Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted on Twitter yesterday how bravely she fights back against people who attack her. But shortly after that, two major scandals about her campaign hit the wires and AOC went silent… on the scandals anyway.
One of the scandals has the possibility of prison time and she could be impeached long before the president does. In one of the scandals, AOC’s chief of staff, created a slush fund between two PACs and he paid two companies he owned over 1 million dollars from them.
In the second scandal, you are probably aware that PACs and campaigns are forbidden to coordinate efforts. AOC and her chief of staff took it a step further and actually took control of the PAC. That is a criminal act, for which AOC could be impeached by congress or sent to prison or both. Then, money from the AOC campaign was sent to a PAC and that $6,000 was then paid to her boyfriend.
The normally combative Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is usually playing offense on Twitter, mixing it up with people who try to attack her. She’s not familiar with shyness or timidity.
That’s why it’s striking how quiet she’s been since charges surfaced that her “Chief of Staff Ran Slush Fund – Funneled Over $1 Million in Campaign Donations to His Own Companies”
Yikes! That’s a hell of a charge. AOC should be all over this, right?
Since the story broke at around 3:30pm here is what AOC has had time to urgently tweet about, other than the 800lb scandal in the room.
She’s defended institutionalized anti-Semitism in the US Congress:
I‘m curious if Rep. Vargas will further explain his stance here that it’s unacceptable to even *question* US foreign policy.
Plenty of Dem members have asserted that discussion + debate on this issue is fair and merited. Is this stance a departure from that? https://t.co/2tcelsxFCU
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 5, 2019
Shout out to this very NY display of love in the neighborhood yesterday ? https://t.co/bAG6bhmoSM
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 5, 2019
We polled the idea (that @AOC voiced last week) that some young people don’t want to have kids because of the threat of climate change.
Turns out 38% of 18-29 year-olds are factoring the Earth’s hot future into their decision about whether to have kids.https://t.co/AsQzonkzg4
— Eliza Relman (@eliza_relman) March 4, 2019
Why does @AOC respond to personal attacks on social media? She tells @errollouis that she wanted to “break this fourth wall a little bit” after seeing conspiracy theories that were ignored by politicians start to grow legs. #NY1Politics https://t.co/LpkXwpZ59o pic.twitter.com/q34ynnKXVO
— Spectrum News NY1 (@NY1) March 4, 2019
.@AOC: “While [President Trump’s] talking collusion, collusion, collusion, I think, in Oversight, we should be talking about taxes, taxes, taxes, and his bank account, his bank account, his bank account. His financial statements, statements, statements.” pic.twitter.com/dzyr9qhZJN
— The Hill (@thehill) March 4, 2019