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</font></div><div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2659307772"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although
Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk has restored Donald Trump’s
@realdonaldtrump account, the former president has so far opted to keep
his own Truth Social as his primary social media outlet. But Trump rival
Ron DeSantis, who may be competing with him in 2024’s GOP presidential
primary if he decides to run, is — according to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-secret-twitter-army-of-far-right-influencers?ref=home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">the Daily Beast’s Jake Lahut</a> — being aggressively promoted on social media, including Twitter, by his “digital army” of “conservative influencers.” </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-secret-twitter-army-of-far-right-influencers?ref=home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">article published on January 25</a>,
Lahut reports that bombarding social media with DeSantis-related posts
is a “core element of the DeSantis team’s political strategy as he gears
up for a possible run for the presidency in 2024.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“According to
five Republicans familiar with the discussions,” Lahut reports, “<b>the
governor’s top lieutenants have quietly recruited a network of
conservative social media influencers as part of a broader attempt to
circumvent the mainstream press and appeal directly to GOP primary
voters nationwide.”</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE:</strong> <a href="https://www.alternet.org/ron-desantis-2658989645/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked"><strong>How 'authoritarian' Ron DeSantis has made Florida a 'laboratory of fascist politics': scholar</strong></a></font></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those pro-DeSantis influencers, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-secret-twitter-army-of-far-right-influencers?ref=home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">according to Lahut</a>,
include podcast host <b>Jack Murphy,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> former Newsmax host John Cardillo</span>,
and Herschel Walker’s son Christian Walker</b>. Others, Lahut writes, are
Caleb Hull (a former Donald Trump digital strategist who, Lahut writes,
has “said some very, very racist things”) and David Reaboi, described by
Lahut as “Hungary-loving and Qatar-hating bodybuilder with longstanding
ties to<b> John Bolton</b>”). </font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This is the DeSantis A-team,” <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-secret-twitter-army-of-far-right-influencers?ref=home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">Lahut explains</a>,
“and they’re fighting a battle for a presidential campaign that hasn’t
even started yet — with plenty of DeSantis face time, dinners, and photo
ops…. The effort has picked up steam ever since Christina Pushaw,
DeSantis’ perennially online rapid response director, moved from the
governor’s office to his campaign in August of last year.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A “conservative influencer,” interviewed on condition of anonymity, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-secret-twitter-army-of-far-right-influencers?ref=home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">told the Daily Beast</a>,
“A friend of mine in Miami told me Christina was recruiting people to, I
guess, promote DeSantis on social media. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They started doing a sprawling
influencer campaign…. It’s not a lot of the big influencers, I don’t
know if you’d call them mid-tier influencers or micro-influencers — I
think it’s a ragtag band of misfits, quite frankly. It’s like a lot of
these washed-up MAGA people who either sell their soul, or are a little,
uh, out there.”</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A different right-wing “influencer,” quoted
anonymously, told the Beast, “They’re not sending their best, OK? They
all live in Miami. They hang out with Christina daily. She feeds them
all the narratives and the talking points, and that’s basically her
role…. trying to control the narrative on social media.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/donald-trump-is-so-done" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked">'He is so done': Ann Coulter doubles down on Republicans to abandon Donald Trump</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read the Daily Beast’s <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-secret-twitter-army-of-far-right-influencers?ref=home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">full story at this link</a>.</font></p></div>
</div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===<br /></font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===<br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-trump-pundit-john-cardillo-accused-of-pocketing-dollar200k-meant-for-ukraine-body-armor">https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-trump-pundit-john-cardillo-accused-of-pocketing-dollar200k-meant-for-ukraine-body-armor</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">tdb</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></font></font></font></div><div>Pro-Trump Pundit Accused of Pocketing $200K Meant for Ukraine Body Armor</div><div>YIKES</div><div><b>In a lawsuit filed in Florida, conservative pundit John Cardillo is accused of making off with nearly $200,000 meant to purchase body armor for Ukrainian police officers.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Will Sommer</div><div>Politics Reporter</div><div>Zachary Petrizzo</div><div>Politics Reporter</div><div>Updated Sep. 15, 2022 10:31AM ET / Published Sep. 15, 2022 </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pro-Trump pundit John Cardillo is known for his pugnacious Twitter commentary, once dubbing Joe Biden’s relationship with his son Hunter “creepy.” A former Newsmax TV host, Cardillo is prominent enough on the right to recently dine at the Florida governor’s mansion with potential 2024 contender Ron DeSantis.