WAR OF WORDS
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez jokes ‘I’m taller than Marjorie Taylor Greene’ after rep calls her ‘the little communist’
REP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joked today that she's "taller" than Marjorie Taylor Greene after the Georgian referred to her as “the little communist from New York City."
Greene, a Republican rep, made the remark at Donald Trump's rally in Ohio on Saturday night.
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“First of all, I’m taller than her,” the New York congressional rep at her southern nemesis.
Her comeback followed Greene’s shots while she was warming up a Trump rally crowd in Wellington, Ohio.
Greene told the crowd at the Lorain County Fairgrounds that the lawmaker, whom she referred to as “the little Communist from New York City” to a chorus of boos that soon diverged into a familiar chant usually reserved for former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The crowd could be heard yelling in unison: “Lock her up! Lock her up!”
“Lock her up, too,” she agreed. “That’s a good idea.”
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Then Greene continued her verbal insult.
“She’s not an American,” Greene said. “She doesn’t embrace our American ways.”
The two firebrand lawmakers have been trading barbs recently in public, with based on her stance on weapons sales to .
In May, the QAnon conspiracy-pusher tweeted: "AOC you’re responsible for [because] of your hate-Israel stance against Israel’s right to defend itself from terrorists Hamas, calling Israel an apartheid state, & supporting terrorist groups.”
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Then AOC returned fire earlier this month suggested Covid must be man-made.
tweeted: “Tell me you’ve never read the Bible without telling me you’ve never read the Bible.”
The comment had come after Greene questioned Covid-19 as naturally born:
"I don't believe in that type of so-called science,” she told Steve Bannon.
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"Why is there any need to create a virus that could spread rapidly through a population, make people sick and kill them? That’s a bioweapon.
"So we need to be very clear about what was the intent of Covid-19 and these viruses that they experiment with like some sort of Dr Frankenstein experiments."
Green's latest gripe against AOC first earned notoriety when footage emerged showing her shouting "stop being a baby" through Ocasio-Cortez's back in 2019.
"Stop being a baby and stop locking your door and come out and face the American citizens that you serve," Greene said, according to the footage, which was posted to .
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And on May 12, AOC was accosted by Greene outside the House chambers.
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Greene asked her why she supported "Antifa" and the movement.
“You don't care about the American people. Why do you support terrorists and antifa?"
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