Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faced bipartisan and Catholic criticism after gaffes on Taiwan and Venezuela at the Munich Security Conference on foreign policy
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 2: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks at a town hall gathering on May 2, 2025 in New York City. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been traveling across the United States with Sen.
Bernie Sanders on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour. Her presence in Berlin over the weekend was supposed to be an opportunity for the Congresswoman to make her presence known on the world stage — to reveal her foreign policy prowess. But between claiming that Venezuela was located below the equator — when it's actually located in the Northern Hemisphere — and struggling to give an articulate answer to whether the United States should come to Taiwan’s defense if China were to invade, Republicans and some Democrats mocked her for gaffes. “It was a beauty pageant to show that she had some chops about international issues, and she showed a complete lack of chops about international issues,” New York Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf told the Hill.GOP strategist Matt Whitlock concurred with Sheinkopf, calling the NewYork lawmakers’ response to United States’ potential involvement in Taiwan a “world salad.” Ocasio-Cortez was asked “Would and should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?" "This is, of course, a, a very long-standing, policy of the United States, and I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point, and we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise," Ocasio-Cortez said. Her response prompted OutKick founder Clay Travis to compare her answer to a viral answer given by a contestant in the Miss Teen USA 2007 competition.Ocasio-Cortez also bashed the Trump administration for capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. “Maduro canceled elections. He was an anti-democratic leader,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “That doesn’t mean that we can kidnap a head of state and engage in acts of war just because the nation is below the equator.” Conservative pundit Nick Sortor called the congresswoman a “fool” for saying that we can’t capture leaders like Maduro in Venezuela ‘just because the nation is south of the equator’ NONE of Venezuela is south of the equator.” And Catholic Bishop Robert Barron was also displeased with Ocasio-Cortez’s conduct this weekend. He didn’t like how Ocasio-Cortez painted class struggle as the defining global issue saying she was speaking Marxist ideology."As a religious leader, this is concerning me quite a bit. Take a look, everybody, attend to the language, in a way they’re telling us who they are and what they’re for, and I think that should be very concerning to everybody," he concluded.The Utah cheerleading community mourns the passing of Addi Smith, who has been confirmed by her coach as the young girl killed in Las Vegas while attending a chMore than a thousand Utahns woke up without power across the state as strong winds and stormy weather moved in.Around 5:30 a.m., Rocky Mountain Power's outageThree storms will move through Utah over the next week. Some of these storms will finally bring some winter weather to the state. This will include some snow acUtah Republican Party Chairman Robert Axson said the party has collected “way more” than 200,000 signatures to pursue a repeal of Proposition 4.The Utah GOP neeA grieving community came together Monday night to honor the life of Addi Smith, a young athlete whose impact stretched across Utah’s tight-knit cheer world. Sh
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