Kellyanne Conway made mention of the fact that AOC did not say anything about the Easter Massacre in Sri Lanka. AOC said she couldn’t because she was in Puerto Rico visiting her mother.
But even if that is true, she still didn’t say anything after she got back. I guess she didn’t want to say the M word as it pertains to the religion of peace. Conway was on TV with Jake Tapper on CNN when she brought up the fact that AOC did not grandstand when Muslims were the perpetrators like she did when they were the victims in New Zealand.
Transcript of Conway’s comment about Ocasio-Cortez that occurred in the midst of a debate with host Jake Tapper about President Trump’s statement about the deadly protests by white supremacists and Antifa in Charlottesville in 2017.
CONWAY: I see officials who get a lot of airtime and ink, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, congresswoman, who tweets many times about the mosque and never once about the…
(CROSSTALK)
TAPPER: But, Kellyanne, you brought up Charlottesville.
(CROSSTALK)
CONWAY: … in Sri Lanka.
Ocasio-Cortez took offense at Conway calling her out for grandstanding on the attack on Muslims in New Zealand last month by a white supremacist but ignoring the attack on Christians on Easter Sunday by ISIS Islamist terrorists.
Ocasio-Cortez fired off an angry tweet storm at Conway, eventually posting her first comments about the Sri Lanka attacks after one week of silence.
“Hello Ms. Conway, On Easter I was away from tech visiting my grandmother in Puerto Rico, which continues to suffer from the White House’s incompetent disaster response. Are you trying to imply that I am less Christian? What was the point of you bringing this up on national TV?”
“The terrorist attack in Sri Lanka was horrifying. Saying ‘Easter worshippers’ matters bc Easter is the holiest day of the year for Christians, & to be targeted on Easter highlights how heinous the attack was – just as saying yesterday’s #SanDiego shooting was on Passover.”