{"id":557106,"date":"2021-06-08T15:06:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T19:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557106"},"modified":"2021-06-08T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T19:07:01","slug":"matt-walsh-on-gofundme-campaign-to-help-aocs-grandmother-sort-of-scandalous-it-was-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matt-walsh-on-gofundme-campaign-to-help-aocs-grandmother-sort-of-scandalous-it-was-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Walsh On GoFundMe Campaign To Help AOC\u2019s Grandmother: \u2018Sort Of Scandalous\u2019 It Was Shut Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmatt-walsh-on-gofundme-campaign-to-help-aocs-grandmother-sort-of-scandalous-it-was-shut-down%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557106&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Daily Wire host Matt Walsh said that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may have lied about her grandmother\u2019s living conditions after \u201csomeone\u201d in Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s family shut down his $100,000 fundraiser to help her elderly relative.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh appeared on \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight\u201d on Monday to discuss a viral GoFundMe campaign he launched after Ocasio-Cortez shared photos of her grandmother\u2019s dilapidated home in Puerto Rico on social media and blamed former President Donald Trump for mishandling the response to Hurricane Maria in 2017. Ocasio-Cortez was mocked and chided for bringing in a six-figure salary while allowing her grandmother to live in such conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for giving me a chance to talk about my philanthropy which has been a big passion of mine since last week,\u201d Walsh joked, adding, \u201cshe claimed that her grandmother has been living in this dilapidated shack, I guess for four years since the hurricane. She\u2019s a wealthy single woman who has two apartments and a Tesla that she just recently bought, apparently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe for whatever reason refused to help her grandmother so we said, \u2018alright, we\u2019ll get together and we\u2019ll raise the money.\u2019 We raised $100,000 in 10 hours. We probably could have raised $1 million if they let the fundraiser continue,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut someone \u2013 \u2018someone,\u2019 big scare quotes around it \u2013 in abuela\u2019s (grandmother\u2019s) family shut down the fundraiser about 10 hours into it and said that she doesn\u2019t want the money. Now this raises a lot of questions like, for example, does this mean that abuela really wasn\u2019t in the dire straits as it was presented to us? Or would AOC prefer for her grandmother to live in that state suffering rather than to take money from us? I think either way it\u2019s sort of scandalous on AOC\u2019s part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walsh said that he would \u201caccept\u201d a Nobel Prize for his efforts to save Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s grandmother from living in poverty if someone were to nominate him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean anything anyway so you might as well give it to me,\u201d he said of the award. Walsh also slammed Ocasio-Cortez for allowing her grandmother to live in a hurricane-torn house for four years and blaming the federal government for inaction while doing little for her grandmother herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it does show that actually you don\u2019t have to wait around for the system to solve every problem. Sometimes free individuals can just get together,\u201d Walsh said. \u201cThis is a problem that we could have solved not just for abuela but they could have taken the money, fixed the ceiling, bought her some furniture she clearly needs, and then they could have taken the rest of the money and helped the neighbors. They could have helped the whole community with these funds, but they preferred not to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GoFundMe for AOC&#039;s &#039;abuela&#039; shutdown after she said she would refuse the money\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R551f-3tpJQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Much of the aid sent to Puerto Rico through the Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to reach those impacted by the Hurricane in 2017, largely because of failures by Puerto Rico\u2019s local government. The government has been plagued with corruption and incompetency. Last year, Puerto Rico\u2019s head of emergency response was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/warehouse-filled-with-hurricane-maria-supplies-discovered-years-later-in-puerto-rico\">fired<\/a> after officials found a warehouse full of supplies that was delivered but never distributed to victims of Hurricane Maria three years earlier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/after-ocasio-cortez-reveals-squalid-conditions-of-her-abuelas-home-matt-walsh-starts-viral-gofundme-to-help\">After Ocasio-Cortez Reveals Squalid Conditions Of Her Abuela\u2019s Home, Matt Walsh Starts Viral GoFundMe To Help<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Wire host Matt Walsh said that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may have lied about her grandmother\u2019s living conditions after \u201csomeone\u201d in Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s family shut down his $100,000 fundraiser to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279640,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Matt Walsh On GoFundMe Campaign To Help AOC\u2019s Grandmother: \u2018Sort Of Scandalous\u2019 It Was Shut Down","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Matt Walsh On GoFundMe Campaign To Help AOC\u2019s Grandmother: \u2018Sort Of Scandalous\u2019 It Was Shut Down","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}