Rather than admit that she was mistaken and ignorant, the m.o. ‘Sandy’ Ocasio-Cortez uses is basically scream the same thing louder and deny anyone with facts.
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Ignorant freshman congresswoman Alexandria “Sandy” Ocasio-Cortez is learning her part well. She has been caught spreading a lie about Donald Trump Jr. but rather than admit her mistake, she has chosen to dig in her heels.
She wrote, “ICYMI: Rep. Khanna got Cohen to testify that Don Jr. is the ‘second executive involved in criminal conspiracy,’” Ocasio-Cortez on Friday, adding that this is a “big deal.”
But, the problem is… that’s a lie of astounding proportions. Even The Washington Post agrees that it was neither “criminal” nor was Trump Jr. identified in the charging document.
The lie was told by convicted liar Michael Cohen, during his ‘testimony’ before lawmakers on Wednesday.
The falsehood involves the payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels after she blackmailed him.
He ended up paying her off, which is not an illegal act.
On Wednesday, the exchange between Cohen and Ro Khanna went like this:
Mr. Khanna: The criminal charge against you then states that executive one forwarded your invoice to someone referred to as executive two, presumably Donald Trump Jr., who’s signing this check as executive two, correct?
Mr. Cohen: I believe so.
Mr. Khanna: Are you telling us, Mr. Cohen, that the president directed transactions in conspiracy with Allen Weisselberg and his son, Donald Trump Jr., as part of a civil — as part of a criminal conspiracy of financial fraud, is that your testimony today?
Mr. Cohen: Yes.
Of course, that was another lie, as the Wall Street Journal made clear:
“In the afternoon session, Mr. Cohen identified the president’s son, apparently incorrectly, as an unnamed Trump Organization executive referenced in the charging documents filed against him by federal prosecutors in New York.
“The executives were referenced in connection with the plan to reimburse Mr. Cohen for the payment to Stormy Daniels. In the charging document, federal prosecutors said the first executive, Mr. Weisselberg, forwarded an invoice from Mr. Cohen to the second executive, and it was approved.
“The Journal has previously identified “Executive-1” as Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg. Mr. Cohen testified today that “Executive-2” in the charging document was Donald Trump Jr.”
However, even after being confronted with the facts, Ocasio-Cortez chose to stand by her spreading of a false story.
Breitbart News wrote:
To begin with, paying off a blackmailing porn star with your own money is not illegal, nor does it prove the two of them slept together. As Cohen mentioned in his testimony, Trump has been forced to pay off liars in the past.
Secondly, keeping a payoff a secret is not a crime.
Most importantly, the worst Trump is guilty of here (and he’s not) is a campaign finance violation. Democrats and Dirty Cops in the Justice Department want us to believe the payoff should have been listed on Trump’s campaign finance reports as a “campaign expense.” Even if that were true (and it’s not), the worse case scenario is the campaign being hit with a fine.
The reason this is not a campaign finance violation is simple: Trump has been paying off this kind of blackmail for decades. Cohen admitted that during his testimony, which means this is not a campaign finance violation because you only have to report something as a campaign expense if that expense is specific to the campaign.
In other words, if you would have incurred this expense if you were not running for office, there is no requirement to report the expense.
If Trump has been making these payoffs going back more than a decade, if there is a pattern of Trump incurring these expenses to protect his reputation, marriage, and private life, then there is no way this is a campaign expense.
Although she has only been in the U.S. House of Representatives a couple of months, Ocasio-Cortez has already been caught deceiving voters on numerous occasions.
