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AOC hits back at Republicans claiming she was never in the Capitol

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&nbsp;Tuesday, Sep 13th 2022| 12kAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez has claimed she feared the Capitol cop who was sent to evacuate her from her office during the January 6 riot because he looked at her 'with hostility' amid accusations she 'exaggerated' her experience because she was never actually in the building that was stormed, and after accusing Sen. Ted Cruz of trying to have her 'murdered'.&nbsp;&nbsp;On January 6, Dem. Rep. AOC was in her office in the Cannon Office Building - which was evacuated but not breached - when rioters stormed the Capitol Building 0.3 miles away.&nbsp;In an Instagram Live video on Monday night, she tearfully described fearing for her life as she hid behind the bathroom door in her office, unaware if it had been breached and unaware that even the Capitol Building had been breached.&nbsp;She had been pondering what to order for lunch, she said, when 'all of a sudden' she heard 'loud bangs' and 'booms' with 'no voices'.&nbsp;Terrified, she ran into the bathroom in the back of her office to hide behind the door. Then, she&nbsp;But even after being told he was a cop, AOC says she was suspicious of him because&nbsp;he had 'On January 13, she said&nbsp;she 'thought she was going to die' and 'many of us narrowly escaped death'.&nbsp;Now, she is being accused of dramatizing her experience because she was never in the Capitol Building, nor did she encounter any insurrectionists.&nbsp; Westchester vs The Bronx&nbsp;AOC has long campaigned on the fact that she is a girl 'from the Bronx', who grew up 'in the Bronx'.&nbsp;But property records show her father bought a property in&nbsp;Yorktown Heights, Westchester, in the early 90s, around.&nbsp;On her website biography, it says: 'The state of Bronx public schools in the late '80s and early '90s sent her parents on a search for a solution.&nbsp;&nbsp;She ended up attending public school 40 minutes north in Yorktown, and much of her life was defined by the 40-minute commute between school and her family in the Bronx.'Cauliflower is racist&nbsp;&nbsp;In 2019, she said growing cauliflower in community gardens is 'taking a colonial approach to environmentalism.'&nbsp;'A core component of the Green New Deal is having all of these projects make sense in a cultural context, and it's an area that we get the most pushback on because people say, "Why do you need to do that? That's too hard."&nbsp;'But when you really think about it, when someone says that it's "too hard" to do a green space that grows Yucca instead of, I don't know, cauliflower or something - what you're doing is you're taking a colonial approach to environmentalism.She served cauliflower tacos at her in a Mexican restaurant in Union Square.&nbsp;Mexican border camps are 'concentration camps''The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are,' she said.&nbsp;She was slammed by Holocaust survivors.&nbsp;'She should be removed from Congress. She’s spreading anti-Semitism, hatred and stupidity. The people on the border aren’t forced to be there — they go there on their own will. If someone doesn’t know the difference, either they’re playing stupid or they just don’t care,' Ed Mosberg, 93, told Among those who spoke out on Thursday was Republican Rep. Nancy Mace who said: 'I'm two doors down from AOC&nbsp;and no insurrectionists stormed our hallway'.&nbsp;AOC hit back, calling her 'disgusting' and pointing out that she too feared for her life.&nbsp;Mace replied: 'I have not once discounted your fear. We were ALL terrified that day. I’m stating the fact that insurrectionists were never in our hallway... because they weren’t. I deal in facts.&nbsp;'Unlike you, apparently.'&nbsp;Others compared her to Jussie Smollett, the Empire&nbsp;&nbsp;Carlson, on his Fox News show, said: 'The only subject she really cares about – herself.&nbsp;'There she is again.&nbsp;Defender of the common man, yammering on about the only subject she really cares about - herself.'Wallowing around in Lake Me like it's interesting to anybody but her. Narcissism on parade.'The perfect symbol of a culture dying from self-involvement.&nbsp;'We've said that before and we've laughed as we did.&nbsp;But actually it's not funny. People will believe this crap.&nbsp; Some already do.'&nbsp;She hit back at them and said the insurrectionists were 'trying' to get in to office building and that they were trying to reduce her trauma.&nbsp;In her 90 minute video, AOC described her interaction with the Capitol cop dramatically.&nbsp;She reenacted hiding behind her bathroom door and peeking through the gap between the hinge and the wall.&nbsp;&nbsp;'I see this white man in a black beanie... he yells "where is she?!"&nbsp;'I have never been quieter in my life...This man is a Capitol Police officer.&nbsp;'But the story doesn't end there... there was no partner, there was no yelling "Capitol Police."&nbsp;'It didn't feel right.'He was looking at me with a tremendous amount of anger and hostility and things weren't adding up,' she said.&nbsp; &nbsp;The Capitol cops that day were outnumbered by more than 10,000.&nbsp;The entire Capitol was put on lockdown and people were told to shelter in place - including those in the offices where AOC was. 