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But Cardillo has a little-known second job as an arms dealer operating in the former Eastern bloc, selling ammunition and body armor under the name M42 Tactical from his Fort Lauderdale home. According to a recently filed lawsuit, he doesn’t always deliver and now stands accused of stiffing Ukraine’s embattled government on a delivery of almost $200,000 in body armor.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>In court papers, the company describes itself as an importer and wholesaler of “rifle and handgun ammunition.” On its website, the company touts its access to Serbian and Russian-made small arms ammunition.</div><div><br /></div><div>(After this story was published, Cardillo informed The Daily Beast that his website was incorrect and his company has never sold Russian-made bullets.)</div><div><br /></div><div>For Florida resident Michael Bogachek, those credentials made M42 Tactical a natural fit for a contract in the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine. The Ukrainian-born Bogachek was shocked by tales of Russian atrocities committed during the first days of the war, and wanted to support his homeland. According to Bogachek, Cardillo said he could obtain body armor from Serbia and send it to Ukraine.</div><div><br /></div><div>On March 11, Bogachek contracted with Cardillo’s company to buy 250 body-armor kits capable of withstanding an AK-47 shot for $196,250 and deliver them to the Ukrainian police. M42 Tactical promised to deliver it to the Ukrainian police by April 20, according to an invoice.</div><div><br /></div><div>By late May, though, the body armor still had not reached Ukraine, according to court papers filed by Bogachek. On May 27, Bogachek sued Cardillo and his company in Florida.The suit alleged that the conservative pundit had made off with his nearly $200,000 payment, leaving Ukrainian police officers without the protection he purchased for them.</div><div><br /></div><div>U.S. Customs and Border Protection Retweets MAGA Maven</div><div>TWITTER TROUBLE</div><div><br /></div><div>Cardillo claimed in a court filing that he couldn’t fulfill the order because Bogachek couldn’t provide an end-user certificate, a legal document often required in the arms trade to ensure that weapons or armor will go to their intended destination.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bogachek’s lawyer, José M. Ferrer, disputed that defense, pointing out that the invoice doesn’t mention an “end-user certificate.” The invoice states that “end to end logistics” were already included in the order price, which Ferrer argues means includes the price of any end-user certificate.</div><div><br /></div><div>“We will be pursuing vigorous discovery to find out how M42 actually used the money,” Ferrer told The Daily Beast.</div><div><br /></div><div>Cardillo’s lawyers fired back, claiming that he met his contractual obligations. In their telling, the body armor exists and has been waiting at the manufacturer’s loading dock for months.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Mr. Cardillo has been asking Mr. Bogachek for over six months to provide a final delivery address and End User Certificate,” Cardillo’s lawyers, Tom Mersch and Dennis Klein, said in a statement.</div><div><br /></div><div>The lawyers representing the former Newsmax host went on in their statement to reiterate the claim that Bogachek has failed to provide the necessary paperwork.</div><div><br /></div><div>“As a result, Ukrainians go without protection that could have and should have reached them months ago,” the statement said. “The fault for THAT rests firmly on the shoulders (and conscience) of Mr. Bogachek and his attorney Mr. Ferrer.”</div><div><br /></div><div>“We intend to vigorously defend our client from these baseless allegations,” they concluded.</div><div><br /></div><div>M42 Tactical is facing other financial issues. The arms company sued one of its suppliers in a New York federal court last month, alleging that the supplier had botched a September 2021 deal, costing M42 Tactical a $47 million contract for 180 million bullets and even causing “the global destabilization of the ammunition market.”</div><div><br /></div><div>This isn’t the first time Cardillo or a business he owns or controls has ended up in court after allegedly failing to meet his business obligations.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2015, Cardillo, a former New York Police Department officer, was incensed by comments film director Quentin Tarantino made about police during a rally in New York City. Cardillo and a former ex-NYPD officer agreed to split the $17,500 cost of a tabloid ad calling on Tarantino to change his views about police by going on a ride-along. But Cardillo’s partner later accused the radio host of stiffing him on his share of the bill for the ad, successfully suing Cardillo for a final judgment for $10,803.76.</span></div><div>Will Sommer</div><div><br /></div><div><b>In 2016, iHeartMedia sued a business owned by Cardillo for $16,274.28 in debts related to his talk radio show. The radio giant won the case, and eventually secured a writ garnishing the Cardillo business’ bank accounts until the judgment was paid.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Then Cardillo wouldn’t pay his own lawyer in the iHeartMedia case, according to a lawsuit filed by his lawyer. That attorney then turned on his one-time client and sued Cardillo himself in 2017 for unpaid legal bills worth $8,684.83. The outcome of that case is unclear—as of November 2021, the lawyer was struggling to serve Cardillo with court papers.</div><div><br /></div><div>“iHeart’s attorney and our attorney, we never filed a response because iHeart owed us some money for clips they were using,” Cardillo told The Daily Beast. “Their attorney agreed with us. They actually owned us a little more than we owed them. We decided to just wash our hands of each other and call it a day.”