As someone who speaks live on-air, w/o “net” — understand misspeaking. Happens to best of us.
But know no other context for this vile phrase. As someone who investigated violent street crime for years, this is vernacular of felons I’ve interrogated; not a sitting Congresswoman. https://t.co/2PeQXGFDMg
— James A. Gagliano (@JamesAGagliano) January 16, 2019
Yikes.
Via Daily Wire:
Former law enforcement officials called out socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for using a violent sexual term on Wednesday in an interview that was published in The Washington Post.
Ocasio-Cortez complained in the interview that the media was “focusing on taking quotes out of context or manipulating them or making it seem as though I said things that I didn’t say.”
A few sentences later, she said, “So enjoy being exhausted for the next two years while we run train on the progressive agenda.”
The 29-year-old former bartender, who describes herself as “Alex from the Bronx,” used the term in the following exchange: