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  • FLASHBACK: Former AOC aide challenging Pelosi wore shirt depicting Nazi collaborator

    FLASHBACK: Former AOC aide challenging Pelosi wore shirt depicting Nazi collaborator

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    A former aide to Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was once pictured wearing a shirt that depicted a Nazi collaborator in an image that resurfaced after the “Squad” staffer announced a congressional campaign against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

    Saikat Chakrabarti managed Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional campaign in 2018, serving as chief of staff to the progressive member before leaving just one year later after publicly criticizing some Democratic lawmakers. 

    After Ocasio-Cortez won her first election, Chakrabarti sported a shirt with the face of Nazi sympathizer Subhas Chandra Bose, an Indian nationalist who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II, during an interview to talk about the new congresswoman’s emerging political career.

    The video, titled “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief of Staff on Acting Fast in Congress,” was shared by NowThis Impact, a progressive organization.

    FORMER AOC CHIEF OF STAFF ANNOUNCES RUN AGAINST PELOSI, CALLS DEMS ‘PARALYZED AND UNPREPARED’ UNDER TRUMP

    Saikat Chakrabarti, left, and Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., center, leave a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C., on July 15, 2019. (Getty Images)

    In a separate photo, Chakrabarti was seen wearing the same shirt with the face of the Nazi collaborator.

    Bose was known for his support of socialist policies in the late 1930s and early 1940s. During the Second World War, Bose struck an alliance with the “Axis Powers” of Germany, Italy and Japan, and personally met with Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Hideki Tojo. 

    Chakrabarti on Wednesday announced that he plans to run for the House seat currently held by Pelosi, who will be 86 years old when she is up for re-election in the 2026 midterms.

    Saikat Chakrabarti

    Saikat Chakrabarti, then-chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Monday, July 15, 2019.   (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)

    “It’s become clear to me that the Democratic Party needs new leadership,” Chakrabarti said in a post on X. “I don’t understand how DC’s Democratic leaders are so paralyzed and unprepared for this moment after living through President Trump’s first term — and after Trump and Elon warned us exactly what they planned to do.”

    ‘RED LIGHT’ DISTRICT REP. AOC CALLED OUT FOR IGNORING CRIME CLEANUP ON HER TURF

    Pelosi filed paperwork to run for a 21st term next cycle, signaling that she intends to seek re-election.

    Nancy Pelosi at the Capitol closeup shot

    Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., a former House speaker, has indicated she will seek re-election in 2026. (Getty Images)

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    While working for Ocasio-Cortez, Chakrabarti tweeted that Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kan., one of the first two Native American women to serve in Congress, enabled a racist system after she voted in favor of a Senate border bill not backed by progressives. 

    Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report.

  • Former AOC chief of staff announces run to unseat Pelosi

    Former AOC chief of staff announces run to unseat Pelosi

    The former chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., announced Wednesday his intention to run against Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., calling the Democratic Party “paralyzed and unprepared” for President Donald Trump’s second term in office. 

    In a lengthy message on X, Saikat Chakrabarti said he decided to run against the former House speaker, who is seeking a 21st term, after “watching Trump and Elon (Musk) freely unleash chaos in their illegal seizure of government.”

    “It’s become clear to me that the Democratic Party needs new leadership,” he wrote. “I don’t understand how DC’s Democratic leaders are so paralyzed and unprepared for this moment after living through President Trump’s first term — and after Trump and Elon warned us exactly what they planned to do.”

    PELOSI DEMURS ON IF ‘EVERYTHING IS OK’ BETWEEN HER AND BIDEN: ‘YOU’D HAVE TO ASK HIM’

    Saikat Chakrabarti, chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., works on a computer in his office in the Cannon House Office Building June 26, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Mary F. Calvert For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

    While Chakrabarti said he respects the Democratic leader, the country has dramatically changed since her early days in Washington. He noted that Pelosi intervened to block Ocasio-Cortez from becoming chair of the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

    “When Nancy Pelosi was first elected to Congress, you could buy a home on a single income. A summer job could pay for college,” he wrote. “Republicans believed in climate change and respected election results. Now, the things that defined the American Dream — being able to afford health care, education, a home, and raise a family — are impossible for most people.”

    He added that the Republican Party is “overtly conspiratorial and anti-democracy.” 

    AOC’S ‘RED LIGHT DISTRICT’ PLAGUED BY CRIME AS DEMOCRAT WHO HELPED HER RISE TO POWER SAYS SHE ‘DISAPPEARED’

    AOC and Nancy Pelosi

    AOC texted that she felt “completely transformed” after Pelosi stepped down as House Speaker, according to an insider. (Getty Images)

    “The Democratic Party needs to stop acting like it’s competing against a normal political party that plays by the rules, and it needs a bold vision for how to raise living standards, quality of life and security for all Americans,” he said. “America is stuck, and Americans want real solutions that are as big as the problems we face.”

