Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DNY, took heat Thursday after complaining she was taunted outside the Capitol. Critics blasted her for mocking Brett Kavanaugh’s harassment just days earlier.
NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles!
Less than a week after Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DNY, taunted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after protesters forced him out of a restaurant in Washington, D.C., the lawmaker complained on Twitter that he was the victim of taunts on the stairs at the Capitol building on Wednesday.
Conservative Twitter users criticized the congressman for the apparent double standard.
On Wednesday night, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: “I posted about an extremely disgusting incident that happened today on the steps of the Capitol, but took it down because it’s clearly someone seeking extremist fame.”
“It’s just sickening to work in an institution that openly allows this, but talking about it only invites more.” Just really sad,” she added. The congresswoman subsequently posted a video of political satirist Alex Stein mocking her as she walked by him on the Capitol grounds.
SUPREME COURT’S ABORTION DECISION DOES NOT PROHIBIT TREATMENT OF EXTRA-UTERINE PREGNANCY; ASKING FOR PRO-CHOICE IS DANGEROUS
A man was arrested near Judge Cavanaugh’s home in Maryland for allegedly threatening violence against justice. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
She commented: “Here’s the video he posted of the incident. I was actually going to break it, because if no one is going to protect us, I’m going to do it myself, but I needed to catch a vote more than a chance today.”
However, as several prominent conservatives pointed out on Twitter, Ocasio-Cortez mocked Judge Kavanaugh after he was forced to flee Morton’s D.C. restaurant by protesters.
Regarding this incident, the AOC tweeted: “Poor guy. He left before his soufflé because he decided that half the country should risk dying if they had an ectopic pregnancy in the wrong state borders. All this is very unfair to him. The least you could do was let him eat cake.”
The AOC’s casual remarks came just weeks after the attempted assassination of Cavanaugh by a gunman angered by the leaking of a draft Supreme Court opinion on the Dobbs case.
Real Clear Investigations senior writer Mark Hemingway blasted the AOC’s new tone, tweeting: “Four days ago she was defending protesters chasing Supreme Court justices from a private facility. Today she suggests they go after a man who said rude things about her on the steps of a public building. She should probably choose a consistent position here.
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh claims the AOC is getting “no sympathy” after the Justice Cavanaugh disparagement. He tweeted: “You defended left-wing extremists harassing Supreme Court justices in their homes, so you get absolutely no sympathy here.”
CHEVY CHASE, MD – MAY 18: Police officers watch as abortion rights advocates demonstrate outside the home of US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on May 18, 2022 in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Protests are occasionally held outside the homes of the justices who signed a draft opinion that would have overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal in the US in 1973. ((Photo by Bonnie Cash/Getty Images))
REPRESENTATIVE MAYRA FLORES CALLS AOC, DC DEMS ‘JUST SO INTERRUPTED’
“Didn’t you just welcome the bullying of Brett Kavanaugh?” asked conservative author John Hawkins. “Why do you think you deserve a pass? Maybe you should think about that the next time you’re asked if it’s okay to harass people in restaurants or in their homes,” he added.
“The whole point of protesting is to make people uncomfortable,” conservative writer Chad Felix Green tweeted, pointing to an older tweet belonging to the congressman in which she defended protesters by making people “uncomfortable.”
Expressing a similar view, The Federalist editor-in-chief David Harsani asked, “So this kind of thing isn’t ‘democracy’ anymore?”
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
“The whole point of the protest is to make ppl feel uncomfortable,” tweeted The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis, citing the AOC’s previous tweet unleashing intense protests.
Conservative commentator Carmine Sabia criticized the AOC’s double standard on the matter, tweeting: “This woman celebrates the harassment of Justice Cavanaugh.”
Ocasio-Cortez disparaged SCOTUS Justice Kavanaugh after he was forced out of a restaurant by protesters, even though she asked for sympathy for being mocked in front of the Capitol just days later.
Gabriel Hayes is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @gabrieljhays.
Add Comment