Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has a message for Donald Trump: If you want to see a rapist or a criminal, you don’t have to look any further than the nearest mirror.
Speaking at a rally in Idaho with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Monday, Ocasio-Cortez began by slamming members of Congress for trading stocks.
“We saw it just happen with Trump’s corrupt and disastrous and rushed tariff scheme. We saw Marjorie Taylor Greene buy that dip. I got one question for her: How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair?”
“No more! We can’t accept it. I hope we see now that it was all about manipulating the market so that he could quietly enrich his friends who bought the dip before reversing it all in the morning,” she continued.
Then came the barrage against Trump.
“This is a matter of fact. Donald Trump is a criminal who was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud! Liable for sexual abuse! Of course, he’s lying and abusing and manipulating the stock market too! When he talks about rapists and criminals, he should look in the mirror!”
Ocasio-Cortez then pivoted back to stock trading members of the House and Senate: “But back to stocks, to be clear, I don’t care what party you are, Democrat or Republican. It doesn’t matter how powerful one is or the position that one holds, members of Congress holding and trading individual stock is wrong. It is corrosive, it is destructive, and it needs to be banned.”
Here’s the video of AOC’s speech:
Everything Ocasio-Cortez said is accurate.
No one who serves in Congress and is paid with taxpayer money should be allowed to trade stocks. It’s the very definition of insider trading, and it needs to end.
And as AOC noted, Donald Trump is indeed a sexual deviant and convicted felon. He belongs in one of the prisons he’s threatening to send Americans to in Central America. Until that happens, this country will never be safe.
