AOC hits back at Republican claims she lied about Capitol assault: ‘It’s because they know they are implicated’
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Via: tessylo • 3 years ago • 29 commentsBy: Graeme Massie, The Independent
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AOC hits back at Republican claims she lied about Capitol assault: ‘It’s because they know they are implicated’
AOC hits back at claims she lied about Capitol assault ordeal
(Win McNamee/Getty Images))Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has hit back at claims she lied about her experience during the pro-Trump Capitol riots.
The New York congresswoman took to Twitter to blast “implicated” Republicans for suggesting that she had exaggerated what she went through during the attack.
Critics have said that the congresswoman was in her office in the nearby Cannon House Building and not in the US Capitol Building when it was stormed.
GOP congresswoman Nancy Mace has said that her office is two doors down from Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s and that “insurrectionists never stormed our hallway.”
But Ms Ocasio-Cortez branded the efforts by Republicans to discredit her as “very damning and revealing.”
“To survivors of any trauma who worry about being believed, or that their situation wasn’t ‘bad’ enough or ‘too’ bad, or fear being branded or deemed ‘manipulative’ for telling the truth: I see you,” she tweeted.
“Community is here for you. You are safe with me, and with all of us. You are loved!”
And she said that the efforts by Republicans were the “latest manipulative take on the right.”
“They are manipulating the fact that most people don’t know the layout the Capitol complex," she wrote.
“We were all on the Capitol complex - the attack wasn’t just on the dome.
"The bombs Trump supporters planted surrounded our offices too.
"People were trying to rush and infiltrate our office buildings - that’s why we had to get evacuated in the first place.”
The lawmaker also said that evidence showed the rioters had been intent on trying to physically harm politicians.
“It is also very damning and revealing that the GOP is now digging both heels in a discrediting campaign," she tweeted.
“It’s because they know they are implicated, so they’re pivoting to (again) the classic abuse playbook of ‘it’s not as bad as they say.’
“It was that bad. It’s actually worse.”
Earlier in the week Ms Ocasio-Cortez revealed that she was a victim of sexual assault, as she put in context the trauma she says she suffered in the wake of the Capitol riot.
It is the first time that the lawmaker has talked publicly about being a survivor of sexaul assault.
Ms Ocasio-Cortez said on an Instagram Live stream that those people telling her to “move on” from the 6 January violence were using “the same tactics" of abusers.
“The reason I say this and the reason I'm getting emotional in this moment is because these folks who tell us to move on, that it's not a big deal, that we should forget what's happened, or even telling us to apologise,” she said.
“These are the same tactics of abusers. And, um, I'm a survivor of sexual assault.”
The congresswoman did not go into detail about her sexual assault.
“And I haven't told many people that in my life. But when we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other,” she added.
"And so, whether you had a negligent or a neglectful parent, and - or whether you had someone who was verbally abusive to you, whether you are a survivor of abuse, whether you experience any sort of trauma in your life, small to large - these episodes can compound on one another."
There was an outpouring of support for Mr Ocasio-Cortez following her revelation.
Sara Benincasa, a writer, said: “And enormous respect to AOC for choosing to disclose that she was sexually assaulted when she was younger, and to discuss how new danger to one’s safety can awaken and compound old traumatic memories.”
“AOC's admission of being an abuse survivor is especially poignant, given the horror the she clearly experienced on 1/6. It's one of the most devastating moments of her IG (Instagram).," tweeted Steve Seel of Minnesota public radio.
"To which I can only respond, the fact that THIS is the environment our lawmakers now live under, and especially the Squad, is an absolute disgrace for what purports to be a civilised society,”
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I believe Ms. Ocasio-Cortez over the former occupant of the White House's supporters.
AOC is a lying bitch
From Snopes...........
Ocasio-Cortez wasn't in the main Capitol building where the House and Senate Chambers are located.
When the attack on the Capitol began, Ocasio-Cortez was in her congressional office , which is located in a network of office buildings immediately surrounding the Capitol , and her office building was one of the two buildings that were evacuated.
And I see NOTHING that says anyone, other than the officer looking for her, permeated the building while trying to clear it..
