From Fox News: An emotional Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attempted to blame critics – and even President Donald Trump’s own off-the-cuff agility – for the backlash she received for her response to a question at the recent Munich Security Conference on American defense of Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion.
“If you think I don’t understand foreign policy, because of out of hours of discourse about international affairs, I pause to think about one of the most sensitive geopolitical issues that currently exist on earth, I’m afraid the issue is not my understanding, but perhaps the problem is you’ve gotten adjusted to a president that never thinks before he speaks,” a raspy-voiced Ocasio-Cortez said on a late-night Instagram Live video circulating on social media.
The leftist congresswoman’s Munich stumbling on Friday, Feb. 13, started the critical firestorm and has conservatives questioning her fitness for a potential 2028 Democrat presidential primary campaign.
Ocasio-Cortez was asked, “Would and should the US commit troops to defend Taiwan, if China were to…?”
She answered, “Um, you know, I think that, uh, this is such a, a, you know, I, I think that this is a um, this is of course a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy, of the United States, uh, and I think that what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point,” Ocasio-Cortez said, struggling to find the right words on the world stage. “And we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation, and for that question to even arise.”
Vice President JD Vance roasted her for the response.
“I think it’s a person who doesn’t know what she actually thinks, and I’ve seen this way too much in Washington with politicians: Where they’re given lines and, when you ask them to go outside the lines they were given, they completely fall apart,” Vance told Fox News’ “The Story With Martha MacCallum” in an in-studio interview earlier last week.
“That was embarrassing,” he continued. “If I had given that answer, I would say, ‘You know what? Maybe you ought to go read a book about China and Taiwan before I go out on the world stage again.’ I hope that Congresswoman Cortez has the same humility. I’m skeptical.”
Now, Ocasio-Cortez is pleading her case for Americans to believe she knows what she’s talking about.
WATCH:
Read more at Fox News
The Dennis Michael Lynch Podcast archive is available below, with the most recent on top. Never miss an episode. Subscribe to the show by downloading The DML News App or go to Apple Podcasts.
