AOC: Fellow Dems Mischaracterized Ilhan Omar’s Statements Which Started with Media and the Right Wing

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: “Well, you know, I think — I believe that her comments were absolutely mischaracterized. She was very clearly speaking about the ICC investigations which name these four actors in two suits. And they named them in context events that happened in Afghanistan with the United States and with Taliban and in palestine with hamas and the government of Israel. And, you know, I think that to say that — I believe that to assert that she was equating these two entities when she was speaking about the ICC investigations in which all four parties are being investigated for instances of war crimes, you know, I believe to assert that this was equating these two I believe was not a generous interpretation whatsoever. And we know that, you know, these variants tend to be cycles, this whole hubbub started with right wing news outlets taken out of context. It feeds legitimacy to this right wing vitriol. It absolutely increases that target. And as someone who has experienced that, you know, it’s very difficult to communicate the scale and how dangerous that is. And so I think as speaker Pelosi said, we are putting this behind us and I believe that we will ultimately come together as a caucus.”