</div><div><br /></div><div>In tweets to his nearly 300,000 Twitter followers, Cardillo often alludes to trips to Serbia, which he describes as a hotbed of MAGA sentiment. In February, he tweeted that “a bunch of millennials” in a Serbian bar bought him shots of alcohol before toasting in former President Donald Trump’s honor.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While Cardillo cut a deal to provide armor to the Ukrainian government, he’s been less than supportive of the embattled country in the past. As Russian troops massed on Ukraine’s border in February, <b>Cardillo tweeted that he “couldn’t care less” whether Russia invaded.</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Just send us their hot women and call it a day,” Cardillo wrote.</span></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jerome-corsi-and-larry-klayman-threaten-to-sue-gateway-pundit/">http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jerome-corsi-and-larry-klayman-threaten-to-sue-gateway-pundit/</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx twit</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Jerome Corsi and Larry Klayman Threaten to Sue Gateway Pundit</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Jared Holt | January 31, 2019 1:01 pm</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jerome Corsi and one of his lawyers are waging threats to sue against The Gateway Pundit, an outlet that has been overwhelmingly supportive of Corsi before he began singing to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators in the Justice Department probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. <b>Corsi admits that he corroborated evidence that the Mueller team had involving the interactions he had with Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone, </b>who was arraigned on Tuesday, with regard to the WikiLeaks dumps of emails hacked from the Clinton campaign by Russian intelligence operatives.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Larry Klayman, the estranged founder of Judicial Watch who is representing Corsi as he processes through Mueller’s probe, appeared on NewsmaxTV yesterday with host John Cardillo to spar with Gateway Pundit contributor Cassandra Fairbanks, who had taken to Twitter the day before to call Corsi “a deranged old man,” and to criticize Mueller for taking information from him. Corsi is also represented by New Jersey attorney David Gray.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(Screenshot/Twitter)</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s worth noting that many in Stone’s orbit—a right-wing media universe that includes Fairbanks—have sought to smear and discredit Corsi, believing that the former Infowars writer is directly responsible for Stone’s ensnarement in the Mueller probe. Stone was indicted last Friday for allegedly lying to federal officials about his communications with senior Trump campaign officials about WikiLeaks releases that were published during the summer before the 2016 election. Corsi and Stone are currently threatening to sue each other for defamation.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“All of this is kind of smoke. It means nothing in terms of what Mueller has and Roger should take it seriously,” Klayman said. “Dr. Corsi has been the hero here. He’s actually sued Robert Mueller twice with criminal complaints, with civil complaints. I haven’t seen Roger do that.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last year, Corsi filed a lawsuit against Mueller accusing that the special counsel of goading him to provide false testimony and of leaking grand jury secrets.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On Newsmax TV, Fairbanks defended WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, </b>with whom she has a personal relationship, and argued that Corsi could not be considered a credible source on WikiLeaks. She went on to assert that Corsi had made numerous false predictions about WikiLeaks releases, had plagiarized her work to promote QAnon conspiracy theories, and had “no basic understanding” of how WikiLeaks operates. She also pointed out that Corsi once solicited charity donations to pay a cancer doctor that didn’t exist.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The fact that anybody is taking him seriously at all makes me completely just—it makes me laugh,” Fairbanks said.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Klayman told Cardillo that Corsi wouldn’t hesitate to bring defamation cases and that “we can sort this out in court if she wants to get to the bottom of it.” That was echoed by Corsi on Twitter, where he claimed that Gateway Pundit owner Jim Hoft had been “put on legal notice,” and that he had demanded the outlet issue a retraction of Fairbanks’ claims.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(Screenshot/Twitter)</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fairbanks told Right Wing Watch that no legal notice was sent.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We didn’t receive legal notice. He and his lawyer called my boss ratting on me, threatening lawsuits and saying they were going to Mueller about me,” she wrote to us via email. “I told Jim to tell them to contact my lawyer, as I am only a contributor to Gateway and it doesn’t really concern him. Corsi’s lawyer is just an idiot.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Klayman did not answer our request for comment via email.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(Article updated at 1:58 p.m.)</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tags: Cassandra Fairbanks Jerome Corsi Larry Klayman Media Russia Investigation Gateway Pundit InfoWars</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==<br /></font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/07/03/a-failed-republican-attack-on-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-offers-a-lesson-for-democrats/?utm_term=.8829269e1b04</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A failed Republican attack on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez offers a lesson for Democrats</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Helaine Olen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Opinion writer</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 3, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, suddenly a star after her surprise victory in a Democratic primary, is now under attack. Of course she is! She ran on a platform of Medicare for all, free tuition at public universities and an increased minimum wage — and emerged the victor over a New York Democrat with a prominent position in the House leadership.