[Analysis] AOC's questions years ago helped spark the investigation into Trump's business. Now, he's been ordered to pay $355 million.
businessinsider.com
In 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned Michael Cohen about Donald Trump. Cohen's answers eventually led to Letitia James's fraud lawsuit.
I love that for both of them.
Possibly her contribution was important, but tbh it's also generally easy to cherry pick records to invent narratives like this.
This fraud was already documented at the time by journalists. Do you call this the "beginning", then? Also, Cohen was collaborating with authorities. Would the investigation not happen without that testimony?
Although AOC contributed there, this article is rather shallow as it misses the bigger picture where AOC was not in the center in my opinion.
I watched this live and you couldn't be more obtuse. NO ONE else in the room was following this line of questioning. Sure reporters could have uncovered all of this eventually but she had the presence of mind to know this was under oath so it could move the prosecution along much faster.
Thanks for sharing your personal opinion.
Analysis: AOC is being groomed by corrupt DNC insiders and think tanks as the next Obama.
…what…?
Lots of ‘burn it all to the ground’ users on lemmy I’ve found. They hate democrats so much that they end up being republican in the end. I try and ignore them, but there’s a handful each time a democrat is mentioned.
Kbin user for the record.
I invite you to embrace that Democracy is not binary, and "people who hate democrats so they (sound/are) republican, so I ignore them" is a stupid way to look at it, and causes an immense amount of harm to the society as a whole.
Correct, but not how I think you are framing it.
AOC, one of the 5 not corrupt members of the DNC, but the longer she stays in bed with them, the more fleas she will accumulate.
She is eligible for this Presidential election. She should go for it.
Are you sure about that? 😅
Bernie, AOC, Katie Porter, Ro Khanna, Rashida Tlaib.
Those are the 5 Democrats that I currently trust and believe not to be corrupt.
This, right here. ☝🏼
(Maybe the Presidency would be better off as a quorum. Right after the guillotines get packed away and everyone's learned once again what treason gets you.)
Do you have any kind of evidence otherwise?
In the weeks leading up to her election:
After election:
https://jacobin.com/2018/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-israel-palestine-occupation
Toast from day one.
All I'm reading is that she isn't particularly knowledgeable about middle eastern politics. How does that serve as evidence of her corruption?
I tend to go with this interpretation.
And unlike Schumer, she is delicate about walking the line between being against Israel's actions in Gaza and saying something stupid (IE: Israel direly needs aid to help the people suffering in Gaza!).
Eh, mostly not corrupt. She voted to end the rail workers strike
Oof, that is actually a big one I didn't readily know.
The longer she remains a Dem, the more corrupt she is going to get. That is a definite.
More please.
The NYT broke this story around 2017/2018 I'll try to find the link
Journalist Craig Unger at least mentioned this in 2018 in his book House of Trump, House of Putin. Likely that book is not the original source on this, so there should be some earlier one.
And nothing happened until AOC did something with Cohen under oath. You guys seem to think those are holding equal weight.
Let's be clear. A nyt article most of the time doesn't do shit.
Nah... how do you argue it's not a coincidence? There are likely hundreds of people who worked hard to make this outcome possible.