GoFundMe for AOC's 'abuela' shutdown after she said she would refuse the money

we said a minute ago this is the greatest story of the week and it's only monday we may have undersold it it's only what june 7th we can say this is probably the best story of the month of june 2021 here's how it begins a couple days ago sandy cortez of westchester complained online that her grandmother in puerto rico lives in poverty because of big orange she put up a picture of her grandmother's house this is her home she wrote trump blocked relief money for puerto rico well matt walsh is often on this show felt a twinge of empathy so he set up a fundraiser a gofundme for sandy cortez's grandmother but neither one of them wanted the money matt walsh is the compassionate host of the matt walsh show and joins us tonight with an update to this poignant tale of aid refused matt walsh first of all thank you for doing what sandy cortez herself didn't do which is trying to help her her abuela her grandmother what happened here yeah and thank you for giving me a chance to talk about my philanthropy which has been a big passion of mine since last week but uh listen she she claimed that uh that her mother's been living in her grandmother rather has been living in this in this dilapidated shack i guess for four years since the hurricane and she's a wealthy single woman who has two apartments and a tesla that she just recently bought apparently she for whatever reason refused to help her own grandmother and so we said all right well you know what we'll get together and we'll raise the money we raised a hundred thousand dollars in ten hours okay we could we probably could have raised a million dollars if they let the fundraiser continue but someone someone uh big scare quotes around it in abuela's family shut down the fundraiser about 10 hours into it and said that she doesn't want the money now this raises a lot of questions like for example does this mean that abuela really wasn't in the dire straits as it was presented to us or would would aoc prefer for her grandmother to live in that state suffering rather than to take money from us i think either way it's um it's it's sort of scandalous i think on aoc's part well it's a little bit weird that it was left to you to help ocasio-cortez's grandmother i mean i i think of you as a kind of i don't know caped crusader for good a white knight in this world but i mean shouldn't aoc be a little ashamed of this yeah i mean i and and obviously look i've already put my i've put my hat in the ring if anyone wants to nominate me for a nobel peace prize i will accept it it doesn't mean anything anyway so you might as well give it to me but it is it is interesting that she would that she would leave her grandmother like that and you know the thing is she said well i'm focused on the systemic problems and the government was supposed to solve this problem well it does show that actually you don't have to wait around for the system to solve every problem sometimes free individuals can just get together and but this is a problem we could have solved not just for abuela but they could have taken the money fixed the the ceiling bought her some furniture she clearly needs and then they could have taken the rest of the money and and and helped the neighbors they could have helped the whole community with these funds yeah but uh they preferred not to do that i'm starting to think maybe helping people isn't the point for a casual quartet i'm so glad you were able to talk about your philanthropy your passion for helping mount walsh the great mount walsh thank you thank you see that that's a good story we didn't oversell it hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Id: R551f-3tpJQ

Length: 3min 34sec (214 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 08 2021