In 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned Michael Cohen about Donald Trump. Cohen’s answers eventually led to Letitia James’s fraud lawsuit.
I love that for both of them.
Possibly her contribution was important, but tbh it’s also generally easy to cherry pick records to invent narratives like this.
Ocasio-Cortez again asked Cohen if the former president had ever inflated his assets. “Yes,” Cohen answered.
This fraud was already documented at the time by journalists. Do you call this the “beginning”, then? Also, Cohen was collaborating with authorities. Would the investigation not happen without that testimony?
Although AOC contributed there, this article is rather shallow as it misses the bigger picture where AOC was not in the center in my opinion.
I watched this live and you couldn’t be more obtuse. NO ONE else in the room was following this line of questioning. Sure reporters could have uncovered all of this eventually but she had the presence of mind to know this was under oath so it could move the prosecution along much faster.
Thanks for sharing your personal opinion.
The NYT broke this story around 2017/2018 I’ll try to find the link
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Journalist Craig Unger at least mentioned this in 2018 in his book House of Trump, House of Putin. Likely that book is not the original source on this, so there should be some earlier one.
And nothing happened until AOC did something with Cohen under oath. You guys seem to think those are holding equal weight.
Let’s be clear. A nyt article most of the time doesn’t do shit.
Nah… how do you argue it’s not a coincidence? There are likely hundreds of people who worked hard to make this outcome possible.
Analysis: AOC is being groomed by corrupt DNC insiders and think tanks as the next Obama.
Correct, but not how I think you are framing it.
AOC, one of the 5 not corrupt members of the DNC, but the longer she stays in bed with them, the more fleas she will accumulate.
She is eligible for this Presidential election. She should go for it.
not corrupt
Are you sure about that? 😅
Bernie, AOC, Katie Porter, Ro Khanna, Rashida Tlaib.
Those are the 5 Democrats that I currently trust and believe not to be corrupt.
This, right here. ☝🏼
(Maybe the Presidency would be better off as a quorum. Right after the guillotines get packed away and everyone’s learned once again what treason gets you.)
Do you have any kind of evidence otherwise?
In the weeks leading up to her election:
what is happening in Palestine is a massacre
After election:
MH: You, in the campaign, made one tweet, or made one statement, that referred to a killing by Israeli soldiers of civilians in Gaza and called it a “massacre,” which became a little bit controversial. But I haven’t seen anywhere — what is your position on Israel?
AOC: Well, I believe absolutely in Israel’s right to exist. I am a proponent of a two-state solution. And for me, it’s not — this is not a referendum, I think, on the state of Israel. For me, the lens through which I saw this incident, as an activist, as an organizer, if sixty people were killed in Ferguson, Missouri, if sixty people were killed in the South Bronx — unarmed — if sixty people were killed in Puerto Rico — I just looked at that incident more through . . . through just, as an incident, and to me, it would just be completely unacceptable if that happened on our shores. But I am —
MH: Of course the dynamic there in terms of geopolitics —
AOC: Of course.
MH: And the war in the Middle East is very different than people expressing their First Amendment right to protest.
AOC: Well, yes. But I also think that what people are starting to see at least in the occupation of Palestine is just an increasing crisis of humanitarian condition, and that to me is just where I tend to come from on this issue.
MH: You use the term “the occupation of Palestine”? What did you mean by that?
AOC: Oh, um [pause] I think it, what I meant is the settlements that are increasing in some of these areas and places where Palestinians are experiencing difficulty in access to their housing and homes.
MH: Do you think you can expand on that?
AOC: Yeah, I mean, I think I’d also just [waves hands and laughs] I am not the expert on geopolitics on this issue. You know, for me, I’m a firm believer in finding a two-state solution on this issue, and I’m happy to sit down with leaders on both of these. For me, I just look at things through a human rights lens, and I may not use the right words [laughs] I know this is a very intense issue.
MH: That’s very honest, that’s very honest. It’s very honest, and when, you, you know, get to Washington and you’re an elected member of Congress you’ll have the opportunity to talk to people on all sides and visit Israel and visit the West Bank and —
AOC: Absolutely, absolutely. And I think that that’s one of those things that’s important too is that, you know, especially with the district that I represent — I come from the South Bronx, I come from a Puerto Rican background, and Middle Eastern politics was not exactly at my kitchen table every night. But, I also recognize that this is an intensely important issue for people in my district, for Americans across the country, and I think what’s at least important to communicate is that I’m willing to listen and that I’m willing to learn and evolve on this issue like I think many Americans are.
https://jacobin.com/2018/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-israel-palestine-occupation
Toast from day one.
All I’m reading is that she isn’t particularly knowledgeable about middle eastern politics. How does that serve as evidence of her corruption?
I tend to go with this interpretation.
And unlike Schumer, she is delicate about walking the line between being against Israel’s actions in Gaza and saying something stupid (IE: Israel direly needs aid to help the people suffering in Gaza!).
Eh, mostly not corrupt. She voted to end the rail workers strike
Oof, that is actually a big one I didn’t readily know.
The longer she remains a Dem, the more corrupt she is going to get. That is a definite.
…what…?
Lots of ‘burn it all to the ground’ users on lemmy I’ve found. They hate democrats so much that they end up being republican in the end. I try and ignore them, but there’s a handful each time a democrat is mentioned.
Kbin user for the record.
I invite you to embrace that Democracy is not binary, and “people who hate democrats so they (sound/are) republican, so I ignore them” is a stupid way to look at it, and causes an immense amount of harm to the society as a whole.
There’s no winning on this site. I’d love a multi-party system, but our current set-up isn’t like that. Right now I’d like to keep what very little bodily autonomy I have as a woman. I’ve voted and protested for years. I don’t care if you think I’m ’harming society as a whole’ because of my singular comment. I’m honestly done. I really can’t take this anymore. Yes, I will be voting democrat because the other option is too dire to consider, and that’s if I make it that long. I’m glad you were able to sum up my entire being due to one response to a user asking ‘what’. I’m glad you’ve laid this blame at my feet and called me stupid to boot. Every user is (hopefully) a human being and I just can’t stand how hostile everyone is.
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Yes…
Standing against fascism will assuredly lead to gang rapes and famine.
Perhaps shut up and watch Red Dawn again?
I’m 47 years old. I have a Master’s degree in software engineering and I have been homeless as of last year when I was priced out of existing anywhere but my 23 year old hatchback. I must be one of those outliers, huh? I must be an inconventient victim of neolberalism that could never happen to you.
I am much further along in my realization that electorialism is dead. There is not one person in the entire US government that can turn this around. It is too far gone. I’m sure that, if you were in my place, you already have come to realise how bleak things are. Stop being so smug and marginalizing those of us that are paying attention just because you fear being awakened from your privledged lifestyle. Electoralism isn’t going to magically fix this shithole. Things need far more of a reset than voting will EVER accomplish.
Let me guess, you want me to get out and vote for Biden?
I want you to do something more than nay-say and complain on the internet.
I am an astronaut, I have been priced out of the electric guitar market for over a year, I no longer think this city was built on rock and roll. For this reason I will blah blah blah…
More please.
