Conservatives attacked Ocasio-Cortez over a bizarre town hall speaker. Now, a pro-Trump fringe group [View all]
Source: Washington Post
Conservatives attacked Ocasio-Cortez over a bizarre town hall speaker. Now, a pro-Trump fringe group says it planned the stunt.
By Allyson Chiu
Oct. 4, 2019 at 7:28 a.m. EDT
For most of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezs (D-N.Y.) Thursday town hall, the woman in a black jacket sat quietly in the third row. Then, as the event in Corona, N.Y., neared its end, the woman suddenly stood up and began yelling about climate change.
But were not going to be here much long because of the climate crisis, the woman blurted. We got to start eating babies, she abruptly declared, taking off her jacket to display a T-shirt that read, Save the planet. Eat the children.
The womans bizarre speech swiftly became the center of a heated Twitter fight Thursday night that pitted Ocasio-Cortez against President Trump, his son, Donald Trump Jr., and other conservatives, who suggested the woman was an example climate change hysteria. In response, Ocasio-Cortez chastised critics for trying to mock or make a spectacle of a woman who may have been suffering from a mental condition.
It now seems likely that the scene was carefully planned.
The woman was apparently part of an attempt by a right-wing fringe political group to embarrass the Democratic congresswoman. Late Thursday, a Twitter account belonging to the LaRouche PAC which was founded by conspiracy theorist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. took credit for the stunt. A historian who has documented the organization said the womans outburst was a fairly well-established tactic for them.
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