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   Commie Daily to All   
   'That's not what America is about': Vete   
   03 Jun 19 04:29:04   
   
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   From: commies@cnn.com   
      
   Two military veterans stormed out of a meeting with Rep.   
   Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after the 29-year-old lawmaker bashed   
   U.S. foreign policy, according to a new report.   
      
   Ocasio-Cortez held a closed-door meeting with community leaders   
   in the Bronx part of her New York district on Wednesday night,   
   according to the New York Post. During the meeting, the freshman   
   Democrat criticized U.S. dealings with Saudi Arabia.   
      
   "I just couldn’t hear her BS anymore," said former Community   
   Board 11 chairman and Army veteran Anthony Vitaliano, 78. "I   
   just got up, got my umbrella in my hand, and walked right out."   
      
   Vitaliano also worked for the New York Police Department for   
   nearly 40 years and led the Bronx's homicide detectives.   
      
   "She knocks the country, she knocks the president. And that's   
   not what America is about," said board treasurer and Vietnam War   
   veteran Silvio Mazzella, 74.   
      
   Another attendee said he was “revolted” when Ocasio-Cortez   
   called President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin   
   Netanyahu "autocrats."   
      
   Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesman Corbin Trent contested the veterans’   
   accounts.   
      
   "The only person that left the meeting while it was underway was   
   someone who had to go pick up their children," Trent said.   
      
   "Everybody that was there knows I walked out," Vitaliano said,   
   calling Trent’s account "bullshit."   
      
   Ocasio-Cortez's office did not immediately respond to a request   
   for comment from the Washington Examiner.   
      
   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/thats-not-what-america-   
   is-about-veterans-walk-out-on-meeting-with-ocasio-cortez   
      
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