AOC gets it wrong in tweet about Manafort 'solitary confinement'

[DonViejo]

The president's former campaign chairman is expected to be transferred temporarily for an upcoming court appearance in New York.

June 5, 2019, 11:33 AM EDT / Updated June 5, 2019, 11:41 AM EDT
By Allan Smith

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted Wednesday in opposition to Paul Manafort potentially being held in "solitary confinement" — but NBC News is reporting that is not the case and that if he is transferred he would be given his own cell, which is for his safety, not punishment like solitary.

Link to tweet

The New York Times story that Ocasio-Cortez cited, which raised the possibility Manafort could be sent to Rikers Island, had no mention of solitary confinement, only isolation, and noted that high-profile inmates are sometimes placed into "protective custody" for their own safety from the general prison population.

Manafort's impending transfer from a minimum-security federal prison in Pennsylvania to New York City is because of state mortgage fraud charges the Manhattan district attorney filed against him earlier this year to better ensure that Trump does not pardon his former campaign chairman, who is serving a seven-and-a-half-year federal prison sentence, of his earlier conviction.

Last year, Manafort was convicted on federal bank fraud, tax and conspiracy charges in two related cases.

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[SpankMe]

2. AOC didn't get it wrong. Read the NYT Tweet again

It clearly says 'solitary confinement'. That's what AOC was referring to.

The NBCNews article says the NYT story "had no mention of solitary confinement". The Times article does, indeed, go out of its way to clarify that it's not solitary confinement.

But, the NYT Tweet does mention it, and that's what AOC is referring to.

This is nit-picky bullshit.

[NewJeffCT]

3. She said he is being sent to solitary confinement

not that he's being sent to Riker's Island and may be isolated for his own protection and possibly into solitary confinement.

[Tiggeroshii]

5. Solitary confinement is torture. He is being considered to solitary.

That is not okay for anybody.

[NewJeffCT]

7. she said he is going to solitary confinement

not that he's being considered for it

[Tiggeroshii]

8. She has amended those comments since the tweet.

She clearly misunderstood the article/ tweet.

[Act_of_Reparation]

4. The NYT tweet used the phrase "solitary confinement"

She reacted to language of tweet without reading, or having a having a colored impression of, the complete article.

Huge fucking deal, rite? Big news. Earth shattering, really. Definitely worthy of a headline or two.

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. You'd think the Times could write a less misleading tweet.

I mean, they employ professional journalists, editors, and researchers, right?

It’s almost like they do it on purpose. Constantly.

Must be my imagination.

[BannonsLiver]

9. It's really sweet she's so worried about him.

Maybe they can be pen pals.