AOC accuses Trump of ‘setting racist tone’

Published March 12, 2019 4:04am ET



Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., accused President Trump of setting a “racist tone” as an example for her critics.

“I’m gonna be very frank: I think that this president has set a racist tone,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with Vanity Fair published Monday. “I think he has set a tone of such strong misogyny, racism, conspiracy theory-ism.”

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