Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, May 21, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lost it over Trump’s rally in the South Bronx, attacking him for the event and alleging that he is only holding it because he is stuck in New York City thanks to the “hush money” trial brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Many conservatives alleged that Rep. AOC, with those comments, had said the quiet part out loud about the Trump trial.
The South Bronx rally, which occurred on Thursday, May 23, was Trump’s first rally in New York since 2016. It was attacked by many Democrats, with, for example, the Biden campaign’s black media outreach director, ridiculing it as “a halfhearted attempt … to pander for Black and Latino votes.”
That Biden outreach director then went on to try to smear Trump as a “racist” saying that former President Trump, “stepped into public life by falsely accusing the Central Park 5 [and] taking the racist birther movement mainstream.”
In any case, AOC went on the attack when speaking about the rally and Trump. First, she alleged that the rally is nothing more than an attempt to “fleece” supporters out of their money, saying, “Donald Trump is broke. He needs money. He’s hosting a rally to try to con people and try to fleece them out of every dollar that they have to fund his own legal fees.”
She continued, saying that the “hush money” trial is “the legal version of an ankle bracelet,” which many on the right alleged was her admitting that he was stuck in New York City and unable to effectively campaign because of the trial.
She said, “And by the way, he’s doing it in the South Bronx, not to make a point, but because he’s got court and the man practically has the legal version of an ankle bracelet around him, and he can’t leave the five boroughs because he always has to be in court. And so it is truly an embarrassment to him.”
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Trump, posting about the case on Truth Social in April, said, “This Fake Case is solely meant to attack Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent, ME, who is seriously leading him in the Polls, for purposes of Election Interference. The Judge, Juan Merchan, is preventing me from proudly attending my son’s Graduation. Seems very unfair, doesn’t it? But this whole event is unfair. Every one of the many Fake Cases that are perpetuated by the White House in order to help the Worst President in History, by far, get Re-Elected, are UNJUST SCAMS. We won’t let that happen, but we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
He was, in the end, allowed to visit Barron’s graduation instead of remaining in court. However, many of his allies echo his point that the case is a lawfare attack on him meant to help President Joe Biden by keeping him in the courtroom and off of the campaign trail for much of this spring while the New York “hush money” case proceeds.
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