New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez launched an unhinged rant Sunday in opposition to President-elect Donald Trump – claiming the nation was on the “eve of an authoritarian administration.”
The lefty lawmaker representing elements of Queens and the Bronx let unfastened throughout a sequence of Instagram movies during which she slammed TikTok for crediting Trump for the social media platform’s return after it was briefly offline in america this weekend.
“We’re on the eve of an authoritarian administration,” the congresswoman mentioned a day earlier than Trump’s inauguration. “That is what twenty first century fascism is beginning to seem like.”
Ocasio-Cortez questioned why TikTok was giving kudos to Trump contemplating he’s not but president and is a “non-public citizen.”
“They’re signaling that they’re privately collaborating, they’ve agreed to privately collaborate with Donald Trump and the Trump administration,” she mentioned, including she believes TikTok is getting used as a “propaganda instrument for the best.”
TikTok’s Chinese language guardian firm ByteDance was given till Jan. 19 to both promote the platform’s US enterprise or be banned from the nation after Congress overwhelmingly accepted the measure in April and was subsequently signed into legislation by President Biden over nationwide safety worries.
Trump has signaled he’s prepared to work with the corporate to maintain TikTok on-line.
Ocasio-Cortez, who voted in opposition to the TikTok laws, then argued each mass social media app “has been taken over by the best wing,” together with X, owned by Trump supporter Elon Musk and Meta, which operates Fb and Instagram.
Meta founder, Mark Zuckerberg, discontinued fact-checking on his platforms this month, Ocasio-Cortez provided as a purpose why Meta was now supporting the GOP.
Zuckerberg has additionally met with Trump in Florida and donated $1 million to the president-elect’s inaugural fund.
The “Squad” member, who’s beginning her fourth time period in workplace, then argued Republicans wish to mannequin themselves after Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has been in energy for greater than a decade.
“And so you possibly can look to see how Victor Orban runs Hungary to get a style of how they may attempt to govern and management media and firms in america,” she claimed.
Orban has been criticized for dismantling his nation’s democratic establishments whereas cracking down on judicial independence and demanding media shops.
Ocasio-Cortez additionally referred to Trump as a “rapist” Sunday a month after ABC Information settled a lawsuit with the incoming president after its star anchor incorrectly mentioned Trump was “discovered responsible for rape” throughout a 2024 reside broadcast.
“All these journalists are like ‘Congresswoman, are you going to the inauguration, congresswoman are you going to inauguration, are you going to the inauguration?’” she mentioned on one other Instagram video.
“Let me make myself clear: I don’t rejoice rapists so no, I’m not going to the inauguration.”
She then doubled down on the incendiary remarks on X after a right-wing account blasted out the clip.
“Oh, are you triggered? Cry extra,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
ABC Information anchor George Stephanopoulos made the wrong on-air assertion that Trump was discovered civilly responsible for raping author E. Jean Carroll, resulting in his community to pay $15 million towards Trump’s presidential library as a part of a authorized settlement.
Trump sued ABC and the journalist days after the community aired the phase final yr during which Stephanopoulos interviewed South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace and wrongly acknowledged the verdicts in Carroll’s two civil lawsuits in opposition to the forty fifth and soon-to-be forty seventh president.
The anchor mentioned throughout a reside “This Week” interview that Trump was “discovered responsible for rape” and “defaming the sufferer of that rape,” however neither verdict concerned a discovering of rape beneath New York legislation.
A New York courtroom decided in 2023 that Trump was responsible for sexual abuse over allegations that he abused Carroll at a division retailer in 1996 and later defamed her in his statements during which he denied her allegations.
Trump has denied wrongdoing and is interesting the ruling.