But the officer looked meanly at her, or something, so that means Ted Cruz tried to kill her.
he bombs Trump supporters planted surrounded our offices too.
How does she know this? No one was arrested and the bombs were planted by DNC and RNC offices. Not her building.
How do you know this?
What an odd comment . . . but what else is new . . . .
Just because YOU don't see it, doesn't mean diddly.
Again, I take the word of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez over the word of any of the former occupant of the White House's supporters.
"People were trying to rush and infiltrate our office buildings - that’s why we had to get evacuated in the first place.”
So if it was so damned scary, how did she get here.......
From here.........
Your comment makes no sense
It does if you read Ms. Porter's account of how she was a mom and consoled Ms. Ocasio-Cortez in her office. AOC said she was sitting in her office when it "started" and ended up in Ms. Porter's office.
Deflection!
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LOL! What a desperate pathetic loser!
This has nothing to do with your AOC seed. Perhaps it would have been better served as a stand alone article/seed.
Of course the one above it doesn't either but I digress.
and taunt and troll because that's all you have.
It was just a suggestion...........geez.
Congresswoman Mace was two doors down..........
Only "encounter" she had was with the cop trying to evacuate the building.
That right there should tell you that there was no imminent danger. I think her past "encounters" has left a huge scar on her psyche.............or something of that nature.
she couldn't tell if it was bad or good.
And people voted for this genius!
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‘She’s lost it, she doesn’t deal in reality’: GOP congresswoman doubles down on claims over AOC Capitol ordeal
After feuding with Ms Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter, Ms Mace told Fox News : "She lost it today, she doesn't deal in reality ... I think it's important that we take members to task when they're not being honest with the American people. This division is hurting our country.
"I'm not going to discount the trauma ... but at no time were there rioters at our doors banging to get in," Ms Mace, who has her office two doors down from Ms Ocasio-Cortez in the Cannon office building, told Fox News who put up part of a Newsweek article on-screen as she spoke. The article said that someone entered Ms Ocasio-Cortez's office, but didn't show the part of the story saying that it was a police officer.
Ms Mace told South Carolina paper The State that she feared Trump supporters might attack her and that she barricaded herself in her office and spent the night there, not wanting to return to her hotel.
She then blasted Ms Ocasio-Cortez for her comments, despite saying she herself also felt threatened, telling Fox News, "I felt like I was a sitting duck, I felt like my life was in danger," in the very same interview.
Ms Ocasio-Cortez tweeted : "Wild that Nancy Mace is discrediting herself less than one month in office with such dishonest attacks. She went on record saying she barricaded in fear. Nancy Mace, who else’s experiences will you minimize? Capitol Police in Longworth? Custodial workers, who cleaned up shards of glass?
"All I can think of with folks like her dishonestly claiming that survivors are exaggerating are the stories of veterans and survivors in my community who deny themselves care they need and deserve because they internalize voices like hers saying what they went through 'wasn’t bad enough'.
"This is where the true damage of what Nancy Mace is doing comes in. How many survivors are watching her? Who now, seeing her, won’t get care or will feel further shame or silence? Who won’t speak up because they know there are voices in leadership ready to minimize their experiences?"
Ms Ocasio-Cortez said during an Instagram Live broadcast on Monday that she "thought everything was over," as she hid in the bathroom of her office in the Cannon office building steps away from the Capitol as Trump supporters were about to breach it. A man banged on the door yelling “Where is she? Where is she?” It turned out to be a police officer who wanted to move her to a secure location, but Ms Ocasio-Cortez said the situation "didn't feel right because he was looking at me with a tremendous amount of anger and hostility".
Ms Ocasio-Cortez said on 12 January that “I had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die". She said she didn't feel safe going to a secure location with Republican lawmakers “because there were QAnon and white-supremacist sympathizers and, frankly, white-supremacist members of Congress in that extraction point who I know and who I have felt would disclose my location and would create opportunities to allow me to be hurt, kidnapped, et cetera.”
That other batshitcrazy QAnon bitch Boebert was telling the former occupant of the White House's mob where folks like Pelosi and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez were during their insurrection.