Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a freshman lawmaker who’s become conservative media’s new favorite punching bag, called the latest “Fox and Friends” dig — that she couldn’t possibly be writing her own questions — “amusing.”
“You know what’s amusing about this whole thing?” she tweeted Thursday. “Our leg staff (who help with Qs) also worked in restaurants, grew up in Appalachian trailer parks and come from immigrant families.”
You know what’s amusing about this whole thing?
Our leg staff (who help w Qs) *also* worked in restaurants, grew up in Appalachian trailer parks, and come from immigrant families.
Wait until they find out I actually PAY them to do their jobs, coach them myself,& offer feedback. https://t.co/sd888Uxx0M
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 21, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet follows a Thursday “Fox and Friends” segment in which co-host Brian Kilmeade mused about “forces” behind the 29-year-old congresswoman who might be “writing her questions” for congressional hearings for her.
“Somebody is writing her questions, I saw the questions at Michael Cohen, I saw the question at Wilbur Ross and there is some forces behind her,” he said. “I think there’s a story there.”
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee — and father of the White House press secretary — was being interviewed when the comments were made and responded saying he’s heard tell of “allegations” that Ocasio-Cortez was “recruited and prepared” by some outside entity to run and defeat former Rep. Joe Crowley.
“Well there very well could be, I know there have been some allegations that she was almost like the Manchurian Candidate, recruited, prepared, you know, I don’t know, but the point is she got her voters out,” Huckabee responded. “Now I think there’s going to be a lot of New Yorkers would’ve loved to have seen those 25,000 Amazon jobs that may turn out in force and say, ‘thank you, but no thank you. Bye-bye, two years was all we could handle.'”
