AOC Serves Alina Habba With A Brutal Rebuttal After Her Working Class Jab
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took a shot at Alina Habba on Thursday after the Trump White House counselor mocked her for once working as a bartender.
“I don’t care what this woman says about me — but I want you to understand that she isn’t just talking about me, she’s talking about you. She’s talking about all of us,” said the congresswoman at one of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) rallies on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Habba, in a Fox News appearance last week, joined host Sean Hannity where the two questioned whether Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) were leading the Democratic Party in “intellectual thought.”
“You were in the bar. You were in a bar. You were in a bar, AOC. Calm down. And not to have a drink, to serve one,” said Habba after Hannity sarcastically referred to Ocasio-Cortez as “such a genius.”
The remarks drew backlash on social media, and on Thursday, when the congresswoman noted that the GOP and Trump administration talk a “big” game about the working class only to let “the mask slip” every once in a while.
She went on to refer to Habba’s time serving as President Donald Trump’s personal attorney prior to the start of his second term.
“Trump hired her to speak for him so imagine what it means for our country that the president’s own lawyer cannot even conceive of a working class person being intelligent simply because of the job that they have,” she said.
“This woman could not even recognize the American dream if it was fed to her on a silver spoon.”
She argued that the “disdain” those in power have for working class people isn’t a symptom of their upbringing, rather, it’s a “shorthand” for billionaire Elon Musk and Trump’s political agenda.
Her remarks arrive just days after a new CNN poll found that Ocasio-Cortez best reflected the Democratic Party’s “core values,” according to responses from Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents.
Ocasio-Cortez, who recently ripped Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for folding on his plans to filibuster and vote against the GOP funding bill, told the crowd that Americans need a Democratic Party “that fights harder for us too” as she urged them to back “brawlers” who can beat Republicans.
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