‘Playing the victim’: Alex Stein says AOC puts ‘personal agenda ahead of American people’

Comedian Alex Stein has slammed Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for “playing the victim” and putting her “personal agenda ahead of the American people”. Ms Ocasio-Cortez was filmed being confronted by pro-Palestine protesters outside a movie theatre for reportedly refusing to label the Israel-Hamas war “genocide”. Cortez shouted that their video would take her comments “completely out of context” before snapping at a protester. “It kind of just shows you, you notice how triggered she gets?,” Mr Stein told Sky News host James Morrow. “This is a serious subject – the Israel-Palestinian conflict – obviously, she’s not going to be able to fix it just herself. “But the fact that she just runs away from her constituents so scared instead of just trying to talk to them – she’s just a hypocrite to the nth degree. “This is typical of AOC’s playbook – she does get confronted, she plays the victim, but we need more people confronting our politicians – especially people like AOC that are arguably the most famous politicians. “She’s one that we definitely need to talk to and try to get a better understanding of how she actually put America first, instead of putting her personal agenda ahead of the American people.”