--- title: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Hillary Clinton Mock Jared Kushner description: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Hillary Clinton both have something to say about Jared Kushner's use of WhatsApp for contacting foreign leaders canonical: https://time.com/5556966/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-hillary-kushner/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-22T16:17:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T08:26:01.464Z og:title: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Hillary Mock Jared Kushner og:description: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Hillary Clinton have a hot take for Jared Kushner og:url: https://time.com/5556966/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-hillary-kushner/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc51c97518bb5eba/698945f5e76ad25ab363440d/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Hillary Mock Jared Kushner twitter:description: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Hillary Clinton have a hot take for Jared Kushner twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc51c97518bb5eba/698945f5e76ad25ab363440d/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Hillary Clinton Mocked Jared Kushner on Twitter > Sponsored content. 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The 29-year-old, newly-elected Congresswoman represents a generational shift among the Democrats._  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 22, 2019 4:17 PM UTC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sits down with TIME's Charlotte Alter. The 29-year-old, newly-elected Congresswoman represents a generational shift among the Democrats.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 22, 2019 4:17 PM UTC Democratic Rep. [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez](http://time.com/5555770/) has [developed a reputation](http://time.com/5534842/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-billionaires-michael-scott/) for her sharp, popular commentary on Twitter. This time, former secretary of state and presidential candidate [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/5543634/hillary-clinton-2020-president-campaign/) chimed in to back up one of Ocasio-Cortez’s latest social media rebukes on a subject she’s close to, criticizing President Donald Trump’s son-in-law [Jared Kushner](http://time.com/5556373/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-private-email-whatsapp/) for his use of the text communication app WhatsApp for official work, including contacting foreign leaders. In response to a CNN clip showing Anderson Cooper discussing the potential security breach with Democratic [Rep. Ro Khanna](https://khanna.house.gov/), Ocasio-Cortez had a quick clapback: “But his WhatsApp,” she tweeted alongside the video, referring to Kushner’s use of the app. Clinton’s response: “Tell me about it.” During the heated 2016 presidential campaign, Trump and his supporters were quick to decry Clinton’s use of a [personal email address](http://time.com/4843087/peter-w-smith-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-emails/) for official work, often referring to “her emails” as one of the reasons the former senator was not fit to serve in the presidency. Now, it turns out both Kushner and his wife, Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, could have used their own non-government channels to communicate in an official capacity. For her part, Ocasio-Cortez seemed pretty pleased with Clinton’s Twitter response, giving her a series of exclamation points in return. > [](https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1108904467603357696) > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1108919967150456832) > [](https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1108939169185726464) ## Transcript [00:00] What was your candy of choice? I don't even know. I like [00:03] the Fruit Roll- Ups. Yeah, I like the, like when ice cream [00:07] trucks would come around they would also have Big [00:09] League Chew in there. Yes, I [00:14] love Big League Chew. I've spent the last year covering [00:16] Democrats all over the country and it's clear to me that the [00:18] party is approaching a moment of generational change. [00:22] Nobody in Congress represents that shift better than AOC. [00:23] Let's play a lightning round game. I'm gonna be [00:29] the bad guy, which I'm sure half the room would agree with [00:32] anyway. These are people from all [00:37] over. It's Texas, Indiana, Alabama It says [00:41] don't be a crook. Hi, I'm Charlotte, [00:46] good to see you. We met very briefly the last time you did a [00:50] Time interview. There's always this talk [00:54] about, division within the Democratic Party or like this [00:58] progressive wing In our ideological differences. [01:02] Yeah. But I actually think they're generational differences [01:06] because the America we grew up in is like nothing like the [01:07] America our parents or grandparents grew up in. We [01:17] were born after the Cold War. We were children. Literal [01:20] children during the Clinton administration. So the [01:24] prosperity of the Clinton administration and like the surplus [01:27] and all these other stuff. [ SOUND ] Great, bounced budget [01:31] ->> Yeah, yeah, it's right out there with [ INAUDIBLE ] or [01:35] whatever fruit crash gashers ->> What about like your [01:37] relationships with your friends? I mean Do you feel like you [01:41] can go to a bar? Do you feel like you can go to your [01:44] friends' weddings? Do you feel like you can have brunch [01:46] or pizza or any of the things that 29 year olds do with [01:50] their friends? Like, no. [ LAUGH ] Yeah, that doesn't mean [01:54] I don't do it, because it's really important [01:58] for me to still do it. There are aspects to this job that [02:03] can cause you to drift away from the experiences of [02:06] everyday people. So even though sometimes it's [02:09] uncomfortable with the increased attention and scrutiny for [02:11] me to just like go to a taco joint, [02:16] I still insist on doing it. It's really important for me to keep [02:20] doing that and for me to be around normal people. [02:27] [ INAUDIBLE ] to hysteria and the community forward. One. [02:30] [ APPLAUSE ] Hi everyone good evening. [02:35] We are slowly by surely just making our way through all [02:39] the community boards in the district on both the queens [02:40] side and the block side. And really what we just wanna do [02:42] is extend our hand and to come to you. You know until like- [02:47] Elsie is one of the only working classmate Members of [02:50] Congress. Two years ago she was a bartender. In 2008 [02:54] her family almost lost their home during the financial crisis [02:57] after her father died of lung cancer. That changed [03:00] everything. I didn't know that it was gonna be the last time [03:04] that I talked to my dad, but towards the end of our [03:07] interaction I started to feel like it was I just [03:11] feel something different from him, I there is just this, I [03:16] don't know. Yeah. Just like a certain finality to [03:20] that interaction and so I was like choking back these tears, [03:24] I was trying to kind of hide them and he kind of. Hollered [03:27] out, and I turned around in [03:31] the door frame and he said, hey, [03:37] make me proud. And that was the last thing my dad ever [03:39] said. But the thing that was so nuts was just [03:44] hundreds of people came out. We had this memorial [03:48] service Service and it was packed, it was standing room [03:52] only. All of these people that he had ever touched [03:56] that my family never even knew and it just showed [04:01] how you can have no formal [04:05] power, no title, no position, nothing and [04:09] you can be enormously Powerful in other people's lives. 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