While Congress was on their Easter break, the normally frequent tweets from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) slowed down to a crawl as she took a break to celebrate the holiday with her family.
Senior White House Advisor Kellyanne Conway used the Twitter silence during this period as fodder to instigate a social media feud with the progressive representative in a reply to a now-deleted tweet that was critical of comments that Conway made on CNN castigating Ocasio-Cortez for loudly condemning the New Zealand mosque shootings but not commenting on the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.
“I see officials who get a lot of airtime and ink, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, congresswoman, who tweets many times about the mosque and never once about the Christians being killed in Sri Lanka,” Conway said during an interview with Jake Tapper this morning about President Trump’s response to the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in 2017 that resulted in the death of Heather Heyer.
Wrong again. You can delete or apologize (holds breath)
I was referring to @AOC silence about the Sri Lanka massacre of Christians (not “Easter Worshippers” as Obama and Hillary oddly said).
Try listening before spewing. https://t.co/jNm7ypRO6f
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) April 28, 2019
The steadfast congresswoman, now back from her holiday sojourn, saw Conway’s reference to her silence on the killings of Christians by Muslim terrorists this morning and felt compelled to defend herself against Conway’s insinuations of ignoring the tragedy for political purposes.
Representative Ocasio-Cortez replied with a lengthy Twitter thread that questioned the White House advisor’s motives for her attack and pointed towards much more horrific offenses perpetrated by the Trump administration that should more properly be held up for scrutiny.
Hello Ms. Conway,
On Easter I was away from tech visiting my grandmother in Puerto Rico, which continues to suffer from the White House’s incompetent disaster response.
Are you trying to imply that I am less Christian? What was the point of you bringing this up on national TV? https://t.co/TIypLf2CaB
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 28, 2019
“Corrupt” is a good one, too.
I’m curious, how do you spin ignoring and neglecting the largest mass death of people on American soil in decades, @KellyannePolls?
After all, the official count of 3,075 people is much bigger than the 64 number your admin clung to for so long.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 28, 2019
You are using this as an excuse to stoke suspicion around my Christianity + faith life, @KellyannePolls.
The Sri Lanka massacre was horrifying. No one should be targeted for their religion.
If you’re so moved, let’s do more to welcome immigrants fleeing religious persecution.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 28, 2019
Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez’s blistering invocation of the Trump administration’s failures in regards to Puerto Rico and her rejection of Conway’s attempts to paint her as unsympathetic to the victims of the Sri Lanka massacre prove that she is not to be underestimated on her familiar turf of social media.
As of the publication of this article, Conway has yet to respond to Ocasio-Cortez’s reply to her attacks. Perhaps she knows better than to take on the Congresswoman in a medium where she has the home field advantage.
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