A former assistant to the Democrat representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., was photographed once with a shirt that represented a Nazi collaborator in an image that resurfaced after the staff member of “The team” announced A Congress campaign against the former speaker of the Nancy Pelosi Chamber, D-Calif.
Saikat Chakrabarti managed the Ocasio-Cortez Congress Congress campaign in 2018, as a chief of staff to the progressive member before leaving a year later after having publicly criticized certain Democratic legislators.
After Ocasio-Cortez won his first election, Chakrabarti sported a shirt with the face of the Nazi sympathizer Subhas Chandra Bose, an Indian nationalist who collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War, During an interview To talk about the emerging political career of the new deputy.
The video, entitled “The chief of staff of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on acting quickly at the Congress”, was shared by Now This Impact, a progressive organization.
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Saikat Chakrabarti, on the left, and representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., center, leave a press conference at Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, DC, July 15, 2019. (Getty Images)
In a separate photo, Chakrabarti was seen bearing the same shirt with the face of the Nazi collaborator.
Bose was known for his support for socialist policies in the late 1930s and early 1940s. During the Second World War, Bose struck an alliance with the “powers of the axis” of Germany, of the Italy and Japan, and personally met Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Hideki Tojo.
Chakrabarti announced on Wednesday that he planned to come to the headquarters of the house currently held by Pelosi, who will be 86 years old when she is re-elected half of 2026.
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Saikat Chakrabarti, then chief of the staff of the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.y., attended a press conference at the Capitol Visitor Center on Monday, July 15, 2019. (Photo by Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)
“It has become clear for me that the Democratic Party needs a new leadership,” said Chakrabarti in an article on X. “I do not understand how DC Democrats leaders are so paralyzed and not prepared for this moment after Having lived the first term of President Trump – and after Trump and Elon warned us exactly what they were planning to do.
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Pelosi filed documents to operate for a cycle of the 21st term, indicating that she intended to request a re -election.
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Representative Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Former speaker of the Chamber, said that she would request a re-election in 2026. (Getty Images)
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While working for Ocasio-Cortez, Chakrabarti tweeted that representative Sharice Davids, D-Kan., One of the first two Amerindian women to serve in Congress, allowed a racist system after having voted in favor of a project of Senate border law not supported by progressive.
Louis Casiano of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.