AOC slams Ted Cruz as a liar with blood on his hands for fundraising during the MAGA riot as he tried to overturn Joe Biden's victory - after he claimed he was 'just doing his job'
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upped the Twitter feud with Ted Cruz on Thursday evening by calling him out for pleading for money in a fundraising text sent after protesters descended on the Capitol Wednesday. '@AOC You are a liar,' Cruz tweeted Thursday after she claimed he was responsible for inciting the pro-Trump mob to obstruct Congress certifying the election for Joe Biden. 'Oh - you're accusing me of lying? Isn't this you?' Ocasio-Cortez shot back. 'Your campaign sent out this fundraising message as people were sieging the Capitol. You claimed to be 'leading the fight to reject electors.' 'Clashes started around 1:20pm. This message was sent after the Capitol was breached,' she pointed out. Ocasio-Cortez attached an image of a text message to her tweet with the message the Texas senator's team sent out on Wednesday. 'Ted Cruz here,' the text message to supporters begins. 'I'm leading the fight to reject electors from key