d">https://t.co/eGUQADsL6d</a>
&mdash; mltcjl76 (@mltcjl76) <a href="https://twitter.com/mltcjl76/status/1206772366031740928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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AOC keeps coming up with this these really expensive plans. Her so-called &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; would cost as much $93 trillion over 10 years, the American Action Forum determined.
Under the draft plan, Ocasio-Cortez proposes eliminating all fossil-fuel-powered electricity. That would shutter all coal and natural gas power plants across the United States, costing hundred of thousands of jobs. Oh, and she also wants to get rid of all gas-powered cars — in 10 years.
What’s more, the plan calls for a guarantee for every American to have a job, pledging to &#8220;provide all members of our society, across all regions and all communities, the opportunity, training and education to be a full and equal participant in the transition, including through a job guarantee program to assure a living wage job to every person who wants one.&#8221;
According to the draft plan of the Green New Deal, the program also plans to &#8220;mitigate deeply entrenched racial, regional and gender-based inequalities in income and wealth (including, without limitation, ensuring that federal and other investment will be equitably distributed to historically impoverished, low income, deindustrialized or other marginalized communities in such a way that builds wealth and ownership at the community level).&#8221;
In other words, socialism.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-one-should-go-through-this-aoc-complains-about-being-on-government-healthcare">‘No One Should Go Through This’: AOC Complains About Being On Government Healthcare</a>

FREE EVERYTHING! Ocasio-Cortez Wants Federal Government To Give You Everything You ‘Need’

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) meddled in a foreign election on Thursday when she shared a video promoting far-left British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and encouraged people to turn out and vote in the election.
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: &#8220;This video is about the UK, but it might as well have been produced about the United States. The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples’ lives. The only way we change is with a massive surge of *new* voters at the polls. UK, Vote!&#8221;
The video attacks wealthy people in the U.K., Conservatives, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, stating at the end: &#8220;The Conservatives have been in power for 10 years. We can&#8217;t survive another 5. On your side. For the many not the few. Vote Labour 12 December.&#8221;
Washington Examiner Magazine Executive Editor Seth Mandel tweeted out a screenshot of Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s tweet that featured the video from Corbyn&#8217;s official Twitter account:
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HOLY S**T AOC OFFICIALLY ENDORSES JEREMY CORBYN <a href="https://t.co/0F1VZYyIlv">pic.twitter.com/0F1VZYyIlv</a>
&mdash; Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1205146202561482752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;AOC endorsing Corbyn is a major moment, and for all those who cover anything remotely in the orbit of any of this: You will be judged on how you cover it. Just letting you know. This will be a big part of your grade for the semester,&#8221; Mandel added. &#8220;AOC: For the Many, Not the Jew.&#8221;
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AOC: For the Many, Not the Jew
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National Review published a brief <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/jeremy-corbyn-not-a-man-of-the-people/">overview</a> of a few of the examples of anti-Semitism that have been made against Corbyn:
<blockquote>When it comes to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45030552" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">anti-Semitism in the Labour party</a>, the media have fallen for Corbyn’s deception too. Corbyn’s longstanding support for radical causes includes a penchant for Islamist anti-Semites. He invited members of Hamas and Hezbollah to the British Parliament as <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/01/jeremy-corbyn-under-pressure-to-denounce-friends-hamas-and-hezbo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“friends”</a> and was paid perhaps as much as £20,000 (about $27,000 at the time) to appear on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeremy-corbyn-paid-iran-press-tv-tortured-journalist-2016-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Iranian Press TV</a> — the same network that was <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9028435/Britain-bans-Irans-Press-TV-from-airwaves.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">banned</a> in the U.K. for its broadcast of a forced confession by a tortured Iranian journalist. In one appearance Corbyn mused that <a href="https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/corbyn-suspected-hand-of-israel-in-egypt-bombing-during-press-tv-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“the hand of Israel”</a> was involved in a terror attack in Egypt. He traveled to Tunisia in 2014 and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45196409" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">participated in a ceremony</a> honoring terrorists who murdered eleven Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Corbyn also hosted an event at the British Parliament in 2010 <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/jeremy-corbyn-hosted-event-likening-israel-to-nazis-6sb5rqd5x" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">comparing Israel to Nazi Germany</a> (part of a U.K. tour called “Never Again for Anyone — Auschwitz to Gaza”) and attended events by <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/20/jeremy-corbyns-10-year-association-group-denies-holocaust/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Deir Yassin Remembered</a>, a group chaired by Holocaust denier Paul Eisen.</blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez, who has a documented history of anti-Semitism, has repeatedly praised or defended Jeremy Corbyn, Linda Sarsour, and Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s endorsement of Corbyn comes after she falsely accused President Donald Trump of anti-Semitism this week over a video clip where Trump was speaking to a group of supporters at the Israeli American Council and made obvious joking remarks.
&#8220;A lot of you are in the real estate business, because I know you very well, you&#8217;re brutal killers, not nice people at all, but you have to vote for me. You have no choice. You&#8217;re not going to vote for Pocahontas, I can tell you that,&#8221; Trump said as the audience cheered in favor of his remarks. &#8220;You&#8217;re not going to vote for the wealth tax! Yeah, let&#8217;s take 100% of your wealth away, no, no.&#8221;
&#8220;Even if you don&#8217;t like me, and some of you don&#8217;t, some of you I don&#8217;t like at all actually,&#8221; Trump continued as the audience laughed, adding, &#8220;and you&#8217;re going to be my biggest supporters because you&#8217;re going to be out of business in about 15 minutes if they get in.&#8221;
It was obvious that Trump was joking around with a crowd that was politically friendly toward him.
Despite this, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: &#8220;This is outright and atrocious antisemitism coming from the President, and it is dangerous.&#8221;
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This is outright and atrocious antisemitism coming from the President, and it is dangerous. <a href="https://t.co/E21xMrqSsP">https://t.co/E21xMrqSsP</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1204089453502971905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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