AOC doubles down on concentration camp claims, accuses ICE director of covering it up

Retweeting an interview in which Morgan told Hill.tv’s Saagar Enjeti that her comments were “flat-out wrong,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote sarcastically, “Ah yes, because history knows that people who run concentration camp systems almost always acknowledge to the public what they’re doing.”

Twenty minutes earlier, Ocasio-Cortez also hit at Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., for using the word “exterminate” to describe the systematic murder of Holocaust victims by the Nazi regime. She sarcastically accused Cheney of “defending concentration camps.”

Earlier on Tuesday, the official Twitter account of the Auschwitz Memorial weighed in on a thread Ocasio-Cortez started, writing, “The history of Auschwitz is far more complicated than this as it combined two functions: a concentration camp and from March 1942 an extermination center. See our online lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_1/”