Rep. Chip RoyCharles (Chip), Congressman for Eugene RoyGOP, apologizes to Ocasio-Cortez after a Twitter exchange with Republicans at the House of Commons asking for information about threats from the National Guard in Wyoming, DC . (R-Texas) said Tuesday that while it is “saddened to learn” about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Cruz had contacted the congresswoman on Twitter last week, indicating that they could find an infrequent area of agreement when investigating the concentration of Game Street and other Reddit-fueled Wall Street actions. He turned down his offer, stating that he blamed him and other Republicans for his efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 election and drawing them a line toward the Capitol gap.
“I’m happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there are points in common, but I was almost assassinated 3 weeks ago so you can pick this one,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Happy to work with just about any other GOP that doesn’t try to kill me. In the meantime, if you want to help, you can give up.”
Later that day, Roy, who previously served as Cruz’s chief of staff, sent a letter a Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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“It caught my attention,” he wrote, that Ocasio-Cortez “accused Senator Ted Cruz, in essence, of attempted murder.”
“If Representative Ocasio-Cortez does not apologize immediately, we will be forced to find alternative means to condemn this unfortunate statement,” Roy said. added to the menu.
Monday, Ocasio-Cortez spoke on a live Instagram broadcast detailing his experience of the insurrection that the fear he suffered was aggravated by the trauma of being a survivor of a sexual assault.
“These are the tactics that abusers do,” he added. “People who say,‘ We need to move on, ’‘ we shouldn’t have responsibilities, ’etc., say,‘ Can we just forget about this so we can do it again? “”
Roy wrote on Tuesday in a statement shared with The Hill that he, “I was saddened to learn of the trauma my colleague, representing Ocasio-Cortez, described in recent days about sexual assault. ”
“No one should have to go through it and I hope he has received justice and experienced peace in the matter,” Roy added.
However, he added: “I will not allow myself to be influenced by my beliefs about good and evil, regarding this or anything else. His comparison of my defense of peers with their circumstances was again inadequate, but I will not take part in the debate on his personal experiences as a political issue. “
He went on to say that the Ocasio-Cortez experience “does not change the fact that his complaint against Senator Cruz was completely unacceptable to a member of Congress against another member for participating in freedom of expression and debate. what our Constitution says about voters. Nor does it change my position that I should apologize and retract these remarks. “
“The members of this body have a duty to work to correct the tangled fabric of our Republic, stop this intensified rhetoric, stop making puzzles on social media and move forward to really do the work that the American people sent us here “. .
Cruz had been one of the most vocal supporters of challenging voters in certain states by 2020 for unfounded allegations of widespread electoral fraud. These accusations, advanced by old President Trump
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