As Twitchy told you, Luke Thompson has roared back from being punished by Twitter for questioning Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s boyfriend having a House email account in a big way. After doing some further digging, Thompson discovered that Brand New Congress Super PAC, a liberal super PAC, paid AOC’s boyfriend Riley Roberts $6,000 to be its sole “marketing consultant,” despite the fact that Roberts had no marketing expertise. And Roberts’ two $3,000 payments just so happened to bookend a $6,191.32 payment from AOC’s campaign to Brand New Congress, despite the campaign being in the financial hole.
In short, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to have an ethics problem — with a healthy dose of hypocrisy, of course.
At absolutely kindest, this proves that AOC is guilty of precisely the sort of legalized corruption and wheeling and dealing that she regularly rails against https://t.co/LzeUjOO71t
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) February 20, 2019
It also proves that many of our best and bravest firefighters really suck at their jobs.
(This is the part where you Journos start calling her office for comment)
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) February 20, 2019
Maybe we can start with WaPo’s Reis Thebault, who was responsible for this take turning AOC’s super-sketchy behavior into evidence of conservatives’ obsession with her:
Conservatives can’t stop obsessing over Ocasio-Cortez. Their latest target: her boyfriend. https://t.co/6I6pScdL9f
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 16, 2019
Thompson shared his findings earlier today, and Thebault hasn’t said a damn thing. Why is that?
This whole piece is super embarrassing for the journalists who ACTUALLY COVERED THIS STORY.
They ended up only parroting back AOC's comments, and didn't actually do any research into anything https://t.co/MksBt2Mtqo— PoliMath (@politicalmath) February 20, 2019
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Real Journalists™ don’t have time for research, apparently.
Seriously, read this piece.@ReisThebault did literally nothing except blame conservatives for pointing this out and printing the AOC line as truth.
He didn't look into a single other source.
Not one.https://t.co/ox8aVmzbrm— PoliMath (@politicalmath) February 20, 2019
Hey @ReisThebault, remember when you wrote an entire article about @ltthompso "attacking" AOC's boyfriend and never bothered to check to see if @ltthompso had a point?
He did your work for you.
Read it.https://t.co/DaVecMH9e3
— RBe (@RBPundit) February 20, 2019
And, @ReisThebault, if you had an ounce of integrity in your body, you'd retweet the link and write a follow up article on it.
That is if you have an ounce of integrity in your body.
Which I'm certain that you don't.https://t.co/DaVecMH9e3
— RBe (@RBPundit) February 20, 2019
We haven’t seen evidence of it so far. No links to Thompson’s thread anywhere on Thebault’s Twitter feed. Sharing Thompson’s findings would be the least Thebault could do. The very least.
Is ANYONE in the mainstream media going to ask @AOC about her shady money moves?
Anyone? https://t.co/k5f36XvCR9
— RBe (@RBPundit) February 20, 2019
Probably best not to hold your breath.
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