In 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned Michael Cohen about Donald Trump. Cohen’s answers eventually led to Letitia James’s fraud lawsuit.
I love that for both of them.
The NYT broke this story around 2017/2018 I’ll try to find the link
I can’t find it, just this one about tax evasion by devaluing his priorities https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Wk0.6uz3.5uJplFPry20C&smid=nytcore-android-share
Journalist Craig Unger at least mentioned this in 2018 in his book House of Trump, House of Putin. Likely that book is not the original source on this, so there should be some earlier one.
And nothing happened until AOC did something with Cohen under oath. You guys seem to think those are holding equal weight.
Let’s be clear. A nyt article most of the time doesn’t do shit.
Nah… how do you argue it’s not a coincidence? There are likely hundreds of people who worked hard to make this outcome possible.
More please.
Possibly her contribution was important, but tbh it’s also generally easy to cherry pick records to invent narratives like this.
Ocasio-Cortez again asked Cohen if the former president had ever inflated his assets. “Yes,” Cohen answered.
This fraud was already documented at the time by journalists. Do you call this the “beginning”, then? Also, Cohen was collaborating with authorities. Would the investigation not happen without that testimony?
Although AOC contributed there, this article is rather shallow as it misses the bigger picture where AOC was not in the center in my opinion.
I watched this live and you couldn’t be more obtuse. NO ONE else in the room was following this line of questioning. Sure reporters could have uncovered all of this eventually but she had the presence of mind to know this was under oath so it could move the prosecution along much faster.
Thanks for sharing your personal opinion.
Analysis: AOC is being groomed by corrupt DNC insiders and think tanks as the next Obama.
Correct, but not how I think you are framing it.
AOC, one of the 5 not corrupt members of the DNC, but the longer she stays in bed with them, the more fleas she will accumulate.
She is eligible for this Presidential election. She should go for it.
not corrupt
Are you sure about that? 😅
Bernie, AOC, Katie Porter, Ro Khanna, Rashida Tlaib.
Those are the 5 Democrats that I currently trust and believe not to be corrupt.
This, right here. ☝🏼
(Maybe the Presidency would be better off as a quorum. Right after the guillotines get packed away and everyone’s learned once again what treason gets you.)
Eh, mostly not corrupt. She voted to end the rail workers strike
Oof, that is actually a big one I didn’t readily know.
The longer she remains a Dem, the more corrupt she is going to get. That is a definite.
…what…?
Lots of ‘burn it all to the ground’ users on lemmy I’ve found. They hate democrats so much that they end up being republican in the end. I try and ignore them, but there’s a handful each time a democrat is mentioned.
Kbin user for the record.
I invite you to embrace that Democracy is not binary, and “people who hate democrats so they (sound/are) republican, so I ignore them” is a stupid way to look at it, and causes an immense amount of harm to the society as a whole.
There’s no winning on this site. I’d love a multi-party system, but our current set-up isn’t like that. Right now I’d like to keep what very little bodily autonomy I have as a woman. I’ve voted and protested for years. I don’t care if you think I’m ’harming society as a whole’ because of my singular comment. I’m honestly done. I really can’t take this anymore. Yes, I will be voting democrat because the other option is too dire to consider, and that’s if I make it that long. I’m glad you were able to sum up my entire being due to one response to a user asking ‘what’. I’m glad you’ve laid this blame at my feet and called me stupid to boot. Every user is (hopefully) a human being and I just can’t stand how hostile everyone is.
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Yes…
Standing against fascism will assuredly lead to gang rapes and famine.
Perhaps shut up and watch Red Dawn again?
I’m 47 years old. I have a Master’s degree in software engineering and I have been homeless as of last year when I was priced out of existing anywhere but my 23 year old hatchback. I must be one of those outliers, huh? I must be an inconventient victim of neolberalism that could never happen to you.
I am much further along in my realization that electorialism is dead. There is not one person in the entire US government that can turn this around. It is too far gone. I’m sure that, if you were in my place, you already have come to realise how bleak things are. Stop being so smug and marginalizing those of us that are paying attention just because you fear being awakened from your privledged lifestyle. Electoralism isn’t going to magically fix this shithole. Things need far more of a reset than voting will EVER accomplish.
Let me guess, you want me to get out and vote for Biden?
I want you to do something more than nay-say and complain on the internet.
I am an astronaut, I have been priced out of the electric guitar market for over a year, I no longer think this city was built on rock and roll. For this reason I will blah blah blah…
