{"id":118577,"date":"2021-02-05T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=118577"},"modified":"2021-02-05T08:42:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T13:42:45","slug":"its-hard-aoc-comforts-tlaib-as-she-weeps-on-house-floor-recounting-death-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-hard-aoc-comforts-tlaib-as-she-weeps-on-house-floor-recounting-death-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Hard\u2019: AOC Comforts Tlaib As She Weeps On House Floor Recounting Death Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-hard-aoc-comforts-tlaib-as-she-weeps-on-house-floor-recounting-death-threats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=118577&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1156365148.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) comforted her fellow \u201cSquad\u201d member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) as she wept on the House floor Thursday recounting the death threats she has received since taking office and explaining how hard it is to be a Muslim woman in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>During a special order hour that Ocasio-Cortez organized, Tlaib and several other members of Congress told the stories about their personal experiences during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Tlaib was not present at the Capitol during the riot, but was moved with emotion remembering how the riot made her feel.&nbsp;As she rose to speak, she started to cry almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn my very first day of orientation, I got my first death threat,\u201d Tlaib began. \u201cIt was a serious one. They took me aside, the FBI had to go to the gentleman\u2019s home. I didn\u2019t even get sworn in yet and someone wanted me dead for just existing. More came later. Uglier, more violent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tlaib\u2019s emotion rose as she went on to mention a death threat she received that celebrated the New Zealand mosque massacre and another that mentioned her son by name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach one paralyzed me each time,\u201d Tlaib continued, as Ocasio-Cortez moved into frame to console her. \u201cSo what happened on Jan. 6, all I could do was thank Allah that I wasn\u2019t here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tlaib continued to explain how her staff keeps her death threats away from her now because they paralyze her with fear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I wanted to do was to come here and serve the people that raised me,\u201d Tlaib cried, remembering her mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so it\u2019s hard. It\u2019s hard when my seven brothers and six sisters beg me to get protection, many urging me to get a gun for the first time.&nbsp;And I have to tell you, the trauma for just being here and existing as a muslima is so hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez moved back into frame as Tlaib\u2019s voice trembled with emotion again as she explained how she fears for the life of her staff because they are a diverse team that includes LGBT people, black women, and a Muslim woman.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;On my very first day of orientation, I got my first death threat&#8217;: Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib makes an emotional plea to take the January 6 Capitol attack seriously <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/297PIkZvlQ\">pic.twitter.com\/297PIkZvlQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1357493627308630016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a press release earlier on Thursday, all of the participants listed for the special order hour were Democrats: Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Cori Bush (D-GA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Adriano Espillat (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Peter Welch (D-VT), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Mark Takano (D-CA), and Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lawmakers will share their personal stories of the Jan. 6 attack on the House floor tonight.<\/p>\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AOC<\/a> will kick&nbsp;off the special order hour <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rhj10BGe9F\">pic.twitter.com\/rhj10BGe9F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scottwongDC\/status\/1357325057283002369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez has lately been embroiled in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-aoc-was-not-inside-capitol-building-during-breach-on-jan-6\">controversy<\/a> regarding her account of the Capitol riot, with critics accusing her of exaggerating the threat she was in since she was in the Cannon House Office Building rather than the Capitol building, where the Senate and House are located.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Republican Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), whose office is two doors down from Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, noted that \u201cinsurrectionists\u201d never made it to their hall when the U.S. Capitol building was breached on Jan. 6.&nbsp;Mace made the note while hitting the media for their attempts to&nbsp;\u201cfan fictitious news flames\u201d about the breach.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On Jan. 6, Mace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counton2.com\/news\/national-news\/rep-mace-evacuated-from-office-as-protesters-storm-capitol\/\">tweeted<\/a> that she left her office in the Cannon Building, still inside the Capitol complex but some distance from the Capitol Rotunda and House Chambers: \u201cJust evacuated my office in Cannon due to a nearby thereat,\u201d she wrote. \u201cNow we\u2019re seeing protesters assaulting Capitol Police.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) comforted her fellow \u201cSquad\u201d member Rep. 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