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Florida Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna slammed the Washington Post as “compost” and claimed the publication is “incredibly racist” after it questioned her life story.
Luna, 33, who was the first Mexican-American woman to be elected to Congress from Florida, spent the past 24 hours blasting the Washington Post after it published an article titled: ‘The Making of Anna Paulina Luna’ on Friday night. tomorrow. As of Saturday afternoon, the article was still up, but the Jeff Bezos-owned outlet had issued a correction and clarification.
The article questioned the legitimacy of Luna’s life story, questioning whether her father had actually been in jail and claimed that some friends and family were “shocked” to hear the representative claim that she grew up poor and had embraced his heritage. hispanic
“The fact is that the background to your article was incredibly racist,” he said on Fox News. Jesse Watters Primetime. ‘They tried to undermine my Hispanic heritage.
“It’s horrible how they treat minorities,” he continued. “The Washington Post is compost and they should do better.”
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Florida Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna slammed the Washington Post as “compost” and claimed the publication is “incredibly racist” after it questioned her life story. “The fact is that the background to her article was incredibly racist,” she said.
The Washington Post article noted that Luna had changed her last name from Mayerhofer and claimed that she grew up in “low-income” neighborhoods with a “small” extended family in California while her father was in and out of jail.
The Post, which said it spoke to three of the extended family members, claimed a cousin had told them that Luna was “regularly included in family gatherings.”
Luna has repeatedly said that she “grew up on welfare” and went to “more than six high schools” growing up and has continued to reiterate these statements since the Post article.
“That’s not something the Washington Post wants to tell the truth about,” he said on Fox News. “I think my story is something they don’t want to believe is true.”
A former roommate, Brittany Brooks, who lived with Luna for a short time during her military service when her home was raided, told the Post: “She would really change who she was based on what fit the situation best at that time. moment”. .’
The Washington Post after it published an article titled: ‘The Making of Anna Paulina Luna’ on Friday morning. He questioned the legitimacy of Luna’s life story, questioning whether her father had actually been in jail and claimed that some friends and family were “shocked” to hear the rep claim that she grew up poor and had embraced her heritage. hispanic
The publication has since issued a correction and clarification to the article. She corrected that she had been registered as a Democrat in Washington.
He also clarified that reporters only interviewed one roommate about the alleged break-in that occurred during Luna’s time in the military after the congresswoman criticized them for omitting to interview another roommate about his personality entirely because “they didn’t It fit his narrative.”
She criticized one of the reporters, who apologized for the mistake on Twitter.
However, Luna claimed that the Post also spoke with another former roommate, who goes by Syenro on Twitter, and did not use that interview in his post. She also included screenshots of alleged text messages between the reporter and the roommate that show the Post asking how the congresswoman “introduced herself.”
‘Introduce yourself in what way? Keep in mind that we were roommates. She introduced herself the same way she does now,” her former roommate responded according to the screenshots.
‘They left my comments completely out of this story. Although I’m not surprised. It didn’t fit the narrative,” the roommate wrote on Twitter.
The politician also posted purported screenshots of her other roommate’s conversation with the Post, which they omitted from the article.
He also claimed that the Post “talked to my mom and didn’t report much of what she was putting out.”
One of the things that Luna claimed is that her mother confirmed to the Washington Post that she was a Messianic Jew and that she has many photos of her father in synagogue.
“They don’t want people like me to have credibility,” he said on Fox. “So what they do is attack reputation.”
The major news outlet also claimed that he had previously registered as a Democrat in Washington state, but has since issued a correction to the top of the story, which read: “An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Anna Paulina Luna was registered as a Democrat in Washington State in 2017 based on an erroneous voter registration database. Washington State only requires voters to declare their party affiliation when casting their ballot in a presidential primary election.’
He also shared a photo of his father wearing a prison uniform as the Post questioned whether he had actually been incarcerated.
One of the journalists, Jacqueline Alemany, apologized for the error on Twitter, writing: “We incorrectly state that Anna Paulina Luna was registered as a Democrat in Washington State in 2017 based on an erroneous voter registration database.” Wash only requires voters to declare their party affiliation when they cast their ballot in a POTUS primary. Sorry for the mistake!
The other reporter, Alice Crites, retweeted Alemany’s post.
Luna’s date tweeted it out on Twitter, writing, “You’re about to take a lot back.” @JaxAlemany wants to share with the country why she chose to leave out my roommate @syenro’s testimony or why she quoted someone who hates gays.
The Post also issued a clarification at the end of the article, that Brookes was the only one interviewed about a robbery when the couple lived together.
‘This story has been amended to clarify that Luna’s Missouri roommate was the only person interviewed by police after a search of his apartment; she was not the only person mentioned in the police report,’ the Washington Post clarified.