Peltola spins tall tales, plays the victim card for cash

After the conviction of Donald Trump in New York City, Rep. Mary Peltola was asked a simple question: What did she think about it?

She turned on her heels, left her Democrat colleague and said “gotta go.” She went back into the safety of her offices in Washington, D.C. She just wouldn’t respond to any question about the May 30 conviction.

Now, she says she is a victim, approached and “heckled by random men/political trackers, like the one below who followed me last week.”

Here’s the full context of the actual exchange in early June with the Townhall conservative news site, which she falsely claimed was last week:

In her letter to potential donors, she used a screen shot from the video from nearly three months ago, right after the conviction.

It was a simple question, and if it had been Congressman Don Young strolling outside the Capitol, where reporters are everywhere, he would have told the reporter what he actually thought.

But Peltola fibbed about the incident, because that fit her victimhood narrative.

Last week, Congress was not even in session, and all of her Democrat allies were in Chicago, while Peltola stayed hidden in Alaska, trying to downplay her allegiance to the Democrats. She didn’t attend the Democratic National Convention.

“Then, every single thing I say is spun and taken out of context by groups like the NRCC, in hopes of weakening my support in Alaska,” Peltola said in her letter that asked for money for her and the Alaska Democrat Party.

In reality, it was Peltola who took the video exchange out of context, not telling her supporters that it was a legitimate question, one that any political person would be asked by a reporter worth his or her salt, and a question every member of Congress was asked by reporters. Reporters covering Peltola in Washington have given her a pass repeatedly.

In other venues, Peltola has said she simply doesn’t want to answer anything that would be controversial.

“I refuse to play the gross games and run the smear campaigns that my opponents and the special interests are playing. But I still need to fight back. So please [Friend,] will you split $25 between the Alaska Democratic Party and me before midnight so I can fend off these constant attacks and win in November?” her fundraising letter asked.