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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was hit with an embarrassing fact-check after posting an image to social media that she falsely claimed was for an anti-Trump rally in Puerto Rico.

AOC is still fanning the fake outrage over a comic’s bombed joke about the “floating island of garbage” at the former president’s big Madison Square Garden rally and shared the picture of the huge crowd of 50,000 at a colonial elections festival in the U.S. territory, proclaiming that the rally was for the “anti-Trump, anti-corruption Alianza movement.”

“Eyes on Puerto Rico,” she wrote next to a Puerto Rican flag emoji. “Tonight Puerto Ricans amassed the second largest political rally this ENTIRE cycle – behind only Harris’ 75k-person Ellipse speech. Over 50,000 Boricuas rallying for the anti-Trump, anti-corruption Alianza movement & @juandalmauPR. Political earthquake.”

The “Squad” leader was referring to Democrat nominee Kamala Harris’ choreographed primetime address from the site where Trump held his rally on January 6, 2021, which drew a massive crowd for the televised spectacle which unfortunately didn’t get the attendant media attention after Joe Biden insulted half the electorate as human “garbage” shortly before the rally.

But as is nearly always with case with modern Democrats, she was lying and was called out by X users – including Elon Musk – for blatantly misrepresenting the “anti-Trump” rally which had nothing to do with politics in the United States.

The X owner shared a screenshot of a community note calling out the New York City diva’s latest big lie.

“The depicted rally is the Festival de la Esperanza, hosted by the anti-colonial parties of Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC) and Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (PIP) ahead of the next colonial elections,” the reader fact-check read. “It had nothing to do with any of the US’s main parties.”

AOC was thoroughly roasted for spreading disinformation.

In another post, Ocasio-Cortez tried to clarify herself.

“I did not mention Kamala and stated this is about anti-corruption Alianza,” the progressive lawmaker wrote. “To build a coalition, it is relevant to note that PNP’s Jenniffer Gonzalez ran Latinos for Trump & campaigns on scare tactics about Dalmau cutting [Social] Security when she’s empowered cuts via membership w/GOP.”

The community note has since been inexplicably removed, but AOC’s false claim remains up.

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