“I just hear ‘where is she, where is she’ and this was the moment where I thought everything was over,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a video posted to her social media recounting her terrifying experience in the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. Her video received over 6 million views, but she is now being compared to Jesse Smollett, the actor who not only fabricated but set-up a fake attack story.
As RedState reports, there are “a few important things to note that seem to have been left out of this whole story.” To begin, if AOC was in her office, she was in the Cannon building where congressional representatives’ offices are held; not the Capitol building where the rioters had entered.
Second, Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) holds the office just two doors away, in the same hallway as AOC. Congresswoman Mace expressed her doubts of AOC’s claims on Twitter, writing, “@AOC made clear she didn’t know who was at her door. Breathless attempts by media to fan fictitious news flames are dangerous.”
Mace used the specific words ‘fictitious’ and ‘dangerous’ because, as she explained, “my office is 2 doors down. Insurrectionists never stormed our hallway. Egregious doesn’t even begin to cover it. Is there nothing MSM won’t politicize?” stated Mace, referring to the mainstream media blindly covering AOC’s recollection.
Reports then surfaced that it was not rioters intent on an assassination against a U.S. Representative, but rather, a Capitol Police officer knocking on her door. Alas, AOC makes reference of the Police Officer in her video as well but describes the officer as an assailant. “There was no partner, was not yelling, ya know, ‘Capitol Police,’ etcetera, etcetera.”
Ocasio-Cortez goes on to say of the Officer, “but then it didn’t feel right. Because he was looking at me with a tremendous amount of anger and hostility.” The Congresswoman then repeats herself and says she talked to her staff member and legislative director ‘G’ and he confirmed her suspicion, saying, “No. I didn’t know if he was there to help us or hurt us either.”
She then claims that they couldn’t read “if this was a good situation or a bad situation” and G was sizing up the officer in case he had to fight him. The story ends with the officer “yelling” at her telling her which building to run to for safety. Well, she didn’t put it that way, she simply said he yelled at her and told her where to go. Because both AOC and ‘G’ are alive and well, we are assuming that the “hostile” Capitol officer told her where to go for her own safety.