Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) stated in a Sunday publish on TikTok that she is skipping President-elect Trump’s inauguration.
“All these journalists are like, ‘Congresswoman, are you going to the inauguration? Congresswoman, are you going to the inauguration? Are you going to the inauguration?” Ocasio-Cortez stated in her TikTok video.
“Let me make myself clear,” she added. “I don’t celebrate rapists. So no, I’m not going to the inauguration tomorrow.”
It’s unclear what Ocasio-Cortez, some of the high-profile Home Democrats and somebody talked about as a future presidential candidate, is particularly referring to along with her public feedback.
It could possibly be a rererence to a jury discovering from Could 2023 that, within the Nineties, the president-elect sexually abused author E. Jean Carroll. The jury, nevertheless, didn’t discover Trump chargeable for rape underneath New York regulation.
The Hill has reached out to the Trump transition workforce for touch upon Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks.
A couple of different prime Democrats, together with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), are additionally skipping the inauguration.
However plenty of Democrats have proven up or performed an element within the proceedings.
Each President Biden and Vice President Harris arrived Monday for the president-elect’s swearing-in, alongside different figures together with former President Obama, former President George W. Bush and former President Clinton.
Biden and former first girl Jill Biden greeted Trump and former first girl Melania Trump on the White Home. Harris traveled from the White Home to the Capitol for the inauguration with Vice President J.D. Vance.
Trump is ready to vow a “new era of national success” in his inaugural deal with, in keeping with The Wall Road Journal.
“I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change is sweeping the country,” part of the inaugural deal with, which the Journal first obtained, reads.