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">First, we were warned her avowed socialism and calls for economic justice wouldn’t play in the Midwest. When that didn’t seem to take, John Cardillo, the host of the Newsmax show “America Talks Live” stepped forward on Sunday to brand Ocasio-Cortez a phony. Never mind that hard-luck story about almost losing a home to foreclosure after her father died; never mind the fact that her mom worked as a housekeeper; and never mind the fact Ocasio-Cortez needed student loans to get through college.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">View image on Twitter</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Cardillo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@johncardillo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4,228</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8:46 AM - Jul 1, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6,592 people are talking about this</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twitter Ads info and privacy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ocasio-Cortez, you see, claimed to be a native of the Bronx despite the fact that her parents, like many seekers of the American Dream, moved to suburban Westchester County before their daughter began kindergarten, so they could take advantage of the better schools. The horror!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ocasio-Cortez was having no part of it, and punched back hard and fast:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Cardillo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@johncardillo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> · Jul 1, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">View image on Twitter</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@AOC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hey John,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1. I didn’t go to Brown or the Ivy League. I went to BU. Try Google.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2. It is nice. Growing up, it was a good town for working people. My mom scrubbed toilets so I could live here & I grew up seeing how the zip code one is born in determines much of their opportunity.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">79.1K</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9:53 AM - Jul 1, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twitter Ads info and privacy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12.4K people are talking about this</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And, with that, Ocasio-Cortez showed how to change a conversation that’s been with us for decades.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republicans like to claim that Democrats are hypocrites when they talk about the struggles of working Americans. Ocasio-Cortez, refusing to apologize for growing up in a home her family owned, found herself the recipient of some surprising support, with people such as former tea-party-Republican congressman Joe Walsh quickly stepping forward to tweet support for her. “She & I probably disagree on every single policy issue. But I respect the hell out of her. Those attacking her personally are making a mistake. Debate her ideas.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But they don’t do that for a reason: The “hypocrisy” attack is easier.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The limousine liberal attack is long-established in the Republican playbook. Wealthy Republicans born on third base or home plate can claim working-class credit because like, say, President Trump, they enjoy fast food. But Democrats are forever branded as hypocrites for expressing concern about poverty or middle-income woes if they didn’t grow up in a log cabin.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">many pix twit</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Newsmax host elevates far-right conspiracy theory accusing two Democratic presidential candidates of staging a hate crime</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blog ››› 2 hours 41 min ago ››› ALEX KAPLAN</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">293</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Melissa Joskow / Media Matters</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Newsmax TV and Rebel Media host John Cardillo amplified a far-right conspiracy theory that originated from message boards and social media accounts and accuses Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) of staging the alleged anti-queer and racist attack against actor Jussie Smollett. The conspiracy theory contends that the senators' intent in drawing attention to a case like Smollet's was to help pass their proposed anti-lynching legislation. The baseless claim connects with the far-right narrative that Smollett's alleged attack -- which reportedly included the attackers wrapping a rope around the Empire star’s neck -- was a hoax in efforts to minimize the importance of anti-lynching legislation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Harris and Booker, both of whom recently announced their 2020 presidential candidacies, introduced the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018 with Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) last summer. The bill, which unanimously passed in the Senate, would classify lynching as a federal hate crime. Earlier attempts to pass anti-lynching legislation in Congress failed repeatedly during the 19th and 20th centuries when the act of racial terrorism was widespread across the country. Both Harris and Booker have called the attack on Smollett a “modern-day lynching.