AOC Forced To Backtrack On Her ‘Origin Story’ After Report Exposes Major Lies

“Squad” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) is coming under fire for misstating her supposed hardscrabble background in the Bronx, with the Democrat now claiming she grew up in an area adjacent to the notoriously violent New York borough.

AOC, who rose from humble bartender to congressional celebrity after the 2018 election, backpedaled on her origin story after a new report alleging she went to high school in Yorktown Heights, a suburb 40 miles outside of New York City.

The controversy began when AOC fired back at President Donald Trump, who labeled her “one of the dumbest people in Congress” after she attempted to impeach him for striking Iran.

“Also, I’m a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully,” the progressive lawmaker replied on social media.

Within hours, AOC’s biography came up for debate when New York State Assemblyman Matt Slater posted a photo from her 2004 high school yearbook.

“@AOC if you’re a BX girl then why are you in my Yorktown yearbook?” Slater asked in his post. “Give it up already.”

The ensuing feud has caused AOC to clarify that she grew up “between” the ‘burbs and the Bronx, but that explanation isn’t cutting it for some locals upset with her obfuscation.

Locals in Yorktown are calling out the congresswoman for fundraising off the attacks but failing to state in her latest emails that she grew up in wealthy Westchester County.

“You can tell right out of the gate she isn’t from the Bronx. Listen to her!” said retired FDNY firefighter Billy, 47, who still carries a heavy Bronx accent despite moving to the leafy nearby town of Valhalla.

“Listen to us!” he told the NY Post while golfing with friends in Yorktown one recent morning. “We’ve been out of the Bronx for years but we still sound like idiots! It doesn’t just go away. She doesn’t have that in the way she talks.”

A review of land records by Lohud.com shows that the Ocasio Cortez family had a presence in Yorktown through AOC’s high school graduation. She was listed as a member of her family’s home in the suburb when it went up for sale in 2016, fetching $355,000.

That was just two years before she launched her improbable congressional campaign.

Richard Kennedy, who runs a local supermarket in Yorktown, thinks the 35-year-old lawmaker’s short stay in the Bronx should disqualify her from representing the borough in Congress — let alone alleging that she grew up on its mean streets.

“If you came here when you were 3 years old, you’re from here,” Kennedy bluntly said.

Another called her a “phony.”

“You think she’d be proud of being from Yorktown,” said one woman who refrained from sharing her name. “It’s a great town.”

“I don’t get why you wouldn’t want to say you’re from here,” said Yorktown salon owner Sandra Guarriello.

“We dreamed of living here. It took us a long time and a lot of hard work and now we live here. It’s been our dream to live here.”

In her latest fundraising email, AOC briefly alludes to her hometown suburb while insinuating that her mother cleaned New York apartments as a maid while she studied hard to be the first in her family to attend college.

“I’m proud of how I grew up and talk about it all the time! My mom cleaned houses and I helped. We cleaned tutors’ homes in exchange for SAT prep,” she wrote.

“Growing up between The Bronx and Yorktown deeply shaped my views of inequality and it’s a big reason I believe the things I do today!”