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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Debunks Conservative Conspiracy Theories About Her
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has never shied away from correcting her detractors, and in a late-night tweetstorm, the congresswoman addressed recent conspiracy theories that she has a poor credit score and history of evictions.
The right has gotten increasingly desperate [with] spreading targeted rumors about me lately, Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter late Friday night. Someone made up a meme that led to @snopes disproving this. (Also, I had to live alone in my familys apt after my dad died, so the eviction lie is especially bad).
Link to tweet
According to fact-checking website Snopes.com, the rumor started with Facebook user Donn Johnson, a Florida security guard, who posted the following message after Ocasio-Cortez was appointed to the powerful House Financial Services Committee: Congresswomen [sic] Cortez, from New York city, has been selected on the house finance committee, her credit score is 430 and has had two checking accounts closed, along with two sheriff evictions.
But, according to Cortez and Snopes, there is zero evidence substantiating the rumors. And, as Snopes noted, it is essentially impossible for Johnson to have obtained this information about Ocasio-Cortez. But that didnt stop the post from spreading across Facebook and the rest of social media. Johnsons post was shared more than 30,000 times. It then spread to Twitter, where on February 7th, former CitiBank bond account executive and Trump supporter John LeFevre posted about it in a tweet that was retweeted more than 38,000 times.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ocasio-cortez-financial-rumors-792454/
She sure has the right shitting themselves.
Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)It's gonna get thrown back in their faces!!!
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)this one is gonna backfire...just leave her alone FOOLS.
safeinOhio
(32,717 posts)Who has 5 or 6 bankruptcies.
Can't borrow money from American banks
Paid a $25million settlement for his university
and so on.
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)now you see how low they will go. AOC will not be the first or last they fling dirt at. Damn them dirty politics this is what the right does. Fuck them.