AOC fires back after Rep. Steve King posts video of himself drinking water from sink at detention center

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-fires-back-at-steve-king-after-he-posts-video-of-himself-drinking-from-detention-center-toilet-so-anti-immigrant

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., fired back at Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, on Wednesday night, hours after he tweeted a video of himself drinking water from a sink attached to a toilet at a migrant detention center, calling the congresswoman “#FakeNews” for claiming migrants were drinking from the toilet.

“There is a genre of videos where GOP House members - who clearly didn’t read sworn testimony that detention sinks were broken- filming themselves drinking out of toilet sinks,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response to King.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

✔@AOC

There is a genre of videos where GOP House members - who clearly didn’t read sworn testimony that detention sinks were broken- filming themselves drinking out of toilet sinks.

They’re so anti-immigrant they risk pink eye to show off that they didn’t do the reading #CloseTheCamps https://twitter.com/twittermoments/status/1169408278662656001 …

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Congressman Steve King has shared a video of himself drinking from a toilet/water fountain at a border facility while addressing @AOC's previous criticism of the conditions there. https://twitter.com/i/events/1169401962854404097 …

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“They’re so anti-immigrant they risk pink eye to show off that they didn’t do the reading #CloseTheCamps,” she added.

Several hours earlier, King posted that he visited the same cell where Ocasio-Cortez had reported migrants were drinking from the toilet.

“I took a drink out of there,” he tweeted, referring to the sink above the toilet. “And actually pretty good!”

Steve King

✔@SteveKingIA

Hello Maura: Thank you for covering my town hall, attended by 103 people, in Eagle Grove today. I hope you will include this video in NBC’s coverage. No way was @AOC objectively honest in her #FakeNews spin about the border. Click bait for Snowflakes! https://twitter.com/maurabarrettnbc/status/1169329055663054848 …

Maura Barrett

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At today’s town hall in Eagle Grove, @SteveKingIA told a story about how he drank from a toilet at a migrant facility on the border when he last visited: “actually pretty good”

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"No way was @AOC objectively honest in her #FakeNews spin about the border,” he wrote of the congresswoman’s assertion about subpar conditions. “Click bait for Snowflakes!"

King suggested the initial claim came from a "language barrier" that resulted in "misinformation" about facilities.

Ocasio-Cortez said that migrants at the detention centers were being forced to drink "out of toilets" hours out she toured one of the locations in July.

Border Patrol Chief Brian Hastings refuted her allegations, stating that migrants are given fresh drinking water.