Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Bans The Press From Her Town Hall Event

On Thursday, hundreds of publications launched a coordinated attack against President Trump. There were dozens upon dozens of op-eds, criticizing Trump for HATING the “free press,” even though that’s not the case at all. As Greg Gutfeld said, “Trump accuses them of groupthink, and they respond with groupthink.”

Trump, of course, knew this was going on and totally tweaked the press ahead of his Cabinet meeting yesterday.

TRUMP to reporters in the Cabinet Room: “If you’d like, you can stay. If you’d like, you can leave.. freedom of the press.”

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) August 16, 2018

So let’s play a game. Let’s pretend to be libs. Wanna know who HAAAAAAAATES the press and the FREEDOM of the press? Socialist darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez! She banned them from her town hall event! *dramatic gasp*

According to the Democratic nominee in the 14th Congressional District, she and the dozens of area residents who attended the event “talked about race, immigration, healthcare, disability rights and housing.”

But unless you were in the room on Sunday, you won’t know what specific community problems were mentioned or how Ocasio-Cortez planned to address them once she is sworn in.

That’s because her campaign banned members of the media from attending the event, which was otherwise open to the public.

According to her campaign manager, Vigie Ramos Rios, they banned the press because Ocasio-Cortez was previously “‘mobbed’ by reporters,” and that was inconvenient for her.

According to Ramos Rios and campaign spokesman Corbin Trent, that unwanted attention led to a press ban both for last Wednesday’s listening tour stop in the Bronx and Sunday’s in Corona.

Wait wait wait. It gets better.

“We wanted to help create a space where community members felt comfortable and open to express themselves without the distraction of cameras and press. These were the first set of events where the press has been excluded,” Trent stated. “This is an outlier and will not be the norm. We’re still adjusting our logistics to fit Alexandria’s national profile.”

Are they implying that the press makes community members feel…unsafe and uncomfortable? Weird. Where’s Jim Acosta? Surely, he’d feel differently, right? Does this mean Ocasio-Cortez is an Actual Dictator now? Surely, MSM won’t stand for this. SURELY.

HA– just kidding. They don’t care. Big shocker there.

h/t Queens Chronicle