AOC Tears Trump Apart As ‘Authoritarian’ And Warns He Wants To ‘Carve Out The World’
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez He issued a harsh warning about the President Donald TrumpIts apparent ambition to destroy the international rules-based order and allow authoritarians to “shape the world” as long as it takes the Western Hemisphere.
The New York Democrat made her case during a panel discussion on Friday. Munich Security ConferenceIt begins with a call to protect the world’s democracies amid Trump’s controversial foreign and domestic policy actions that define this volatile “new era.”
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“I think what we are looking for is a return to a rules-based order that will eliminate the hypocrisy when so often in the West we divert inappropriate populations to realize these paradoxes.” Ocasio-Cortez said.
He continued with examples: “Whether it’s kidnapping a foreign head of state, threatening our allies to colonize Greenland, or ignoring genocide, hypocrisy is a vice and threatens democracies globally.”
But Ocasio-Cortez made her most remarkable remarks when asked, moderated by New York Times reporter Katrin Bennhold, what policies or institutions (like NATO, the Paris Climate Agreement or the Iran nuclear deal) a Democratic administration would save.
The progressive congressman began by arguing that the United States should first reconsider its commitments to foreign aid through the following organizations. USAIDand renewing America’s political agreements with its various allies. Trump administration gave up.
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“They are trying to pull the United States out of the whole world so that we can turn into an age of authoritarianism, of authoritarians, that can shape a world where Donald Trump can dominate the Western Hemisphere and Latin America,” he continued.
Ocasio-Cortez added that Trump considers the entire Western Hemisphere his “personal sandbox.”
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the Munich Security Conference on Friday. Sven Hoppe/Resim Union/Getty Images
He also argued that powerful leaders like Russia would not care about Trump. Vladimir Putin He began “swinging sabers around Europe” and militarily “bullying” America’s allies there, reiterating that his goal was for “authoritarians to have their own geographic space.”
Trump admitted There’s only one “one thing” limiting your search for land and resources, I tell the New York Times“My own morality. My own mind. That’s the only thing that can stop me.”
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“I don’t need international law,” he continued at the time. “I don’t want to hurt people.”
Ocasio-Cortez wrapped up her defense Friday by returning to the moderator’s key question about what institutions or policies the Democratic administration might want to save. renewed speculation About the potential presidential race in 2028.
“And it is actually the Trans-Pacific Partnership, our global alliances that can be a hard stop against authoritarian power consolidation, especially in the establishment of regional puppet governments,” he told Bennhold.
