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@AOC claims that at the Green New Deal FAQ was “an early draft” accidentally posted. Someone sent me the information from the PDF: It was created by AOC’s Chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti at 10:09. 
@AOC Did Chakrabarti accidentally create a PDF of a draft and then accidentally post it? Did AOC accidentally keep up the FAQ for hours and hours while critics were dissecting it and forget to mention it was a draft?
Some people have emailed to accuse me of using a doctored and fake FAQ in my piece. It was not. All the quotes are in there. thefederalist.com/2019/02/07/ten…
Anyone who buys their story is either a complete hack or blind.
Also, a number of major Democratic Party president hopefuls endorsed the Green New Deal when the public only had access to this supposed draft plan rather than the edited one. They supported the aims in the original draft.
And WHY in holy hell would you put a line about supporting people "unwilling to work" in a draft copy anyway? Why would you put any of that in a draft copy if you didn't believe it?
And they sent the same "draft" memo to NPR? And NPR wrote a piece around the FAQ, and still they didn't complain?
AOC could have said: "listen, we were too ambitious. we jumped the gun. we have to work towards these things. i'm learning." instead, she concocted a ridiculous story -- and some journalists (not all, etc) decided to cover for her.
If a bunch of Senators supported a Trump plan with a bunch of crazy goals in the FAQ,-- which were public and widely shared--those Senators would be called on to answer for their support. And rightly so.
