Two military veterans stormed out of a meeting with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after the 29-year-old lawmaker bashed U.S. foreign policy, according to a new report.
Ocasio-Cortez held a closed-door meeting with community leaders in the Bronx part of her New York district on Wednesday night, according to the New York Post. During the meeting, the freshman Democrat criticized U.S. dealings with Saudi Arabia.
“I just couldn’t hear her BS anymore,” said former Community Board 11 chairman and Army veteran Anthony Vitaliano, 78. “I just got up, got my umbrella in my hand, and walked right out.”
Vitaliano also worked for the New York Police Department for nearly 40 years and led the Bronx’s homicide detectives.
“She knocks the country, she knocks the president. And that’s not what America is about,” said board treasurer and Vietnam War veteran Silvio Mazzella, 74.
Another attendee said he was “revolted” when Ocasio-Cortez called President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “autocrats.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesman Corbin Trent contested the veterans’ accounts.
“The only person that left the meeting while it was underway was someone who had to go pick up their children,” Trent said.
“Everybody that was there knows I walked out,” Vitaliano said, calling Trent’s account “bullshit.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.
