AOC Accuses Trump And Musk of Having ‘Disdain’ For Working Americans — Cites Alina Habba Jab About Her Serving Drinks
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) joined Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at a rally in Las Vegas on Thursday and accused the Trump administration of having “disdain” for working-class Americans, citing a recent jab from Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba.
“For all the big talk that Republicans and the Trump administration like to flap about working people, if you actually listen carefully, every once in a while they let the mask slip about what they actually think about us. You know, just last week, at President Trump’s lawyer, her name is Alina Habba,” Ocasio-Cortez said as the crowd booed.
“She went on television, and when she actually had to be faced with explaining her job, and when she actually had to be faced with doing her job, this is what she had to say. Quote, ‘What intellectual thought,’ when she was asked about me. Quote, ‘What intellectual thought. You were in a bar. You were in a bar, AOC. And not to have a drink, but to serve one,’” she said as the crowd booed again, adding:
I want you all to understand… I don’t care what this woman says about me, but… Thank you. Thank you again. But I want you to understand that she isn’t just talking about me here. She’s talking about you. She’s talking about all of us. Because the entire job of the president’s lawyer is to speak for him. 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.
This woman could not even recognize the American dream if it was fed to her on a silver spoon. But understand that this kind of disdain for working people by the most powerful people in this country doesn’t just come from not being raised right. It’s a shorthand for Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s entire political agenda and a certain, ugly kind of politics Lying to and screwing over working people so that they can steal from our health care and social security and veterans care to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest and bailouts for their crypto billionaire friends for this corruption.
Ocasio-Cortez has been tipped as a future leader of the Democratic Party with a recent CNN poll finding she led her party among voters who said she most represented their values. In recent days, Ocasio-Cortez also offered a stinging rebuke of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) vote to keep the government funded by a GOP-backed spending plan.
Watch the clip above via MSNBC.