    In his campaign, Chakrabarti said he plans to talk about problems that need solving for San Francisco, the U.S. and the Democratic Party. 

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    Chakrabarti, who helped manage Ocasio-Cortez’s upstart 2018 campaign, left his chief of staff position in 2019 after drawing the ire of Democrats when he publicly criticized party moderates during policy spats between progressive members and party leadership.

    That year, he tweeted that Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, one of the first two Native American women to serve in Congress, enabled a racist system after she voted in favor of a Senate border bill not backed by progressives. A month later, Chakrabarti described centrist Democrats who blocked a liberal-backed emergency border bill as the “new Southern Democrats.”

    Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y

    Saikat Chakrabarti and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., leave a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center July 15, 2019.  (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

    They “certainly seem hell bent to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did in the 40s,” he wrote in a now-deleted post.

    Fox News Digital has reached out to Pelosi. 

  • Pelosi discloses sales of Nvidia and Apple shares, purchase of Alphabet and Amazon

    Pelosi discloses sales of Nvidia and Apple shares, purchase of Alphabet and Amazon

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    Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., reported several stock trades on Inauguration Day that were made in December and early January involving several of the world’s largest tech companies, an industry her husband Paul has traded in before. 

    Congressional stock trading disclosures, known as periodic transaction reports, cover trades made by both the member of Congress and a spouse.

    Ian Krager, a spokesperson for the former speaker, told FOX Business, “Speaker Pelosi does not own any stocks, and she has no prior knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions.”

    NANCY PELOSI’S HUSBAND SOLD MORE THAN $500K IN VISA STOCK AHEAD OF DOJ ACTION

    Pelosi’s disclosure showed the purchase of 50 call options for Alphabet, the parent company of Google, along with 50 call options for Amazon, according to her latest periodic transaction report filed with the clerk of the House of Representatives. 

    Both sets of call options have a strike price of $150 and were valued between $250,001 and $500,000. Call options give investors the right to buy shares of a company at a specific price.

    Ticker Security Last Change Change %
    AAPL APPLE INC. 223.83 +1.19 +0.53%
    NVDA NVIDIA CORP. 147.07 +6.24 +4.43%
    GOOGL ALPHABET INC. 198.37 +0.32 +0.16%
    AMZN AMAZON.COM INC. 235.01 +4.30 +1.86%

    The disclosure showed the sale of 10,000 shares of Nvidia along with 31,600 shares of Apple on Dec. 31. After the sale, Paul Pelosi bought 50 more Nvidia call options on Jan. 14 that had a strike price of $80 in a trade that was in the range between $250,000 and $500,000. He also exercised 500 call options for Nvidia on Dec. 20 that had a strike price of $12 and were due to expire that day. 

    That trade was in the range between $500,000 and $1 million.

    Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., reported new stock trades involving notable tech companies. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images / Getty Images)

    The former speaker’s disclosure also noted several other investments that occurred in the last month, including that 140 call options were exercised for 14,000 shares of Palo Alto Networks at a strike price of $100 that were due to expire Dec. 20 in a trade reported as being between $1 million and $5 million.

    Pelosi also disclosed the purchase of 50 call options of Tempus AI with a $20 strike price, as well as 50 call options of Vistra Corp. with a $50 strike price, on Jan. 14. The Vistra purchase was in the $500,000 to $1 million range, while Tempus was between $50,000 and $100,000.

    Ticker Security Last Change Change %
    VST VISTRA CORP 186.85 +1.41 +0.76%
    TEM TEMPUS AI 50.45 +2.81 +5.90%

    BIPARTISAN GROUP OF SENATORS REACHES AGREEMENT TO BAN LAWMAKERS FROM TRADING STOCKS

    Paul and Nancy Pelosi

    Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and husband Paul Pelosi attend the Vanity Fair Oscars Party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California, on March 10, 2024. (Michael Tran/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)

    Investments made by Paul Pelosi have attracted scrutiny amid mounting calls for members of Congress and their immediate family members to be banned from stock trading. 

    Ticker Security Last Change Change %
    V VISA INC. 323.54 -0.07 -0.02%

    Last fall, Paul Pelosi sold over $500,000 in Visa stock ahead of a Justice Department antitrust suit against the credit card giant. Earlier last year, an analysis estimated that he made the couple nearly $4 million in a six-month period off of Nvidia call options he bought in November 2023.

    Lawmakers’ spouses can trade in companies or industries their partner may help regulate, but it’s illegal for members of Congress and their family members to profit from inside information.

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    Members of Congress on both sides of the political aisle have proposed legislation in recent years that would ban lawmakers and their family members from owning stock. Bipartisan bills to that end were developed in the Senate during the last Congress, but neither became law before the end of the 118th Congress, leaving the issue to the current Congress.

    FOX Business’ Breck Dumas contributed to this report.