Watch: AOC Has Epic Meltdown During Hearing on Twitter’s Handling of Hunter Biden Story
There is a famous saying in politics: elections have consequences. And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is not having a good time dealing with the consequences of Democrats losing the House majority. Ocasio-Cortez…
There is a famous saying in politics: elections have consequences.
And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is not having a good time dealing with the consequences of Democrats losing the House majority.
Ocasio-Cortez had an epic meltdown during a hearing by the House Oversight Committee on Twitter’s suppression of a 2020 story from The New York Post.
The congresswoman described the hearing as focused on “a 24-hour hiccup in a right-wing political operation.”
“That is why we are here right now. And it’s just an abuse of public resources, an abuse of public time,” she continued. “We could be talking about healthcare, we could be talking about bringing down the cost of prescription drugs, we could be talking about abortion rights, civil rights, voting rights.”
She added, “But instead, we’re talking about Hunter Biden’s half-fake laptop story. I mean, this is an embarrassment.”
Watch the moment below:
Now, let’s be honest for a moment. Did the suppression of the story have some massive impact on the 2020 election? Probably not.
Sure, there was a poll from a conservative outlet released after the election which claimed, “Full awareness of the Hunter Biden scandal would have led 9.4% of Biden voters to abandon the Democratic candidate, flipping all six of the swing states he won to Trump, giving the President 311 electoral votes.”
But there is no