AOC on Skipping Trump Inauguration: ‘I Don’t Rejoice Rapists’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) will completely now not be attending Donald Trump’s 2d presidential inauguration on Monday, and he or she has no downside explaining her causes. 

“A lot of these reporters are like ‘Congresswoman, are you going to the inauguration? Congresswoman, are you going to the inauguration? Are you going to the inauguration?’ Let me make myself transparent: I don’t have a good time rapists. Ao no, I’m now not going to the inauguration room,” Ocasio-Cortez stated in an Instagram put up on Sunday night time. 

Trump has lengthy been the topic of sexual attack allegations, maximum particularly from creator E. Jean Carroll. In 2023, the incoming president used to be discovered liable for the sexual abuse and defamation towards Carroll, who accused him of sexually abusing her in a division retailer dressing room within the Nineties. 

Trump used to be now not discovered responsible for rape, even if Pass judgement on Lewis Kaplan expounded at the factor in a submitting responding to a request from Trump’s legal professional in search of a brand new trial. “The discovering that Ms. Carroll did not end up that she used to be ‘raped’ inside the that means of the New York Penal Legislation does now not imply that she did not end up that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many of us repeatedly perceive the phrase ‘rape,’” Kaplan wrote.

The congresswoman spent Inauguration Eve posting a number of movies criticizing the incoming president forward of his swearing-in. Ocasio-Cortez additionally criticized TikTok — which used to be briefly unavailable in the US forward of a ban that went into impact Sunday — for publicly thanking Trump because the platform’s meant savior. 

“Initially, Donald Trump isn’t president at the moment. He’s a personal citizen. He does now not have get entry to to presidential powers,” Ocasio-Cortez stated in a single put up, noting that TikTok is “signaling that they have got agreed to privately collaborate with Trump and the Trump management.” 

“For all of the ones considerations that individuals had been pronouncing that TikTok goes for use as a propaganda software by way of the Chinese language, perceive they’re the use of it as a propaganda software for the proper,” she added. 

On Sunday morning, Trump wrote on Reality Social that in an instant upon taking over place of work he would “factor an govt order on Monday to increase the time period prior to the regulation’s prohibitions take impact, in order that we will make a deal to offer protection to our nationwide safety. The order may even ascertain that there shall be no legal responsibility for any corporate that helped stay TikTok from going darkish prior to my order.” 

“I would really like the US to have a 50% possession place in a three way partnership. By means of doing this, we save TikTok, stay it in just right palms and make allowance it to mention up. With out U.S. approval, there is not any Tik Tok. With our approval, it’s value loads of billions of bucks – perhaps trillions,” he added. 

Trump has vowed to enforce a slew of primary coverage adjustments at the first day of his management — together with plans to authorize mass deportations and pardon Jan. 6 rioters. 

To Ocasio-Cortez, TikTok’s ass kissing against the incoming management is an indication of a darker dynamic inside of Trump’s govt. “We’re at the eve of an authoritarian management,” she stated. “That is what twenty first century fascism is beginning to seem like.”