FILE - Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., waits for a quality league astir the Delta variant of COVID-19 and the root of the virus, astatine the Capitol successful Washington, Thursday, July 22, 2021. Gosar is facing disapproval aft helium tweeted a video that included altered animation showing him striking congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword. In a tweet Monday night, Ocasio-Cortez said Gosar shared a phantasy video of him sidesplitting me. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) (J. Scott Applewhite,Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

PHOENIX – Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar was facing disapproval aft helium tweeted a video that included altered animation showing him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.

In a tweet Monday night, Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., referred to Gosar arsenic “a creepy subordinate I enactment with” and said helium “shared a phantasy video of him sidesplitting me.” She added that Gosar would look nary consequences due to the fact that Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy “cheers him connected with excuses.” She besides said that institutions “don’t protect” women of color.

A chap House Democrat, Ted Lieu of California, referred to Gosar’s tweet arsenic “sick behavior” and said successful a tweet of his own: “In immoderate workplace successful America, if a coworker made an anime video sidesplitting different coworker, that idiosyncratic would beryllium fired.”

Gosar, a Republican, posted the video Sunday day with a enactment saying: “Any anime fans retired there?”

The astir 90-second video is an altered mentation of a Japanese anime series, interspersed with shots of borderline patrol officers and migrants astatine the confederate U.S. border. During 1 astir 10-second conception of the video, animated characters whose faces person been replaced with Gosar and chap Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado are seen warring different animated characters.

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In 1 scene, Gosar's quality is seen striking the 1 made to look similar Ocasio-Cortez successful the cervix with a sword.

Twitter aboriginal attached a informing to the tweet saying “it violated the Twitter Rules astir hateful conduct. However, Twitter has determined that it whitethorn beryllium successful the public’s involvement for the Tweet to stay accessible.”

Gosar is known arsenic an ardent state of erstwhile President Donald Trump. He was among the lawmakers whose telephone oregon machine records a House sheet investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection asked societal media and telecommunications companies to sphere arsenic they were perchance progressive with efforts to “challenge, hold oregon interfere” with the certification oregon different effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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