'He was looking at me and all of this anger and hostility and at first,&nbsp;in my brain and in my mind, I thought OK I just came from this super intense&nbsp;experience just now, maybe I'm reading into this.'Maybe I am projecting something on to him.'I talked to G, my legislative director, and he said, "no I didn't&nbsp;know if he was there to help us or hurt us either."'G was actually like...this man came with so much hostility that G was sizing&nbsp;him up and didn't know if he was going to have to fight him.&nbsp;'That is how, like, aggressive the situation was.&nbsp;'We couldn't even tell, we couldn't read if this was a good situation or a bad situation.&nbsp;'Like so many other communities in this country, just that presence doesn't necessarily give you clear signal if you're safe or not,' she said.&nbsp;The cop told them to run across the street to the Longworth House Office Building, she said, where Porter's office was.&nbsp;'We can hear, the buildings were not secure yet, that we can like hear all of these rioters behind the glass of the door.&nbsp;'I hear the hinges cracking... you can hear all of this screaming.&nbsp;'The yells only get louder and louder... so we run to this member's office start knocking on the door.'I realized I had passed by Katie Porter's office.'I saw Katie going into her office just like holding a cup of coffee because all&nbsp;of these developments were happening so quickly... some people were at different urgency levels,' she said.&nbsp;Porter corroborated her story and said she consoled her while AOC opened closet doors and told her how she wanted to live to become a mother.&nbsp;'I just hope I get to be a mom. I hope I don't die today,' Porter recounted Ocasio-Cortez as having told her.&nbsp;&nbsp; Tucker Carlson labelled Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez a 'narcissist' last night after she posted a tearful Instagram about her traumatic experience of the Capitol riot.He accused the 31-year-old Democrat of manipulating voters with a deceitful video targeted at younger generations on social media.In a live stream on Monday night Ocasio-Cortez described how she was terrified she was going to be killed by Donald Trump supporters storming the Hill on January 6.She also compared those who denied her story to the 'tactics' of abusers, revealing that she was a 'survivor of sexual assault.'During the riot AOC was in Cannon House - offices which are part of the Capitol complex and not the Capitol Building itself which is around 300 yards away.Carlson commented on her video: 'There she is again. Defender of the common man, yammering on about the only subject she really cares about - herself.'Wallowing around in Lake Me like it's interesting to anybody but her. Narcissism on parade.'The perfect symbol of a culture dying from self-involvement. We've said that before and we've laughed as we did. But actually it's not funny. People will believe this crap. Some already do.&nbsp;'Carlson added: 'Trump voters weren't trying to kill her, and neither were U.S. senators.' AOC, in her video, then went on to slam the people telling her to apologize to Ted Cruz for claiming he tried to have her murdered.&nbsp;&nbsp;'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 apologize, these are the same tactics of abusers.&nbsp; 'I'm a survivor of sexual assault, I haven't told many people that in my life.&nbsp;'As a survivor, I struggle with the idea of being believed.'&nbsp;She gave no details about the assault or when it took place.&nbsp;The New York congresswoman drew parallels between the lawmakers seeking to 'move on' from the Capitol riot and the denial tactics used by abusers.&nbsp;'They're trying to tell us to move on without any accountability, without any truth-telling, or without confronting the extreme damage, loss of life, trauma,' she said.&nbsp;'When we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other.&nbsp;'There's no, something really big happens to you and then you deal with it and you move on, and then when something else happens to you, you deal with that.&nbsp;'Whether you had a negligent parent, 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.&nbsp;'These episodes can compound on each other.&nbsp;'All of your traumas can, kind of, intersect and interact.'&nbsp;She said those telling people to move on were using the same tactics as abusers.&nbsp;'She specifically called out some Republicans, including Ted Cruz, who she says encouraged the violence.'Some of the representatives who actually encouraged people to threaten members of Congress… are actually asking me to apologize for saying and speaking truth to what happened.&nbsp;'These are the tactics that abusers use...&nbsp;And how I feel is, not again.&nbsp;I'm not going to let it happen to me again…I'm not going to let it happen to our country,' she said.&nbsp;Share what you thinkThe comments below have been moderated in advance.The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.We are no longer accepting comments on this article.Published by Associated Newspapers LtdPart of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday &amp; Metro Media Group&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

&nbsp;Tuesday, Sep 13th 2022| 12kAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez has claimed she feared the Capitol cop who was sent to evacuate her from her office during the January 6 riot because he looked at her 'with hostility' amid accusations she 'exaggerated' her experience because she was never actually in the building that was stormed, and after accusing Sen. Ted Cruz of trying to have her 'murdered'.&nbsp;&nbsp;On January 6, Dem. Rep. AOC was in her office in the Cannon Office Building - which was evacuated but not breached - when rioters stormed the Capitol Building 0.3 miles away.&nbsp;In an...

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