Pelosi Refuses To Condemn Ocasio-Cortez‘s Border Comments – Deflects By Claiming Republicans ‘Will Misrepresent Anything’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi deflected a question regarding freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez‘s controversial comments, claiming instead that Republicans will “misrepresent anything” a Democrat says.

This Wednesday, while speaking at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor, Nancy Pelosi was asked for her thoughts on the self-described democratic socialist’s remarks that compared illegal immigrant detainment facilities at the southern border to concentration camps and whether she has addressed with the freshman members “the power of their words.”

As previously reported, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez claimed in a Live video on Instagram that the centers used to hold illegal immigrants attempting to cross into the U.S. through the border were “exactly” like concentration camps.

House speaker Nancy Pelosi responded by saying that members of Congress “take responsibility” for their “statements” and that she “hasn’t spoken” to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez about her comments before claiming that Republicans “will misrepresent anything” that members in the Democratic caucus say if there is even “one word” they can “exploit.”

“These members of Congress are — they come and represent their districts and their point of view, and they take responsibility for the statements that they make. I’m not up to date on her most recent one, I saw something in the news.” Pelosi said.

“But I — no, I haven’t spoken to her about that. I do have some comments to make to my caucus writ large about the political nature of how politically charged the atmosphere is, so understand that while the Republicans have no interest in holding the president accountable for his words, they will misrepresent anything that you say just if you have one word in the sentence that they can exploit.” She added.

Nancy Pelosi’s refusal to address Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks isn’t the first time the speaker has tried to flip the script against Republicans after another Democrat’s controversial comment.

Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats demanded President Trump and House Republicans apologize to Rep. Rashida Tlaib for trying to “misrepresent” her remarks from a recorded interview in which she claimed that she had a “calming feeling” when she thought about the Holocaust because Palestinians gave Jews a “safe haven” after the tragedy.

Liz Cheney Slams Ocasio-Cortez Offering to ‘Introduce’ Her To ‘The Basics Of The Constitution’

On Monday, House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney flattened freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a Twitter battle.

Ocasio-Cortez faced backlash after she claimed that Republicans pushed the 22nd Amendment, which set a two-term limit on the White House, to force former President Franklin D. Roosevelt out, even though it passed years after his in-office death.

“They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected,” claimed Ocasio-Cortez.

Jut a reminder, FDR died in office in 1945, the 22nd Amendment came in 1947.

Because of her historical flub, Twitter users jumped to correct her and mock the statement, including Cheney.

Cheney jabbed Democrats for opposing stricter voter identification laws, making the old joke that dead people always vote Democrat.

Ocasio-Cortez didn’t take too long to respond to the insult. She quickly got back on Twitter and posted an article that defended her 22nd Amendment hot-take. The Democratic congresswoman bashed her Republican colleague, claiming that Cheney gets her news from online memes.

“I see from your dead people comment that you get your news from Facebook memes, but the National Constitution Center + Newsweek are just two of many places where you can clarify your misunderstanding of the history of the 22nd Amendment.” she wrote on Twitter.

Ocasio-Cortez posted a link to an article from Newsweek that attempted to defend her 22nd Amendment history. Newsweek wrote that the planning for the amendment started before Roosevelt left office. Still, that article and Ocasio-Cortez were slammed for being incorrect on social media.

https://twitter.com/HashtagGriswold/status/1112830872791781376

While people immediately jumped in to defend Cheney, it probably wasn’t necessary because she had her own awesome response to fire back at Ocasio-Cortez, using a clip from the “School House Rock.”

This isn’t the first time that Liz Cheney has criticized Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter.

During Presideni Trump’s State of the Union address, Cheney slammed Ocasio-Cortez and her colleagues for refusing to stand during many moments of the speech.

It’s more than clear that, these two congresswomen won’t be seeing eye-to-eye anytime soon.

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