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Ocasio-Cortez Defends Tlaib Calling Trump 'Motherf**ker': 'I Got Your Back'

posted onJanuary 6, 2019
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Article snippet: “Republican hypocrisy at its finest: saying that Trump admitting to sexual assault on tape is just ‘locker room talk,’ but scandalizing themselves into faux-outrage when my sis says a curse word in a bar,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in reference to the Access Hollywood tape in which President Trump — at the time host of the reality television program The Apprentice — was recorded making lewd comments about women. “GOP lost entitlement to policing women’s behavior a long time ago. Next,” the self-avowed Democratic-Socialist added. In a subsequent tweet, Ocasio-Cortez told Tlaib that she has her back, adding that the Bronx and Detroit “ride together.” While Tlaib’s “impeach the motherfucker” remark was met with criticism from Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Trump himself, Ocasio-Cortez ignored the fact that several top Democrats also expressed disapproval with it. “I don’t like that language. I wouldn’t use that language,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said of the remarks in a town hall meeting televised by MSNBC. The California Democrat then went on to say that the remark is “not the position of the Democratic caucus” regarding impeachment.  “I think it probably consolidates his [President Trump’s] base, but I don’t think it needs much consolidation,” she added. On Friday evening, Tlaib said she stands by her remark, telling WDIV Local 4 in Detroit that President Trump “has met his match” and “he’s just going to have... Link to the full article to read more

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