K.C. Cayo, the "activist" confronting Biden yesterday, can't keep her questionable story straight [View all]

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There's already one thread about the wannabe Twitter star here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=148002

with a very misleading subject line saying Biden confronted her. It was clear from her tweets about the incident she set up that she meant to confront him.

I'm posting a separate DU topic about this because she's now decided to add to her minutes of fame on Twitter with a ridiiculous piece written for Vice:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k3jgj/joe-biden-wagged-finger-at-activist-in-viral-twitter-photo

Her poorly staged confrontation with Biden was also mentioned in a Slate op-ed linked to in another thread here attacking Biden.

Sigh.

As with Lucy Flores's story, Cayo's story is full of holes, where she shredded her own credibility.

First of all, though she apparently had access to video of the encounter, she posted one still photo and a GIF looping a second or two of video to try to make Biden look bad.

IF his behavior had been as bad as she alleges, then actually showing her intended, desired audience video with audio would have been more convincing. But I suspect it would have undercut her claims and made it clear she was harassing him (even the photo she's posted also shows she's smirking about it).

Secondly, she can't keep her own account of the confrontation straight, in terms of what she said to him.

She tweeted this yesterday about what she said to Biden:

Link to tweet

Told Biden we need someone stronger on reproductive justice, and after his reversal on the Hyde Amendment, we asked him to protect assault survivors. He said “nobody has spoken about it, done more, or changed more than I have”. I told him we deserve better.

And when one of her followers asked her "What did you say when you said we deserve better?" she tweeted this:

Link to tweet

He brought up VAWA for no apparent reason and then turned his back on us. I shouted that after him.

As I pointed out in the earlier thread about this twit's ambush of Biden, since she'd said she brought up protecting assault survivors, the Violence Against Women Act, which Biden was responsible for, was relevant, and Cayo seems foolish pretending in that tweet that he'd brought up VAWA "for no apparent reason" when her tweets explain the reason.


Her story about that changed in the piece she wrote for Vice:

We got in Biden’s selfie line. First he got to Fran, the woman in the photo with me. She asked him if he was willing or interested in reforming and restructuring our courts. He said something noncommittal—something along the lines of, “I need to think about it.”

Then I reached out to shake his hand and pick up where she’d left off. I said, “Ok, that’s great, because we’re personally very concerned with your stance on abortion, which is a lot more conservative.” Specifically, we were concerned about his less-than-24-hour flip on the Hyde Amendment. That’s where things got confusing: His tactic to deflect us was to keep talking about the Violence Against Women Act [which established the Office on Violence Against Women and funded groups providing resources to victims of gendered violence], as if he didn’t understand what the Hyde Amendment was, so I said, “No, we’re not talking about that.” We asked him to protect survivors. Then he leaned in very close to my face, and started wagging his finger at me. He said, “Nobody has spoken about it, done more, or changed more than I have.” When he walked away I shouted after him, “We deserve better.”

We left after that because we didn’t want anything to escalate; we didn’t want to be in a shouting match.

Note that she was the one doing the shouting.

Also note that in this longer account of what happened, she's completely left out the part of her Twitter account where she admits "we asked him to protect assault survivors" before the subject of VAWA came up.

The part where she herself changed the subject from the Hyde Amendment to assault survivors, which was apparently when Biden mentioned the Violence Against Women Act. A perfectly natural time to mention it.

But in this longer account written for Vice, she's gone from saying Biden was talking about VAWA "for no apparent reason" to claiming this:

His tactic to deflect us was to keep talking about the Violence Against Women Act [which established the Office on Violence Against Women and funded groups providing resources to victims of gendered violence], as if he didn’t understand what the Hyde Amendment was.

So she's not only changing her story, she's lying about Biden's reason for bringing up VAWA.

There's nothing in her Twitter account or the account written for Vice that explains that Biden was responsible for VAWA. She doesn't give him any credit for it. I don't know if she's so ignorant she doesn't know where that legislation came from, or if she's trying to pretend it's irrelevant.

But I do know that when her story changes this much in one day, and when she shows only a second or two of an encounter she apparently has video of, then her version of events is extremely questionable and should not be accepted as true.