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Ocasio-Cortez: House Dems’ Refusal To Impeach Is A Bigger Scandal Than Trump’s’ ‘Law Breaking’

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested Saturday that House Democrats unwillingness to oust President Donald Trump is more scandalous than anything the president has done up to this point in his presidency.

Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive Democrats in the House have been poking and prodding the moderate members of their party to move quicker on impeachment proceedings. The New York lawmaker became more insistent Saturday night, telling her fellow Democrats to take impeachment more seriously.

“At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior – it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it,” she said in a tweet to her followers. Some of Ocasio-Cortez’s fellow Democrats dinged her on Twitter for making what they believe to be a false equivalence.

“It is one thing for a sitting president to break the law. It’s another to let him. The integrity of our democracy isn’t threatened when a president breaks the law. It‘s threatened when we do nothing about it,” the New York Democrat said in a follow-up tweet responding to the criticism.

House Democrats are trying their level-best to move forward on impeachment charges but they have not gained much headway.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is opposed to launching an impeachment inquiry and has said it would be “divisive.” She resisted a formal House vote allowing the launch of an official impeachment inquiry, but House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler suggested an official probe is underway.

Ocasio-Cortez’s relationship with Pelosi is notoriously icy. The freshman lawmaker implied in a July interview that Pelosi is racist and said the House speaker has been “disrespectful” toward “newly elected women of color” in Congress.

Pelosi, for her part, was quoted in a New York Times article in July taking a thinly veiled shot at Ocasio-Cortez and several other freshman Democrats who voted against a bill to help migrants at the border. She also dinged progressives in a private meeting that month for criticizing moderate members on social media.

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  1. First of all, Buck-tooth Bitch (!), OUR Republic (which doesn’t belong exclusively to you or “women of color”)is NOT a democracy and you have no special rights to CHANGE it. Even if it was a Democracy YOU are not the majority of Americans!!!

    You and your ilk bitches need to be arrested and tried for TREASON!! Your sedition is plainly contrary to the Supreme law of the Land, the U.S. Constitution. But you can’t even figure out what a concentration camp is let alone anything I’m talking about!

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