Posted on 06/05/2021 11:19:48 AM PDT by conservative98
AOC blamed Trump for not sending relief to repair her abuela's Puerto Rico home after Hurricane Maria
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Conservative commentator Matt Walsh revealed on Saturday that the "family" of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's grandmother will not be accepting the money he raised to repair her home after the New York Democrat blamed former President Donald Trump for blocking aid that was supposed to be sent to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria.
Walsh took to Twitter and shared an email he received from the GoFundMe Trust & Safety Team, who informed him that they had been in communications with the "beneficiary's family," who made it clear that "they will not be accepting the funds raised."
"When a beneficiary doesn't want to accept the funds that have been raised on their behalf, it is standard practice to turn off donations, then refund all donors," GoFundMe told Walsh.
"UPDATE: ‘someone’ in AOC’s abuela’s family told GoFundMe that she won’t take the money, even though AOC previously claimed that her grandma was in dire straits (and it was Trump’s fault)," Walsh tweeted Saturday morning. "@AOC still hasn’t acknowledged this effort or thanked us."
Walsh continued: "Tragically this charitable effort has been sabotaged by forces outside of our control. Still I’m grateful for the outpouring of support for abuela, even if AOC isn’t. But questions remain: Why didn’t AOC help her own abuela? Why was our help turned down? We are left to speculate. In the end, our campaign raised 100 thousand dollars and could have solved a problem in ten hours that AOC couldn’t solve in four years. We can all be proud of that. As for abuela, all we can do now is pray."
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Tunnels to towers could use it.
What a hypocrite. Hope he uses it against her.
The recipient was unable to speak for herself?
Pitiful political posturing by AOC. If she REALLY cared, she’d cut the crap out and do what’s right for her family. But her family is a pawn. Shameful.
Matt’s team should reach out to abuela personally, see if abuela refuses it herself, then update on the outcome
Typical PRs.
What a horrible woman.
AOC’s childish rant about her grandma living in squalor was like lebron james flailing around on the floor for attention- Fake as all get out- AOC= Massive Drama Queen= Mentally unstable it seems
I’m not surprised. To a progressive s scoring political points is always going to be more important than helping a family member....
Nice.....
These people are the most shallow, selfish, arrogant and nasty people on the planet. And those are just a small snippet of all the negative adjectives that can be used to describe them.
On the other hand, Walsh’s money would have actually went to help the lady. Have to wonder if she really needs it and where the money would go if AOC is controlling it. Wonder if Project Veritas or Conservative Treehouse has folks in PR to confirm that she’s living in squalor.
And of course, AOC forgets to tell folks how the government leaders were caught with their hands in the cookie jar and also withholding supplies that were sent down there, under President Trump’s authorization.
AOC is such an effin phony.
Give it to her neighbor
Abuela’s family doesn’t want the money.
What about poor, old Abuela?
Has anybody asked her?
Wonder first if she exists.
It was a scam. AOC was allegedly scamming people with this story and pics. Abulea does not not live in that home. Allegedly.
During the election AOC threw money(Chinese Money?) everywhere
There’s more to this story, I suspect. I think AOC really is a despicable person and it’ll probably come out that her family didn’t want to be used as pawns by her for her own political gain.
I wonder if the first name of the family member that rejected it was Alexandria
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