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Queens reps targets of prez’s disrespect
It’s no secret that the current
president of the United States has
complete disdain and disrespect
for those who disagree with him. In
recent weeks, he’s hurled remarks
on Twitter to sitting members of
Congress, duly elected by the people of
their respective districts, with thinly
veiled language that came across as
bigoted and off ensive.
One of these targets happens to
be Congresswoman Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, the freshman
upstart representing northeast
Queens and the Bronx.
Ocasio-Cortez is an American,
born in the Bronx and of Puerto
Rican descent. Last month, the
president of the United States
falsely claimed that she and three
other congresswomen of color
were not Americans, and ought
to “go back” to where they came
from.
It was a blatantly bigoted and
disrespectful remark, and it
was shamefully puppeted by the
president’s closest supporters.
Regardless of what you may think
of AOC’s politics, the president’s
EDITORIAL
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney with the late Detective Luis Alvarez,
an advocate for the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund extension, during
a visit earlier this year. Maloney was the head sponsor of the extension
legislation, but when President Donald Trump signed it into law on July 29,
she was excluded from the bill-signing ceremony.
remarks were flat-out wrong.
Despite a formal Congressional
rebuke (split along party lines, as
usual), the president didn’t learn
his lesson.
This past weekend, he attacked
another Congress member of color,
Elijah Cummings of Maryland, and
the city of Baltimore which he
represents. Again, the president
used hateful, demeaning language
to trash a sitting lawmaker and the
people who elected him.
If that wasn’t bad enough, on
July 29, the president went out of
his way to disrespect yet another
lawmaker, Carolyn Maloney of
Manhattan and Queens. (By the
way, that’s the second Queens
lawmaker whom the president, a
native of this borough, slighted in
a month.)
Maloney says that she was not
invited by the president to attend
a signing ceremony at the Rose
Garden for the extension of the
9/11 Victims Compensation Fund
— a bill for which she served as
head author and sponsor. The
White House claims that it sent
invitations to the ceremony to all
members of Congress.
Somebody’s lying about this, but
who?
Why would Maloney, who
played such an instrumental role
in having the 9/11 fund extension
passed in Congress, falsely claim
to not have been invited to the
signing ceremony? It would have
been one thing for Maloney not to
attend for whatever reason; New
York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
didn’t participate in the ceremony,
citing a prior commitment.
Surely, if Maloney wasn’t able
to make it, she would have said
so, just as Gillibrand did. The
congresswoman had nothing
to gain by lying about the noninvite.
The Constitution created three
equal branches of government. For
the president to be so disrespectful
to lawmakers is a slander on
the Congress, and an insult to
the people who elected them to
Congress.
The president of the United
States serves the people of this
country, not just those who voted
for him. He’s supposed to work
with the legislative branch, not
just those who continue to support
him. Donald Trump continues
to fail to live up to these high
standards, and his disrespect for
our lawmakers is intolerable.
All Americans should condemn
the president for his rhetoric
and behavior — and demand that
he demonstrate to everyone the
civility and respect he demands
for himself.
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