Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says watching the January 6 hearings made all the trauma from the Capitol riot come 'rushing back into the body'
Cheryl Teh
Thu, June 9, 2022,
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York at a press conference on Capitol Hill on April 7, 2022.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recalled the trauma of having experienced the Capitol riot.
She said watching the January 6 hearings was like being there on that day "all over again."
"When I spoke of my fear of being raped again while locked in my office bathroom, @TuckerCarlson mocked it," she tweeted.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said watching the first televised hearing on the Capitol riot took her back to the traumatic experience of being there on the day.
Ocasio-Cortez posted a video of the hearing, where scenes of violence and sights of Trump supporters flooding the Capitol were being played.
"Good Lord. The way it all comes rushing back into the body. It's like it's that day all over again," she wrote.
"Look at this footage. @laurenboebert was tweeting the Speaker's location as this was all happening," Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
"When I spoke of my fear of being raped again while locked in my office bathroom, @TuckerCarlson mocked it. So did Boebert. @NancyMace insinuated to her supporters it was a lie," she added.
"White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways," the New York congresswoman said in an interview with CNN. "There's a lot of sexualizing of that violence, and I didn't think that I was just going to be killed. I thought other things were going to happen to me as well."
In response, Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked Ocasio-Cortez's fears of being raped, telling her to "get a therapist, honey." The congresswoman then hit back at Carlson, calling him a "talking inferiority complex."
Ocasio-Cortez has continued to speak up about the January 6 riot. In January 2021, she warned that the GOP leaders who dismissed consequences for those involved in the riots were "opening the door for it to happen again." And in April 2022, she said that the Capitol riot was "just a trial run" for those who hope to not legitimize the next presidential election.
The January 6 committee is holding a series of hearings this month to reveal its findings and show how Trump oversaw an effort to overturn the 2020 election and stay in power.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recalled the trauma of having experienced the Capitol riot.
She said watching the January 6 hearings was like being there on that day "all over again."
"When I spoke of my fear of being raped again while locked in my office bathroom, @TuckerCarlson mocked it," she tweeted.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said watching the first televised hearing on the Capitol riot took her back to the traumatic experience of being there on the day.
Ocasio-Cortez posted a video of the hearing, where scenes of violence and sights of Trump supporters flooding the Capitol were being played.
"Good Lord. The way it all comes rushing back into the body. It's like it's that day all over again," she wrote.
On Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted another video of what looked to be Trump supporters charging into the crypt at the Capitol building.
"Look at this footage. @laurenboebert was tweeting the Speaker's location as this was all happening," Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
"When I spoke of my fear of being raped again while locked in my office bathroom, @TuckerCarlson mocked it. So did Boebert. @NancyMace insinuated to her supporters it was a lie," she added.
Ocasio-Cortez has been vocal about her experiences during the riot and said in August 2021 that she feared she would be raped during the attack. Rep. Katie Porter later revealed that Ocasio-Cortez had hidden with her at some point during the Capitol siege, during which the congresswoman revealed that she thought she was going to be killed if the rioters found her.
"White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways," the New York congresswoman said in an interview with CNN. "There's a lot of sexualizing of that violence, and I didn't think that I was just going to be killed. I thought other things were going to happen to me as well."
In response, Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked Ocasio-Cortez's fears of being raped, telling her to "get a therapist, honey." The congresswoman then hit back at Carlson, calling him a "talking inferiority complex."
Ocasio-Cortez has continued to speak up about the January 6 riot. In January 2021, she warned that the GOP leaders who dismissed consequences for those involved in the riots were "opening the door for it to happen again." And in April 2022, she said that the Capitol riot was "just a trial run" for those who hope to not legitimize the next presidential election.
The January 6 committee is holding a series of hearings this month to reveal its findings and show how Trump oversaw an effort to overturn the 2020 election and stay in power.
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