After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram diatribe about her experience during last month’s storming of the Capitol, her Republican neighbor just two offices down in the Cannon House Office Building pointed out her recollection was embellished. Rep. Nancy Mace, the freshman South Carolina congresswoman, noted on Twitter that no insurrectionists made it to their hallway, a point that Ocasio-Cortez didn’t expressly make (she said that people she thought were rioters turned out to be U.S. Capitol Police), but that some in the media had sensationalized as fact.
In response, AOC attacked her as silencing rape survivors, given that AOC had revealed she was sexually assaulted (an assertion that had no real relation to the Capitol storming).
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