Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday attacked a Democratic colleague in the House after apparently mistaking him for a Republican.
Ocasio-Cortez took a shot at Democratic Kentucky Rep. John Yarmuth on Twitter for posing next to a cardboard cutout of herself. She appeared to think Yarmuth—the chairman of the House Budget Committee—is a Republican.
The freshman congresswoman’s swipe at Yarmuth came after the Republican Party of Kentucky tweeted a picture of Yarmuth standing next to the Ocasio-Cortez cutout.
Ocasio-Cortez accused Republicans of posing “older male members next to cardboard cutouts of young female legislators,” seemingly not realizing that Yarmuth is a Democrat.
Ocasio-Cortez deleted the tweet after she was mocked online for the error.
Ocasio-Cortez apparently doesn’t recognize Rep. John Yarmuth, the congressman in that picture. He’s a Democrat. pic.twitter.com/MoXzxtX2eS
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) April 25, 2019
.@AOC FYI, the “older male” pictured is John Yarmuth. Your colleague. And a Democrat.
Good job. pic.twitter.com/vwXyNIKj3A
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) April 25, 2019
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) thinks Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) is a Republican member of Congress.
It literally says in the tweet that she is quoting that Yarmuth is a Democrat.
AOC doesn’t even know who her Democrat colleagues in Congress are, how embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/p9mxv2qwxw
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 25, 2019
It wasn’t the first time she spread misinformation on Twitter, where she has more than 4 million followers.
She launched a blatantly false accusation against a Republican operative in February, accusing him—without any evidence—of running “a multimillion-dollar operation to have bot accounts manipulate online discourse.”
She made a series of false claims in March in an attempt to discredit a string of ethics complaints that watchdog groups have filed against her.
By Peter Hasson
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