Not surprisingly, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wasn’t exactly steamy watching the final hearing of former President Donald Trump.
“Maybe George Santos and Marjorie Taylor Greene” were part of the so-called herd who openly cried while Trump was taken into custody, Ocasio-Cortez told Jordan Klepper in an interview published Monday night. Daily Show. “But not me. A return ticket to LaGuardia [Airport]Baby!”
The congressman said he thinks most New Yorkers are in the same mood. I think they treated him like a Florida man. He doesn’t belong to us anymore,'” he said with a laugh. “He is no longer from Queens. He is a citizen of Mar-a-Lago at this point.”
Ocasio-Cortez was a game-changer to focus on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ “BFF Nazi memorabilia collector”, Klepper describing real estate mogul Harlan Crow, who has become a supremely reluctant household name after ProPublica reported earlier this month. . He quietly spent some of his d billion on Thomas. With Crow suddenly becoming a troubling national spotlight, it soon became clear that he too was an aficionado of all things Third Reich.
“All this, I mean, weird,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “You also don’t hold [swastika-embossed table] sheets… who does this?”
“Don’t you think that if you had a billion dollars and bought everything, you’d probably end up in Nazi sheets?” asked.
Describing Nazi memoirs as “a distraction” from the main issue, Ocasio-Cortez turned to Judge Thomas, who did not report any of Crow’s gifts. “That’s why we pay public officials,” he said. “If they want to live a life like that, they can resign from the court. They can retire.”
A larger problem with Clarence’s currently right-leaning Supreme Court and the Republican Party as a whole is endemic, the congressman said. “We have to face the fact that the Supreme Court has chosen to give up so much of its legitimacy,” he added.
Klepper traveled to meet with Ocasio-Cortez at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where they discussed the hospital’s flagship model of Stand Against Violence, which treats gun violence as a public health crisis rather than a pipeline to incarceration.
“A Democrat focused on violence,” the reporter mocked. “Isn’t that a little off-brand?”
“Well, I’m from the Bronx,” Ocasio-Cortez replied with a smile. “So it’s brand-appropriate for where I come from.”
Now in its seventh year, the program showed a 45 percent reduction in gun violence between 2014 and 2018 in the regions it serves, compared to the previous four years; this is a fall that Klepper calls “impressive”.
“I can hear how Fox News would translate that,” he said. “‘AOC is trying to fund the police and gang members.”
“If I had spent my time worrying about what Fox News had to say, I wouldn’t be here,” Ocasio-Cortez replied.
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