The New York rep's first big in Congress? Exposing Trump's fraud so Attorney Tish James could investigate him
  • cybersandwich@lemmy.world
    61·
    1 year ago

    This is a good article but this:

    So there’s this unspoken assumption that progressives don’t much care about corruption and accountability.

    Is an absolutely asinine take. It’s like they made this part up so they could talk about it for another paragraph. No one assumed progressives didn’t care about corrupt. No one. That’s just dumb.

    • machines_for_more@lemmy.ca
      4·
      1 year ago

      I had the same reaction but to give the benefit of the doubt it feels like maybe they meant comparatively to policy issues progressives seem less concerned with individual corruptions as opposed to the overall corruption of the system.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
    53·
    1 year ago

    The core of the article is this exchange between AOC and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen at his hearing before the oversight committee, which started off the fraud investigation:

    Ocasio-Cortez: To your knowledge, did the president ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company?

    Cohen: Yes.

    Ocasio-Cortez: Who else knows that the president did this?

    Cohen: Allen Weisselberg, Ron Lieberman and Matthew Calamari.

    Ocasio-Cortez: And where would the committee find more information on this? Do you think we need to review his financial statements and his tax returns in order to compare them?

    Cohen: Yes, and you would find it at the Trump Org.

    Definitely give the whole thing a read, though.