Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rips Steve King over toilet water-drinking stunt
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) drew widespread ire on Wednesday after he tweeted a video of himself drinking from a fountain attached to a toilet in a bid to show conditions inside migrant detention centers on the U.S.-Mexico border aren’t that bad.
Hello Maura: Thank you for covering my town hall, attended by 103 people, in Eagle Grove today. I hope you will include this video in NBC’s coverage. No way was @AOC objectively honest in her #FakeNews spin about the border. Click bait for Snowflakes! https://t.co/2mWRoxv1uWpic.twitter.com/B0kD3N5Vmj
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) September 4, 2019
King took a swipe at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) with the post.
He claimed there was “no way” she was “objectively honest” when swearing under oath in July that some detainees told her during a visit to one facility that they’d had to drink out of the toilet bowl because the sink was broken. King, who has a long history of making racist and white supremacist comments, claimed the video showed him drinking from the very same sink.
Ocasio-Cortez fired back:
There is a genre of videos where GOP House members - who clearly didn’t read sworn testimony that detention sinks were broken- filming themselves drinking out of toilet sinks.
They’re so anti-immigrant they risk pink eye to show off that they didn’t do the reading #CloseTheCampshttps://t.co/uYLxQqxSej— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 5, 2019
Other Twitter users also chided King over the footage, which he posted after describing the experience at a town hall event in Eagle Grove. “I smacked my lips,” he told the audience, reported NBC News’ Maura Barrett.
AOC made Steve King so mad he made a video of himself drinking toilet water. All that remains for the rest of us is to sit at her feet and learn https://t.co/qMfSanrEki
— Midsammar💭 (@samthielman) September 4, 2019
Again with drinking from the toilet/water fountains. If liberals said we shouldn’t feed refugees dog food, people like Steve King would eat it and proclaim it downright tasty just to own the libs. https://t.co/X5gR7CsF6F
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 5, 2019
Again with drinking from the toilet/water fountains. If liberals said we shouldn’t feed refugees dog food, people like Steve King would eat it and proclaim it downright tasty just to own the libs. https://t.co/X5gR7CsF6F
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 5, 2019
Steve King drinking from a toilet fountain is the most 2019 thing ever... https://t.co/Cp6GUMZGCE
— Nick Ryan (@NicholasTRyan) September 4, 2019
This story is nuts, but one of the takeaways here is Steve King implicitly admitting that @AOC was right when she said detained migrants were forced to drink out of toilets https://t.co/Clk7fpH4UV
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) September 4, 2019
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