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here’s how the conspiracy theory bubbled up from the fever swamps to Cardillo’s Twitter feed:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twitter account @hankentwhistle:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4chan’s “politically incorrect” message board known as /pol/:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">YouTube:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reddit’s “r/conspiracy” forum:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4chan’s /pol/:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reddit’s “r/The_Donald”:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Voat, a Reddit clone populated mostly by alt-right trolls:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gab:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Multiple Twitter accounts:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Newsmax TV host John Cardillo:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Short Link</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://mm4a.org/4s6</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">copy link</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted In</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Diversity & Discrimination</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Network/Outlet</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4chan, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Gab</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Person</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Cardillo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stories/Interests</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fake News, Alt-right and pro-Trump trolls</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">tabloid? 2015?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2899325/Ex-NYPD-cop-pointed-gun-Twitter-selfie-response-blackbrunch-suggests-protesters-committed-hate-crimes.html</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no pix linx vid</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Move along now, I'm really enjoying these Eggs Benedict': Ex-NYPD cop sparks outrage with gun-selfie response to #blackbrunch protests</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Cardillo, a former New York officer who served in the 1990s, is now a self-styled, right-wing media commentator </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He posted a picture on Twitter pointing a gun and the message: 'I'm really enjoying these Eggs Benedict so move along now. #BlackBrunchNYC' </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr Cardillo, 45, who lives in Florida, said on Tuesday that it was 'ludicrous' to suggest he was threatening protesters by posting the photo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also said of the protesters: 'I found those protesters to be blatant racists because they targeted ''white faces'''</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By LOUISE BOYLE FOR MAILONLINE</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PUBLISHED: 15:49 EST, 6 January 2015 | UPDATED: 17:24 EST, 6 January 2015</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> e-mail </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">82</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">shares</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">66</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">View comments</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A former cop who posted a picture on Twitter of himself pointing a gun has denied the photo was a threat against anti-police violence protesters and claimed that the activists were 'blatant racists' for demonstrating in places they deemed 'white spaces'.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Cardillo, who served as an officer with the NYPD in the 1990s, is now a self-styled, right-wing media commentator and runs a data analytics company.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Sunday, demonstrators showed up at popular brunch spots in New York and California to protest the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Carrying banners, the chanting activists entered a number of venues that they had identified as 'white spaces'.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response, Mr Cardillo took a selfie in his American flag baseball cap, with the camera looking down the barrel of a gun. He added the words: 'I'm really enjoying these Eggs Benedict so move along now. #BlackBrunchNYC'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scroll down for video </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Inflammatory: Former cop John Cardillo posted this picture on Twitter in response to anti-police violence protesters storming restaurants in New York and California on Sunday, organized by #BlackBrunchNYC<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>+3</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Inflammatory: Former cop John Cardillo posted this picture on Twitter in response to anti-police violence protesters storming restaurants in New York and California on Sunday, organized by #BlackBrunchNYC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The chanting #BlackBrunchNYC activists entered a number of venues that they identified as 'white spaces' on Sunday to protest police violence, including the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>+3</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The chanting #BlackBrunchNYC activists entered a number of venues that they identified as 'white spaces' on Sunday to protest police violence, including the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr Cardillo, 45, who now lives in Florida, told Daily Mail Online on Tuesday that it was 'ludicrous' to suggest he was threatening protesters with a picture of himself raising and pointing the gun.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He said: 'My photo is protected by the First Amendment. I was sitting in my own home, with no one else there, pointing an unloaded firearm.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'I published the photo as an experiment to expose the left-wing protest community - those people who support violence, encourage and cheer the murder of police officers, along with rioting and looting.'