Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defiantly defended congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s charge that Trump family friend Lynne Patton, an African-American, was used as a racist “prop” at Michael Cohen’s congressional hearing. “Total bravery from @RashidaTlaib as she reminds the nation that tokenism *is* racism,” Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted Thursday. During Michael Cohen’s hearing Wednesday, Republican Sen. Mark Meadows of North Carolina presented Patton as a friend of the Trump family to address accusations by Cohen that President Trump was a racist. She also emphasized that she was “pretty direct” and would have called Meadows a racist if she really felt he was. She also addressed Patton, who denied she was being used as “a prop,” saying she meant “no disrespect to her at all.”

Source: Fox News March 01, 2019 18:11 UTC