Rep. Chip RoyCharles (Chip) Eugene RoyGOP Congressman Demands Ocasio-Cortez to Apologize After Twitter Exchange With Cruz House Republicans Demanding Briefing About Threats The D.C. Wyoming County National Guard Votes To Disapprove Liz Cheney For Trump Impeachment Votes MORE (R-Texas) said Tuesday that while he is “sad to learn” about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Cruz had reached out to Congress via Twitter last week to indicate that they might find a rare area of agreement in the investigation of GameStop’s Reddit-powered Wall Street rally and other stocks. She emphatically declined his offer, indicating that she blamed him and other Republicans for their attempts to undermine the results of the 2020 election and draw a line from them to the break in the Capitol.
“I’m happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there are common ground, but you almost had me killed three weeks ago so you can hold it out,” tweeted Ocasio-Cortez. Happy to work with almost any other GOP who isn’t trying to kill me. If you want to help out in the meantime, you can quit. “
Later that day, Roy, who previously served as Cruz’s chief of staff, received sent a letter to speaker Nancy Pelosi
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“It has come to my attention,” he wrote, that Ocasio-Cortez “essentially charged Senator Ted Cruz with attempted murder.”
“If Representative Ocasio-Cortez does not immediately apologize, we will be forced to find alternative means to condemn this regrettable statement,” Roy added in the letter.
Monday Ocasio-Cortez spoke in a live stream on Instagram about her experience of the rebellion that the fear she endured was exacerbated by the trauma of a survivor of sexual assault.
“These are the tactics that abusers use,” she added. “The people who say, ‘We have to move on,’ ‘We shouldn’t be accountable,’ etc., say, ‘Can you just forget this so we can do it again?’ ”
Roy wrote on Tuesday in a statement he shared with The Hill that he, “was sad to learn about the trauma my colleague, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, described in recent days with regard to sexual assault. ”
“No one should go through that, and I hope she has received justice and experienced peace,” Roy added.
However, he added, ‘I will not be distracted from my views of right and wrong – regarding this or anything else. Her comparison of my colleagues’ defense with her circumstances was again inappropriate, but I am not going to participate in discussing her personal experiences as a political issue. “
He went on to say that Ocasio-Cortez’s experience “ does not change the fact that her allegation against Senator Cruz was completely unacceptable for a congressman to charge another member for conducting freedom of speech and debate over what our constitution says about voters. . Nor does it change my position that she should apologize for those comments and withdraw them. “
“ Members of this body have a duty to work to restore the torn fabric of our Republic, end this heightened rhetoric, end sniping on social media, and move on to actually work. to do what the American people sent us here, ” he added.
Cruz was one of the most outspoken advocates of challenging certain states’ voters in 2020 over unsubstantiated allegations of widespread voter fraud. These allegations, put forward by former President Trump
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