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AOC's questions years ago helped spark the investigation into Trump's business. Now, he's been ordered to pay $355 million.

www.businessinsider.com

In 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned Michael Cohen about Donald Trump. Cohen's answers eventually led to Letitia James's fraud lawsuit.

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I love that for both of them.
More please.
Analysis: AOC is being groomed by corrupt DNC insiders and think tanks as the next Obama.
- …what…?
  
  Lots of ‘burn it all to the ground’ users on lemmy I’ve found. They hate democrats so much that they end up being republican in the end. I try and ignore them, but there’s a handful each time a democrat is mentioned.
- Correct, but not how I think you are framing it.
  AOC, one of the 5 not corrupt members of the DNC, but the longer she stays in bed with them, the more fleas she will accumulate.
  She is eligible for this Presidential election. She should go for it.
  
  Eh, mostly not corrupt. She voted to end the rail workers strike
  
  not corrupt
  Are you sure about that? 😅
Possibly her contribution was important, but tbh it's also generally easy to cherry pick records to invent narratives like this.
Ocasio-Cortez again asked Cohen if the former president had ever inflated his assets. "Yes," Cohen answered.
This fraud was already documented at the time by journalists. Do you call this the "beginning", then? Also, Cohen was collaborating with authorities. Would the investigation not happen without that testimony?
Although AOC contributed there, this article is rather shallow as it misses the bigger picture where AOC was not in the center in my opinion.
- I watched this live and you couldn't be more obtuse. NO ONE else in the room was following this line of questioning. Sure reporters could have uncovered all of this eventually but she had the presence of mind to know this was under oath so it could move the prosecution along much faster.
  
  Thanks for sharing your personal opinion.
The NYT broke this story around 2017/2018 I'll try to find the link
- Journalist Craig Unger at least mentioned this in 2018 in his book House of Trump, House of Putin. Likely that book is not the original source on this, so there should be some earlier one.
  
  And nothing happened until AOC did something with Cohen under oath. You guys seem to think those are holding equal weight.
  Let's be clear. A nyt article most of the time doesn't do shit.

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