The refusal of a Democrat to dismiss Trump of a "greater national scandal" than his behavior

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expressed her exasperation towards the Democratic leaders for refusing to prosecute President Trump while a new controversy has shaken her administration.

A two-month truce with House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi was cracked just before midnight on Saturday when the first congressman in New York shot a ball on Twitter to attack her own party.

"At this stage, the most important national scandal is not the president's behavior against the law, it's the refusal of the Democratic Party to reject it," Ocasio-Cortez told his personal account, which has more than 5 million supporters.

Despite the late hour, the Ocasio-Cortez tweet instantly became a flash point on social media, garnering nearly 50,000 "likes" during the first 90 minutes and the thousands of comments encouraging or encouraging, or encouraging him to rethink his position.

Ocasio-Cortez replied to a comment by l & # 39; AtlanticJames Fallows, who said, "[In my opinion]it's a "false equivalence" of its kind. What Trump does objectively remains the biggest threat, the biggest scandal and the biggest problem. Second row: silent acquiescence of the GOP Senate. Then it's time for House to act. "

The congresswoman replied, "It's one thing for a president-in-office to break the law, another to let him in. The integrity of our democracy is not threatened when a president breaks the law. It is threatened when we do nothing. " The silence of the GOP and its refusal to act should not be a surprise. Ours is. "

Ocasio-Cortez's late-night salvo comes two months after his meeting with Pelosi and seems to have gone beyond a quarrel that broke out when the speaker rejected the influence of Ocasio-Cortez and his "squad" of young people renowned liberal students. Congress women including representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley.

The tweets are also following a tumultuous week for Trump due to the emergence of a whistleblower complaint from the US intelligence community. This complaint, which the Trump administration refuses to Congress, would be linked to a July phone call in which Trump lobbied the Ukrainian president for that he was investigating the son of the former son of Joe Biden, Hunter, who had worked in Ukraine while his father was vice president.

Joe Biden called for a new inquiry in the House as three committees led by Democrats in the lower house were already investigating whether his personal lawyer, Trump, Rudy Giuliani, had pressured the Ukrainian government to 39 it limits the chances of the presidential election of former President Biden.

Democrats see similarities in this impasse and in the Russian controversy over the Trump presidency for two and a half years. And calls for dismissal have escalated since former special advocate Robert Mueller completed his two-year investigation into Russia earlier this year. Although Mueller's team did not find any criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, the special council pointed to several cases of possible hindrance to justice that, according to many Democrats, laid the foundation for an indictment investigation.

Although more than half of the Democratic caucus members support an imputation investigation, Pelosi has resisted a formal House vote that would allow the House Judiciary Committee to launch an official imputation investigation. The California Democrat called the dismissal a "division" and said the Americans wanted the House to act cautiously, but it failed to appease an increasingly agitated base.

Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced earlier this month that his panel is conducting a formal investigation. Pelosi stated that she supported Nadler and was "very satisfied" with the work of her committee, but she did not support her request. About two weeks ago, she left the press to answer questions about whether the House was conducting a formal impeachment investigation.