AOC is Throwing in Her Two Cents on the Paul Pelosi Attack…No Surprise Here – Watch
In the aftermath of the alleged attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, politicians are lining up to place blame for this violent act.
Progressive Democrat, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York seemed to endorse a radical sentiment from left-wing media figure Elie Mystal. He claimed the assault on Paul Pelosi in his own home was due to the Republican’s “endgame,” which is violence.
“This is the future the Republicans want. It’s the future they’ve literally been calling for on television. This is why they are so excited about the new overlord of Twitter. This, the violence, has always been their endgame. And if they win they will only get worse,” Mystal tweeted.
He made these comments at the same time he was retweeting a post from Paul Kane of the Washington Post. Kane wrote that the assailant had asked, “Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?” before the attack.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was not in San Francisco when the alleged attack occurred.
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response to Mystal, “Or maybe a billionaire-fueled propaganda channel that regularly generates high volumes of death threats to elected officials while pumping propaganda for an extreme right-wing that openly embraces fascism is what’s creating ‘the environment where it happened.’”
GOP Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas said that the problem is allowing criminals out on bail instead of locking them up. He wrote, “When you let dangerous criminals out on the streets with bail and not put them in prison, you’re asking for this incident to happen. I think it created the environment where it happened.”
But California state Sen. Scott Wiener wrote in a statement that the assault was “the direct result of toxic right wing rhetoric and incitement against Speaker Pelosi and so many other progressive leaders.”
It is apparent that no one is waiting for the investigation to bring to light the reason for the attack, minds are already made up.
This is the future the Republicans want. It’s the future they’ve literally been calling for on television. This is why they are so excited about the new overlord of Twitter. This, the violence, has always been their endgame.
And if they win they will only get worse. https://t.co/qRvxQLCnwt
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) October 28, 2022
Or maybe a billionaire-fueled propaganda channel that regularly generates high volumes of death threats to elected officials while pumping propaganda for an extreme right-wing that openly embraces fascism is what’s creating “the environment where it happened” https://t.co/wfCYKWXU8N
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 28, 2022