Trump calls Ocasio-Cortez 'Evita' in new book American Carnage

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Donald Trump has compared Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Eva Perón, saying that though he first saw the New York congresswoman “ranting and raving like a lunatic on a street corner” and thinks “she knows nothing”, she has “a certain talent”.

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I see a young woman ranting and raving like a lunatic on a street corner, and I said: ‘That’s interesting, go back'

She’s got talent. Now, that’s the good news. The bad news: she doesn’t know anything

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