AOC Chews Up Nearly 3 Minutes On House Floor Trashing Charlie Kirk’s Memory

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez repeatedly quoted Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Friday to paint him as an “uneducated” and “ignorant” person.

Ocasio-Cortez was one of the 58 Democrats to vote against a resolution to honor the life of Kirk and praise him as a “courageous American patriot” who “lived out his faith with conviction, courage, and compassion.” Ahead of the vote, Ocasio-Cortez made several claims about Kirk to argue that the resolution would “bring great pain” to Americans who faced “segregation, Jim Crow and the legacy of bigotry.”

“We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the Civil Right Act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake. Who after the violent attack on Paul Pelosi said, ‘some amazing patriot’ should bail out his brutal assailant and accused Jews of controlling ‘not just the colleges, it’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it.’ His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans far from ‘working tirelessly to promote unity’ asserted by the majority in this resolution,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

Several liberals and left-leaning outlets have made false claims about Kirk and have repeatedly misquoted him. The New York Times had to issue a correction after it falsely accused Kirk of saying that Jewish communities are “pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites” that they want people to stop using against them. In actuality, he criticized a tweet which made that claim.

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