Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) angrily hit back at congressional Republicans during a raucous speech on the House floor Thursday in response to a vote to boot Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The New York Democratic lawmaker declared to her fellow members that the GOP was “targeting women of color” with its vote to oust Omar, which Republicans said was due to past antisemitic and anti-American remarks.
Not long before a party-line 218-211 vote to boot Omar from the committee, Ocasio-Cortez took to the House floor with a passionate repudiation of the “disgusting” post-9/11 legacy of “targeting and racism against Muslim Americans.”
“I think one of the things that we should talk about here is also one of the disgusting legacies after 9/11 — has been the targeting and racism against Muslim Americans throughout the United States of America,” she said.
She then went on to blast House Republicans’ claims that the vote was “consistent” with their previous position on the Minnesota Democrat’s behavior.
“Consistency? There is nothing consistent with the Republican Party’s continued attack, except for the racism and incitement of violence against women of color in this body. I had a member of the Republican Caucus threaten my life and the Republican Caucus rewarded him with one of the most prestigious committee assignments in this Congress,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Angrily, she continued, “Don’t tell me this is about consistency! Don’t tell me that this is about a condemnation of antisemitic remarks when you have a member of the Republican caucus who has talked about Jewish space lasers and an entire amount of tropes, and also elevated her to some of the highest committee assignments in this body!” she added
At the climax of her speech, Ocasio-Cortez declared, “This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America! Don’t tell me, because I didn’t get a single apology when my life was threatened!”
The congresswoman smacked her notebook against the podium after her speaking time ended.
Plenty of her detractors have reacted on social media with one even calling her theatrics ‘rehearsed’.
OMG! 😂😂😂
Rehearsed in the mirror for hours with those ridiculous arm movements and fake outrage. What a cringe phony. 😂 https://t.co/3A8SpDzF1Y
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) February 2, 2023
Meanwhile AOC and a handful of other federal politicians – including two other Democrats – also shelled out thousands in campaign payments to a Chinese foreign agent, as discovered a Fox News Digital review of campaign finance records.
Ocasio Cortez pushed campaign cash to Sing Tao U.S., a subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based Sing Tao News Corporation Ltd, for advertising expenses during the midterm election cycle.
Those campaigns, in other words, had sent their money to a Chinese-owned entity that the Department of Justice forced to register as a Chinese foreign agent in August 2021.
Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign dropped nearly $1,500 on advertisements with Sing Tao Newspapers during the midterm election cycle after it had registered as a foreign agent.