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'Those same people who were offended by my photograph, weren't offended by people being hurt in the real world.' </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr Cardillo said that he was a fan of legitimate protests - even if he didn't agree with the message. However he slammed the activists who descended on restaurants on Sunday.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He said: 'I don't support what they were doing because they entered private businesses and harassed people.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'I found those protesters to be blatant racists because they targeted ''white faces.'' What is more racist than finding a place that certain races go to and targeting those places?' </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video playing bottom right...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Click here to expand to full page</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr Cardillo said on Tuesday that Sunday's protesters were blatant racists because they targeted 'white faces' <span style="white-space:pre"> </span>+3</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr Cardillo said on Tuesday that Sunday's protesters were blatant racists because they targeted 'white faces' </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'A war on black lives': Alongside an image of protesters inside a New York restaurant, Sharmin Ultra (above) tweeted: 'We interrupt your brunch time to let you know there is a war on Black lives. We will not stay silent'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'A war on black lives': Alongside an image of protesters inside a New York restaurant, Sharmin Ultra (above) tweeted: 'We interrupt your brunch time to let you know there is a war on Black lives. We will not stay silent'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Zane Jones offered a simple message to Mr Cardillo on Twitter following his gun selfie picture </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Zane Jones offered a simple message to Mr Cardillo on Twitter following his gun selfie picture </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr Cardillo added: 'You could argue because of the level of criminal harassment that their actions were hate crimes.'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The former police officer went on to say that he did not believe that his Twitpic was inflammatory but was 'controversial', adding that it had brought him widespread media coverage. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He said that he felt the image had nothing to do with his former job as a member of the NYPD. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He added: 'It's my First Amendment right and was absolutely the right thing to do. I posted the picture to spark debate. It's controversial but harmless.'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However some fellow Twitter users appeared to disagree with the former cop's defiant stance. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?@TillmanRaymond tweeted: 'should protesters take this as a threat for there lives? B/c it would taken as one for cops if they did this.'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While ?@zanejones426 wrote: 'some people just don't get it there enough pain in the usa right now think I pray u and other just grow up.'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Twitter user called Ted wasn't pleased with the disruption and tweeted: 'How dare folks go out for an omelette with friends and family on a Sunday! #BlackBrunchNYC #BlackBrunch'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Twitter user called Ted wasn't pleased with the disruption and tweeted: 'How dare folks go out for an omelette with friends and family on a Sunday! #BlackBrunchNYC #BlackBrunch'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dozens of demonstrators stormed restaurants and targeted white diners in New York and California as part of a 'Black Brunch' protest against alleged police violence at the weekend.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Once inside, they 'disrupted' customers' meals by reading out the names of African-Americans killed by police, including Michael Brown, 17, who was shot dead by officer Darren Wilson last August.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Addressing staff and patrons, they shouted: 'Every 28 hours, a black person in America is killed by the police. These are our brothers and sisters. Today and every day, we honor their lives.'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Throughout the day, many of the three dozen protesters - who also targeted 'predominantly white' restaurants in Oakland, California - posted photos of the 'Black Brunch' demonstration online.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RELATED ARTICLES</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Previous</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Next</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They misled us: Ferguson grand juror sues claiming...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'Don't blame yourselves, I used you': Note left by man who...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Surveillance footage shows the moment Bronx armed robbery...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hero cops save suicidal wife from taking an overdose on...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SHARE THIS ARTICLE</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Share</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">82 shares</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alongside an image of protesters inside a New York restaurant, Sharmin Ultra, tweeted: 'We interrupt your brunch time to let you know there is a war on Black lives. We will not stay silent.'