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   From: democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov   
      
   So much for democrat leadership.   
      
   Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being dubbed “Alexandria Ocasio-Smollett”   
   as details emerge that she exaggerated the extent of her “trauma” from the   
   Capitol riot, given that she was not at the site of the siege, but in an   
   office building nearby.   
      
   In the four weeks since the riot, Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has said repeatedly   
   that she feared for her life on Jan. 6, as a result of a “very close   
   encounter.”   
      
   This week, the progressive pol shared more details of that encounter   
   during an Instagram Live.   
      
   Ocasio-Cortez was in her office, which is located in the Cannon building,   
   when rioters stormed the Capitol. The building is part of the overall   
   Capitol complex, but is not within the Capitol building itself.   
      
   She had been barricaded in her office for hours when a man who turned out   
   to be a Capitol Police officer rushed into her office to direct her to a   
   safer location for lawmakers.   
      
   The officer, AOC said, had “anger and hostility in his eyes,” making her   
   question if he was trying to put her in a “vulnerable situation.” Still,   
   she chose to trust him and not “pass judgment.”   
      
   The 31-year-old lawmaker then became emotional, revealing that she was a   
   sexual assault survivor, which caused her to “struggle with the idea of   
   being believed.”   
      
   She gave no details about the assault or when it took place.   
      
   That struggle, she said, kept her from speaking out initially about her   
   experience at the Capitol.   
      
   After she shared her story, Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) revealed that   
   during the riot, Ocasio-Cortez walked into her office, didn’t stop to   
   speak to her and just began opening cabinet doors.   
      
   “I was like, ‘Can I help you?’ Like, ‘What are you looking for?’” Porter   
   shared during an MSNBC appearance.   
      
   “‘I’m looking for where I am going to hide,’” Ocasio-Cortez reportedly   
   responded.   
      
   Porter said she tried to calm AOC down, saying that she was a mom and had   
   plenty of supplies in the office to sustain them.   
      
   “She said, ‘I just hope I get to be a mom. I hope I don’t die today,’”   
   according to Porter, who works next door to Ocasio-Cortez in the Longworth   
   office building.   
      
   The problem with her story, however, is that rioters did not storm the   
   building in question, which was confirmed by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who   
   tweeted, “My office is 2 doors down. Insurrectionists never stormed our   
   hallway.”   
      
   The accusation began to circulate on social media, resulting in the   
   Democratic socialist getting dragged on multiple platforms including her   
   favorite, Twitter.   
      
   After being called out by conservative journalist Jack Posobiec on the   
   platform with a map of the Capitol complex, the New York lawmaker   
   responded.   
      
   “This isn’t a fact check at all. Your arrows aren’t accurate. They lie   
   about where the mob stormed & place them further away than it was,” she   
   tweeted Wednesday afternoon. “You also fail to convey *multiple* areas   
   people were trying to storm. It wasn’t 1. You also failed to show tunnels.   
   Poor job all around.”   
      
   Posobiec’s map highlighted the 0.3-mile distance between the Democratic   
   lawmaker’s office building and the Capitol Rotunda itself.   
      
   After being called out by Ocasio-Cortez, Posobiec stood by the map,   
   sharing it again and writing, “Maps cut through the rhetoric.”   
      
   Posobiec went on to call AOC out for continuing to stand by her story,   
   writing a series of tweets, including one in which he screenshotted a post   
   from the lawmaker about how protests are supposed to make people   
   uncomfortable.   
      
   “This you?” he asked alongside the screenshot of AOC’s tweet saying, “The   
   whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable. Activists take   
   that discomfort w/ the status quo & advocate for concrete policy changes.   
   Popular support often start small & grows. To folks who complain protest   
   demands make others uncomfortable… that’s the point.”   
      
   Fox News host Tucker Carlson also slammed the two-term lawmaker, saying on   
   his primetime show Wednesday, “There were no rioters in Sandy Cortez’s   
   hallway. Trump voters weren’t trying to kill her, neither were other US   
   senators.”   
      
   “A lot of the rioters were angrier at [then-Senate Majority Leader] Mitch   
   McConnell than they were at any Democrat. To some extent, what you saw on   
   Jan. 6 was an intra-party struggle. Not all of it, but some of it. An act   
   of mindless destruction aimed at Republican leaders borne of long-   
   simmering frustration.   
      
   “The people who run the Republican Party don’t care about the people who   
   elect them. That has long been true,” Carlson said, adding that GOP   
   leaders were “likely in graver danger” than Democrats during the siege.   
      
   Reps for Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez provided a statement to The Post,   
   reiterating the fact that her office is connected by underground tunnel to   
   the Capitol Dome and that the congresswoman was at risk on Jan. 6.   
      
   “The Congresswoman’s office is connected to the Capitol Dome by an   
   underground tunnel. It is at most a 10 minute walk.  If someone breaks   
   into your house through the kitchen, and you’re physically upstairs, no   
   one thinks you’re safe. Capitol police evacuated her office building   
   during the attack because they deemed them at significant risk. In   
   reality, there is no actual question about whether Members, particularly   
   high profile targets for the Right, were at risk that day. This online   
   campaign of disinformation is nothing more than an attempt for Republicans   
   to avoid accountability for inciting a deadly riot that killed five   
   people, including a police officer, and attempted to overthrow a   
   democratic election.”   
      
   Speaking about the accusations that she was exaggerating or lying about   
   her experience, Ocasio-Cortez issued multiple tweets defending herself.   
      
   “You may not know that you know a survivor, but it’s highly likely that   
   you do. Survivors of trauma are close to you. They are people you love &   
   you may not know. Many decide whether their story is safe with someone by   
   how they respond to other survivors. Don’t push them away,” she wrote in   
   one of multiple posts.   
      
   “The sad thing about disinformation is that once the truth comes out, the   
   damage has already been done. People have already been misled, radicalized   
   & believe lies to a point where their hatred has brewed to violence,” she   
   wrote in another.   
      
   “That’s what led to the 6th, and it’s happening right now.”   
      
   “Like when you misled people all week, for example,” Posobiec responded in   
   another tweet.   
      
   Following the interaction with Posobiec, the hashtags #AOClied and   
   #AlexandriaOcasioSmollett vaulted to the top trends in the US, an apparent   
   comparison to actor Jussie Smollett, who falsely claimed to be the victim   
   of a hate crime.   
      
      
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