New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez launched an unhinged rant Sunday towards President-elect Donald Trump – claiming the nation was on the “eve of an authoritarian administration.”
The lefty lawmaker representing components of Queens and the Bronx let free throughout a sequence of Instagram movies by which she slammed TikTok for crediting Trump for the social media platform’s return after it was briefly offline in america this weekend.
“We’re on the eve of an authoritarian administration,” the congresswoman stated a day earlier than Trump’s inauguration. “That is what twenty first century fascism is beginning to appear to be.”
Ocasio-Cortez questioned why TikTok was giving kudos to Trump contemplating he’s not but president and is a “personal citizen.”
“They’re signaling that they’re privately collaborating, they’ve agreed to privately collaborate with Donald Trump and the Trump administration,” she stated, including she believes TikTok is getting used as a “propaganda device for the fitting.”
TikTok’s Chinese language guardian firm ByteDance was given till Jan. 19 to both promote the platform’s US enterprise or be banned from the nation after Congress overwhelmingly permitted the measure in April and was subsequently signed into legislation by President Biden over nationwide safety worries.
Trump has signaled he’s prepared to work with the corporate to maintain TikTok on-line.
Ocasio-Cortez, who voted towards the TikTok laws, then argued each mass social media app “has been taken over by the fitting wing,” together with X, owned by Trump supporter Elon Musk and Meta, which operates Fb and Instagram.
Meta founder, Mark Zuckerberg, discontinued fact-checking on his platforms this month, Ocasio-Cortez supplied as a purpose why Meta was now supporting the GOP.
Zuckerberg has additionally met with Trump in Florida and donated $1 million to the president-elect’s inaugural fund.
The “Squad” member, who’s beginning her fourth time period in workplace, then argued Republicans need to mannequin themselves after Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has been in energy for greater than a decade.
“And so you may look to see how Victor Orban runs Hungary to get a style of how they may attempt to govern and management media and firms in america,” she claimed.
Orban has been criticized for dismantling his nation’s democratic establishments whereas cracking down on judicial independence and important media retailers.
Ocasio-Cortez additionally referred to Trump as a “rapist” Sunday a month after ABC Information settled a lawsuit with the incoming president after its star anchor incorrectly stated Trump was “discovered accountable for rape” throughout a 2024 dwell broadcast.
“All these journalists are like ‘Congresswoman, are you going to the inauguration, congresswoman are you going to inauguration, are you going to the inauguration?’” she stated on one other Instagram video.
“Let me make myself clear: I don’t rejoice rapists so no, I’m not going to the inauguration.”
She then doubled down on the incendiary remarks on X after a right-wing account blasted out the clip.
“Oh, are you triggered? Cry extra,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
ABC Information anchor George Stephanopoulos made the incorrect on-air assertion that Trump was discovered civilly accountable for raping author E. Jean Carroll, resulting in his community to pay $15 million towards Trump’s presidential library as a part of a authorized settlement.
Trump sued ABC and the journalist days after the community aired the section final 12 months by which Stephanopoulos interviewed South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace and wrongly said the verdicts in Carroll’s two civil lawsuits towards the forty fifth and soon-to-be forty seventh president.
The anchor stated throughout a dwell “This Week” interview that Trump was “discovered accountable for rape” and “defaming the sufferer of that rape,” however neither verdict concerned a discovering of rape below New York legislation.
A New York court docket decided in 2023 that Trump was accountable for sexual abuse over allegations that he abused Carroll at a division retailer in 1996 and later defamed her in his statements by which he denied her allegations.
Trump has denied wrongdoing and is interesting the ruling.
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