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although the demonstration were largely peaceful - with no arrests made - there were reports of protesters getting into heated discussions with staff and customers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And while many have applauded the nonviolent tactic online, other social media users mocked it and some have even criticized the protests as 'pathetic' and 'ridiculous'.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bob Owens said: '#BlackBrunchNYC is the most desperate and pathetic cry for relevance I've seen in a long time.'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And a user called Ted added: 'How dare folks go out for an omelette with friends and family on a Sunday! #BlackBrunchNYC #BlackBrunch.'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bob Owens said the protest was 'the most desperate and pathetic cry for relevance I've seen in a long time'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bob Owens said the protest was 'the most desperate and pathetic cry for relevance I've seen in a long time'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">early marie claire mag</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you haven't yet heard of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you soon will. The 28-year-old powerhouse is running for congresswoman in New York’s 14th District. O already won her primary on June 26, and now she's fighting to unseat longtime incumbent Joe Crowley.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Latina from the Bronx, as well as a former Bernie Sanders organizer, Ocasio-Cortez self-describes as a “Democratic socialist.” When pressed about this identifier, Ocasio-Cortez explained to Stephen Colbert on The Late Show: “I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Basically, Ocasio-Cortez is a force to be reckoned with. Since her political rise plunged her into the public eye, however, a few Twitter-centric spats and bumps have sprung up; commentators and conservative politicians alike have attempted to undermine her popularity.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And here's how she responded.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 1</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative TV host John Cardillo tweeted a Google Street View picture of Ocasio-Cortez’s childhood home, claiming that it is a “far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling.” He wrote, as a description of the picture, that “this is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">View image on Twitter</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">View image on Twitter</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Cardillo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@johncardillo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4,228</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8:46 AM - Jul 1, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6,592 people are talking about this</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twitter Ads info and privacy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cardillo’s choice to share images of a congressional candidate’s childhood home on Twitter speaks volumes about the political climate we exist in—and how it exists, at least partially, on social media. Ocasio-Cortez belittled his Tweet with her own.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Cardillo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@johncardillo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> · Jul 1, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">View image on Twitter</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@AOC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hey John,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1. I didn’t go to Brown or the Ivy League. I went to BU. Try Google.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2. It is nice. Growing up, it was a good town for working people. My mom scrubbed toilets so I could live here & I grew up seeing how the zip code one is born in determines much of their opportunity.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">79.1K</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9:53 AM - Jul 1, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twitter Ads info and privacy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12.4K people are talking about this</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@AOC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> · Jul 1, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Replying to @johncardillo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hey John,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1. I didn’t go to Brown or the Ivy League. I went to BU. Try Google.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2. It is nice. Growing up, it was a good town for working people. My mom scrubbed toilets so I could live here & I grew up seeing how the zip code one is born in determines much of their opportunity.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@AOC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3. Your attempt to strip me of my family, my story, my home, and my identity is exemplary of how scared you are of the power of all four of those things.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">65.4K</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9:54 AM - Jul 1, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twitter Ads info and privacy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10.7K people are talking about this</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 21</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Florida Representative Ron DeSantis, Republican, referred to Ocasio-Cortez in a speech as “this girl... or whatever she is." He then proceeded to undermine her campaign and general intelligence: “She’s in a totally different universe… It’s basically socialism wrapped in ignorance.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter in response, wielding a few choice words about what, exactly, she is.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@AOC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Rep DeSantis, it seems you‘re confused as to “whatever I am.