Trump LIED! Ocasio-Cortez Did Not Call U.S. "Garbage"

Donald Trump continues to attack the four congresswomen (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayana Pressley, Ilhan Omar). He has told repeated lies about all four of them.

I think it typifies his racism, but I also believe he is doing it to try and distract from all the negative things coming out about him -- especially the testimony before Congress by Robert Mueller. The lies and attacks are just Trump's way of dealing with his problems.

One of the biggest lies he's told is that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the United States and its people "garbage". It's a lie that he has now repeated several times. It may work with his base, since they seem willing to believe any lie he tells, but hopefully the rest of America knows better. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has never said that, and never would.

If you're interested, here (from PolitiFact) is what she actually said:

“I'll never forget this one older woman who came to me and said, ‘You know, I always voted Democrat because growing up my dad told me that Democrats are the people that fight for the working man.’ ” 

“And we stopped. And the working man and woman and people is the majority of this country, and so what I think we saw was both parties frankly abdicated their responsibility. 

“No one was fighting for working people who were struggling, and so, as a result, it almost created this opportunity. And you can take all of this anger and direct it to a negative and destructive end that allows a small group of people to benefit a great amount. 

“Or you have to take a really bold stance to bring it the other way and direct it to the possibility of what we can accomplish together. 

“And I think the thing that is really hard for people to sometimes see, is that when we are on this path of a slow erosion and a slow move away from what we've always been, we'll be a hundred miles — you won't even realize that you've drifted a hundred miles. So when someone's talking about our core it's like, ‘Oh, this is radical.’ ” 

“But this isn't radical. This is what we've always been. 

“It's just that now we've strayed so far away from what has really made us powerful and just and good and equitable and productive. And so I think all of these things sound radical compared to where we are, but where we are is not a good thing. And this idea of like 10% better from garbage shouldn't be what we settle for.”