Rep. Chip RoyCharles (Chip) Eugene Roy The GOP congressman demands that Ocasio-Cortez apologize after exchanging on Twitter with Cruz House. Republicans ask for information about threats to keep the National Guard in DC Wyoming County by voting to censor Liz Cheney for Trump’s impeachment vote MORE (R-Texas) said on Tuesday that although he is “sad to hear” about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-CortezOcasio-Cortez says he is a survivor of sexual assault while narrating the Capitol riot. Democrats seek to make Marjorie Taylor Greene the face of GOP Juan Williams: GOP shrinks from QAnon MORE(DN.Y.) experience of sexual assault, he still believes she should issue an apology for comments on which she blamed Sen. Ted Cruz
Rafael (Ted) Edward CruzOcasio-Cortez says she is a survivor of sexual assault while recounting the Capitol riot. Impeachment won’t cure us – we need a commission on democracy and electoral integrity The Seventeenth Amendment and Donald Trump’s censorship MORE (R-Texas) for the Capitol riot on January 6.
Cruz had contacted the congresswoman on Twitter last week, indicating that they may find a rare area of agreement in the investigation of GameStop’s recovery and other actions brought by Reddit on Wall Street. She clearly rejected his offer, indicating that she blamed him and other Republicans for their efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 election and draw a line between them and the violation of the Capitol.
“I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there is common ground, but you almost murdered me three weeks ago, so you can stay out,” tweeted Ocasio-Cortez. “I am happy to work with almost any other GOP that is not trying to kill me. In the meantime, if you want to help, you can resign. “
Later that day, Roy, who previously served as Cruz’s chief of staff, sent a letter for the speaker Nancy Pelosi
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“It came to my attention,” he wrote, that Ocasio-Cortez “accused Senator Ted Cruz, in essence, of attempted murder.”
“If the Ocasio-Cortez representative does not apologize immediately, we will be forced to find alternative ways to condemn this unfortunate statement,” said Roy added in the letter.
On Monday, Ocasio-Cortez spoke on a live stream from Instagram detailing her experience of the insurrection that her fear was compounded by the trauma of being a survivor of sexual assault.
“These are the tactics that abusers use,” she added. “People who are saying, ‘We should move on’, ‘We shouldn’t be responsible’ etc., are saying, ‘Can you just forget about it so we can do it again?’ ”
Roy wrote on a Tuesday in a statement shared with The Hill that he, “he was sad to hear about the trauma that my colleague, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, described in recent days in relation to sexual assault. ”
“Nobody should go through this and I hope she has received justice and peace in this matter,” added Roy.
However, he added: “I will not be diverted from my beliefs about right and wrong – in relation to this or anything else. Your comparison of my defense of colleagues with your circumstances was again inadequate, but I will not participate in discussing your personal experiences as a political issue. “
He went on to say that the Ocasio-Cortez experience “does not change the fact that his claim against Senator Cruz was completely unacceptable for a member of Congress to do against another member for engaging in freedom of speech and debate about what our Constitution says about voters. Nor does it change my position that she should apologize and retract these observations. “
“The members of this body have a duty to work to repair the tattered fabric of our Republic, to stop this exacerbated rhetoric, to stop the attacks of social media and to move forward to really do the work that the American people sent us here to do,” he added. .
Cruz was one of the most vocal advocates of challenging 2020 voters in certain states because of unfounded allegations of widespread electoral fraud. These claims, advanced by ex- President Trump
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