Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tore into House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for what she called a ‘toothless’ statement of condemnation after Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar appeared at white nationalist events.
‘McCarthy has been protecting his little KKK Caucus for years with these toothless statements and meetings. It’s how he covers for them,’ the New York Democrat tweeted Monday night. ‘He’s now helped them for so long they’ve escalated their open antisemitism & collaboration w/ white nationalist groups. He’s just as culpable,’ she added.
Greene was in Orlando, Florida over the weekend to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, but was also a surprise guest at the America First Political Action Conference, which was organized by white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tore into House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for what she called a ‘toothless’ statement of condemnation after Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar appeared at white nationalist events
‘McCarthy has been protecting his little KKK Caucus for years with these toothless statements and meetings. It’s how he covers for them,’ the New York Democrat tweeted Monday night, adding that the GOP leader is ‘culpable’
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Monday that he would talk to Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar for appearing at white nationalist events, telling CNN Greene’s appearance over the weekend was ‘appalling and wrong’
Gosar appeared in-person at AFPAC last year and recorded a message for the event this year.
On Monday night McCarthy told CNN it was ‘appalling and wrong’ that Greene spoke at AFPAC.
‘There’s no place in our party for any of this,’ the California Republican said. ‘This is unacceptable.’
McCarthy said he would be meeting with Greene and Gosar.
Greene defended her appearance by saying she didn’t know Fuentes – who is also an anti-Semite and Holocaust denier. He attended the ‘Unite the Right’ white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, which turned deadly.
‘I do not know Nick Fuentes. I have never heard him speak, I have never seen a video. I do not know what his views are so I am not aligned with anything that is controversial,’ Greene told CBS’ Robert Costa at CPAC Sunday. ‘I went to his event last night to address his very large following because it’s a very young following and it’s a generation I’m extremely concerned about.’
At AFPAC the crowd cheered Russian President Vladimir Putin, who’s engaging in a deadly attack on Ukraine, and Fuentes complimented the comparisons between Putin and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
‘Now they’re going on about Russia and Vladimir Putin. They say that’s not a good thing,’ Fuentes said before Greene came onstage.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was in Orlando, Florida this weekend to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference (pictured), but was a surprise guest at the white nationalist confab, the America First Political Action Conference, as well
AOC also said McCarthy ‘doesn’t want to alienate his base’ when he refused to condemn Greene’s appearance at the conference for a second day in a row. ‘You know what, I commented on that yesterday,’ he told a reporter Tuesday
McCarthy pointed out those comments as he condemned Greene’s appearance to Punchbowl News.
‘She has personally gone to answer this. But I think with that introduction, you should’ve walked off stage,’ McCarthy said.
Instead Greene entered the venue beaming, telling the crowd, ‘Well, hello canceled Americans!’
McCarthy was done talking about Greene’s appearance by Tuesday.
‘You know what, I commented on that yesterday. I understand your job, I understand what you’re trying to do, I’ve already commented on that. We’ve got a war in Europe that we’ve not had since World War II,’ McCarthy said at a press conference. ‘You can take my statement that I’ve said yesterday and play it one more time.
Ocasio-Cortez criticized that too.
‘Doesn’t want to alienate his base,’ the New York Democrat tweeted.
