Progressive zealot New York City Dem Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may think she can fire off any dim thought she has on social media, but the law says otherwise. See, you can’t just defame someone with false allegations. Just ask ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, who thought he’d label Donald Trump a “rapist” on live national television and there would be no consequences, because, you know, George was famous.
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The incident cost his network $15 million, because in the real world, a jury did not find that the now-president was guilty of that abhorrent crime. In other words, Stephanopoulos was culpable of yet another incident of “fake news” emanating from our nation’s corrupt mainstream press.
But AOC might not be keeping up with current events, because she just made the same charge on social media and, according to many observers, opened herself up to potential serious legal consequences:
Rep. Alexandria