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[Analysis] AOC's questions years ago helped spark the investigation into Trump's business. Now, he's been ordered to pay $355 million. (www.businessinsider.com)

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In 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned Michael Cohen about Donald Trump. Cohen's answers eventually led to Letitia James's fraud lawsuit.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I love that for both of them.

[+] an0nym0us 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

…what…?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lots of ‘burn it all to the ground’ users on lemmy I’ve found. They hate democrats so much that they end up being republican in the end. I try and ignore them, but there’s a handful each time a democrat is mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kbin user for the record.

I invite you to embrace that Democracy is not binary, and "people who hate democrats so they (sound/are) republican, so I ignore them" is a stupid way to look at it, and causes an immense amount of harm to the society as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There’s no winning on this site. I’d love a multi-party system, but our current set-up isn’t like that. Right now I’d like to keep what very little bodily autonomy I have as a woman. I’ve voted and protested for years. I don’t care if you think I’m ’harming society as a whole’ because of my singular comment. I’m honestly done. I really can’t take this anymore. Yes, I will be voting democrat because the other option is too dire to consider, and that’s if I make it that long. I’m glad you were able to sum up my entire being due to one response to a user asking ‘what’. I’m glad you’ve laid this blame at my feet and called me stupid to boot. Every user is (hopefully) a human being and I just can’t stand how hostile everyone is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Correct, but not how I think you are framing it.

AOC, one of the 5 not corrupt members of the DNC, but the longer she stays in bed with them, the more fleas she will accumulate.

She is eligible for this Presidential election. She should go for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Possibly her contribution was important, but tbh it's also generally easy to cherry pick records to invent narratives like this.

Ocasio-Cortez again asked Cohen if the former president had ever inflated his assets. "Yes," Cohen answered.

This fraud was already documented at the time by journalists. Do you call this the "beginning", then? Also, Cohen was collaborating with authorities. Would the investigation not happen without that testimony?

Although AOC contributed there, this article is rather shallow as it misses the bigger picture where AOC was not in the center in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I watched this live and you couldn't be more obtuse. NO ONE else in the room was following this line of questioning. Sure reporters could have uncovered all of this eventually but she had the presence of mind to know this was under oath so it could move the prosecution along much faster.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing your personal opinion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The NYT broke this story around 2017/2018 I'll try to find the link

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Journalist Craig Unger at least mentioned this in 2018 in his book House of Trump, House of Putin. Likely that book is not the original source on this, so there should be some earlier one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And nothing happened until AOC did something with Cohen under oath. You guys seem to think those are holding equal weight.

Let's be clear. A nyt article most of the time doesn't do shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nah... how do you argue it's not a coincidence? There are likely hundreds of people who worked hard to make this outcome possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

More please.