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I am a Puerto Rican woman. It‘s strange you don’t know what that is, given that ~75,000 Puerto Ricans have relocated to Florida in the 10 mos since María.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But I’m sure these new FL voters appreciate your comments!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amanda Terkel</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@aterkel</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GOP Rep. calls Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “this girl…or whatever she is” http://bit.ly/2v5I3px by @jbendery</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">49.8K</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">11:52 AM - Jul 23, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twitter Ads info and privacy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12.8K people are talking about this</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nydia M. Velázquez, incumbent congresswoman of New York’s 7th District, came quickly in defense of Ocasio-Cortez. Girl power.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nydia M Velázquez</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@ReElectNydia</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> .@rondesantisFL who is running for Gov in FL has called @Ocasio2018 "this girl...or whatever she is." </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She isn't a girl, she's a woman and soon she will be a Congresswoman. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You should apologize not just to her, but to all the women in Florida your comments have offended.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6,992</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2:56 PM - Jul 23, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twitter Ads info and privacy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1,197 people are talking about this</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 24</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative Review TV (CRTV) spliced Ocasio-Cortez’s PBS interview with Margaret Hoover with fake questions from a CRTV “interviewer.” Ocasio-Cortez responded, per usual, with a fantastic Tweet. “Here’s one bonafide truth,” she writes. “Election day is November 6th.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@AOC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Republicans are so scared of me that they’re faking videos and presenting them as real on Facebook because they can’t deal with reality anymore.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here’s one bonafide truth: </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Election Day is November 6th.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shane Goldmacher</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@ShaneGoldmacher</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This faked interview of @Ocasio2018 by @CRTV has nearly 1 million views on Facebook. In less than 24 hours. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interview didn't happen. It takes clips from @MargaretHoover's show and edits in faux questions. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not labeled satire (other than a ?? emoji).https://www.facebook.com/allieCRTV/videos/2289485394657512/ …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">48.8K</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5:34 AM - Jul 24, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twitter Ads info and privacy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">29.8K people are talking about this</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shane Goldmacher, chief political correspondent of the New York Times Metro Desk, also responded to the video on Twitter.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shane Goldmacher</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@ShaneGoldmacher</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> This faked interview of @Ocasio2018 by @CRTV has nearly 1 million views on Facebook. In less than 24 hours. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interview didn't happen. It takes clips from @MargaretHoover's show and edits in faux questions. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not labeled satire (other than a ?? emoji).https://www.facebook.com/allieCRTV/videos/2289485394657512/ …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5,562</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5:17 AM - Jul 24, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twitter Ads info and privacy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6,220 people are talking about this</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Flashback to July 10: Ocasio-Cortez won the primary in her neighboring 15th District, that day, too, in a write-in campaign.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She’s not even running in that district.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@AOC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Shockingly - and I’m told this is not a joke - we have ALSO won a primary in the neighboring 15th Congressional District via write-in campaign on the Reform line!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While I am honored that so many Bronxites are excited about our campaign, I will remain the Dem nominee for NY-14.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ken lovett</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@klnynews</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EXCLUSIVE: @Ocasio2018 with another surprise election win - in a district she wasn't even running in http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ocasio-cortez-serrano-crowley-reform-20180710-story.html …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">35K</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4:25 PM - Jul 10, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twitter Ads info and privacy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6,921 people are talking about this</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RELATED STORY</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div></div></div>