Ocasio-Cortez has accused Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the House Republicans, of being in thrall to QAnon-supporting members of his caucus after his mealy-mouthed response to Greene.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) accused Republican lawmakers of being racists again. In fact, she claimed that there are “legitimate white supremacist sympathizers” among GOP House members. In other news, dogs bark, pigs stink, and
CNN’s Don Lemon isn’t really a journalist.
The socialist lawmaker made the comments during an appearance on
MSNBC on Wednesday evening during a conversation about her experience with the U.S. Capitol riots. She previously stated that she chose to hunker down in a less safe area because the more secure area was occupied by Republican lawmakers. AOC intimated that she was too afraid to hide alongside GOP representatives because she supposedly believed they would harm her since they are white supremacists who hate brown people.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. scorched her Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill Wednesday, accusing them of sympathizing with White supremacists and alleging that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is beholden to QAnon conspiracy theorists.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was sounding the alarm last night on All In With Chris Hayes, saying that the Republican House caucus has now morphed from Trump true believers to outright white supremacists under the leadership of minority leader Kevin McCarthy. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries was on the program last night talking about his family member receiving texts saying, We re coming for you, we re outside your house. How do you understand the nature of the caucus of the Republican party that you serve with right now in the aftermath of this and the vote they took to overturn the election and this desire to, quote, turn the page? Hayes asked.
The University of Florida announced Monday that alumni Linda and Ken McGurn have pledged $2 million to create the McGurn Fellowship Program for Media Integrity and the Fight Against Disinformation.
It will be used to recruit and pay expert lecturers and professors to research and teach the origins and solutions for public disinformation, aiming to boost trust in modern media, society and government, said Dean Laura Rosenbury of the law college.
Eventually, she said, the collaboration hopes to produce policy recommendations for newsrooms and legislatures to maximize faith and the dissemination of accurate information. We ve seen over the last three of four years how disinformation has eroded trust, Rosenbury said. We have to tackle disinformation head on, and the McGurns generous donation will help us do so immediately.