Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) sent a false tweet Monday when attempting to correct a tweet that was also false.
A conservative nonprofit recently filed an FEC complaint against Ocasio-Cortez, arguing that the candidate violated campaign laws in her relationship with a PAC and business operated by her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti. Luke Thompson, vice president of the Republican analytics firm Applecart, was the first to call attention to Chakrabarti's role as architect of the opaque fundraising scheme.
Left-wing Intercept reporter Jon Schwarz noted in response that Thompson had once worked at Right to Rise, a 2016 pro-Jeb Bush super PAC that was recently fined by the FEC for accepting foreign donations. Ocasio-Cortez quote-tweeted his tweet and crowed that "the creepy org filing bogus ethics complaints against me just *actually* got hit with one of the biggest fines in FEC history."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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@AOC
Whoah: the creepy org filing bogus ethics complaints against me just *actually* got hit with one of the biggest fines in FEC history.
They “took a $1.3 million donation from Chinese corporation—breaking federal law barring foreign interference in elections”(!!!) - @annalecta
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@schwarz
Luke Thompson, the guy who kicked off the dumb campaign finance smears of @AOC, used to work for the Jeb! Super PAC Right to Rise USA.
Right to Rise was just hit with one of the biggest fines in FEC history for illegally taking $1.3 mil in Chinese money: https://interc.pt/2XRZZRW
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But as Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale and others immediately pointed out, Ocasio-Cortez's tweet is incorrect. The National Legal and Policy Center filed the FEC complaint against her, not Right to Rise.
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@ddale8
This is not true. Right to Rise, the pro-Jeb Bush Super PAC, got hit with the big fine. Three other conservative groups (at least) have filed complaints against Ocasio-Cortez, but Right to Rise isn't one of them. https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1105283983024234497 …
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@AOC
Whoah: the creepy org filing bogus ethics complaints against me just *actually* got hit with one of the biggest fines in FEC history.
They “took a $1.3 million donation from Chinese corporation—breaking federal law barring foreign interference in elections”(!!!) - @annalecta https://twitter.com/schwarz/status/1105281020675440642 …
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Ocasio-Cortez tacked on a correction tweet, clarifying that she was talking about the "same guy who operated at the org," and not Right to Rise itself.
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@AOC
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Whoah: the creepy org filing bogus ethics complaints against me just *actually* got hit with one of the biggest fines in FEC history.
They “took a $1.3 million donation from Chinese corporation—breaking federal law barring foreign interference in elections”(!!!) - @annalecta
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@AOC
(Rather same guy who operated at the org)
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But even that correction was wrong. Thompson has no affiliation with any of the organizations filing the FEC complaint.
Thompson for his part took the false allegations in stride.
Luke Thompson
@ltthompso
This owns.
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@AOC
Whoah: the creepy org filing bogus ethics complaints against me just *actually* got hit with one of the biggest fines in FEC history.
They “took a $1.3 million donation from Chinese corporation—breaking federal law barring foreign interference in elections”(!!!) - @annalecta https://twitter.com/schwarz/status/1105281020675440642 …
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CORTEZ ,,IQ of a crowbar LMAO@HER.com
http://freebeacon.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-tries-to-correct-inaccurate-tweet-with-another-inaccurate-tweet/
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Given these heavy handed and censorious responses by powerful actors, it would appear perhaps that the RussiaGate narrative is increasingly implausible to many and the only hope now for its proponents is to stifle questioning. These are dark days indeed for democracy.
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