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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (5026)	2/19/2019 8:29:10 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13779

Ocasio-Cortez says Trump's border barrier is 'like the Berlin Wall' as she blasts president for 'moral abomination' and complains that EVERYONE in DC 'is like, a spy! The 29-year-old New York Democratic congresswoman compared Trump's border wall to the Berlin Wall on Friday and called it 'a moral abomination' The Berlin Wall kept East Germans from fleeing the communist Soviet bloc to the democratic WestPresident Trump has framed his border wall expansion as a mechanism to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and narcotics from MexicoOcasio-Cortez also marveled at her newfound fame, saying it's bizarre to see Washingtonians furtively texting that they spotted her at a coffe shop Livestream footage is peppered with the word 'like' By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 15:09 EST, 18 February 2019 \| UPDATED: 22:17 EST, 18 February 2019 e-mail 8kshares 1.3k View comments Freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasion-Cortez compared President Donald Trump's long-promised border wall to the Berlin Wall during a livestream for her supporters on Friday, complaining about the level of public scrutiny her celebrity has generated. 'No matter how you feel about the wall, I think it’s a moral abomination,' the 29-year-old New York Democrat said. 'I think it’s like the Berlin Wall.' The Berlin Wall stood from 1961 to 1989 as a Soviet-manded barrier between East and West Berlin, and came to symbolize the Cold War 'Iron Curtain' that separated communist Eastern European countries from the democratic West. Its purpose was to keep people in East Berlin, the city's communist sector, from fleeing to West Berlin. Freshman New York Democratic congresswoman alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday compared Preisdent Donald Trump's proposed border wall expansion to the Berlin Wall and called it 'a moral abomination' East German military guards looked on in 1989 as the Berlin Wall came down after 28 years of separating the communist Soviet bloc from the democratic West