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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
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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 remarks
were fl at-out wrong.
Despite a formal Congressional rebuke
(split along party lines, as usual), the president
Th is 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
people who elected him.
If that wasn’t bad enough, on July 29,
the president went out of his way to disrespect
Maloney of Manhattan and Queens. (By
the way, that’s the second Queens lawmaker
THE QUEENS
didn’t learn his lesson.
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to trash a sitting lawmaker and the
yet another lawmaker, Carolyn
whom the president, a native of
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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. Th e 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. Th e congresswoman had nothing to
gain by lying about the non-invite.
Th e 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.
Th e 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.
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (right) with the late Detective Luis Alvarez, a staunch advocate of
the extension of the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. Maloney helped write the bill that Congress
passed, but was apparently excluded from the July 29 White House ceremony where President
Trump signed it into law.
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