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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on April 01, 2019, 01:41:05 pm
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'Epic fail': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is slammed for claiming the GOP changed the Constitution to prevent FDR being re-elected - when the 22nd Amendment was drafted two years after he died
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed Constitution of the United States was altered to make sure Roosevelt did not get re-elected
FDR was elected president four times and died in April 1945, less than three months into his fourth term
But the Constitution was not amended to prevent FDR from winning re-election
The 22nd Amendment which sets a two-term limit for presidents was only approved by Congress in 1947 two years after FDR's death
By Dailymail.com Reporter
Published: 01:06 EDT, 1 April 2019 | Updated: 09:30 EDT, 1 April 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has incorrectly asserted that Republicans in Congress amended the Constitution to kick President Franklin Delano Roosevelt out of office.
'They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected,' Ocasio-Cortez said Friday during a night hall event with MSNBC with Chris Hayes.
Ocasio-Cortez was referring to the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution which passed in 1947.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6871781/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-claims-Republicans-amended-Constitution-prevent-FDR-elected.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6871781/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-claims-Republicans-amended-Constitution-prevent-FDR-elected.html)
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I wonder how many likes she got on Twitter for this. I don't think she cares when she is caught in a lie or stupidity it's important to get the misinformation out to the idiots who follow her.
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Actually she might have a point. No one wanted a dead man in the highest office.
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Who's she gonna blame when she discovers the U.S. doesn't have "57 states"?