{"id":1511119,"date":"2022-06-11T20:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T00:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1511119"},"modified":"2022-06-11T20:42:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T00:42:16","slug":"aoc-re-traumatized-by-jan-6-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-re-traumatized-by-jan-6-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC &#8220;Re-Traumatized&#8221; by Jan 6 Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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%2Faoc-re-traumatized-by-jan-6-hearing%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=1511119&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--><section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>New York Representative <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/aoc-goes-on-instagram-rant-talking-about-radicalized-young-men-following-uvalde-school-shooting\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <\/a>wasn&#8217;t in the Capitol building at the time it was breached by protestors and rioters on January 6, 2021. She was in the Cannon House Office Building, in her office. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Yet as her House colleagues perform the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/house-approves-resolution-to-create-select-committee-to-investigate-january-6-capitol-hill-riot\">Select Committee<\/a> Hearings on the events of that day, AOC has claimed to be re-traumatized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-tucker-carlson-calls-out-media-for-airing-jan-6-committee-trial-during-primetime\">recounts of the day<\/a>, and has shared her feelings about being made to remember what it was like to hide out in her office and be far from the action.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Good Lord,&#8221; AOC wrote on Twitter. &#8220;The way it all comes rushing back into the body. It&#8217;s like that day all over again.&#8221; She shared a jumbled video, a recording made using a cell phone to record video shown on a television screen, showing unarmed protestors outside the Capitol facing Capitol Police in riot gear. It cuts to footage of lawmakers and staff evacuating Congress through Rep. Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good Lord. The way it all comes rushing back into the body. It\u2019s like it\u2019s that day all over again. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/January6thCommitteeHearings?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#January6thCommitteeHearings<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5iOrrRLYAI\">pic.twitter.com\/5iOrrRLYAI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1535064531046928384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>During the breach of the Capitol, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/aoc-wasnt-in-the-capitol-building-at-the-time-of-the-jan-6-riot-she-was-in-another-building-entirely\">AOC was in her office in an adjoining office building<\/a>. Capitol police, who serve and protect the Capitol, came to check on her and make sure she was okay. In recounting her experience of that day, she said she felt scared of the officer, and later revealed that she had been the victim of a sexual assault in her past, and this is why she was scared, because she was reliving a previous trauma.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>At the time, she <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/aoc-compares-herself-to-war-veterans-after-her-capitol-riot-exaggerations-backfire\">likened her experience of being nowhere near the breach to that of veterans who had fought in a war<\/a>, prompting <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/aoc-trends-on-twitter-after-revealed-capitol-riot\">#AlexandriaOcasioSmollett to trend<\/a> on Twitter, linking her to another famous hoaxter. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>She blasted colleague Rep. Nancy Mace, saying that she was &#8220;dishonest&#8221; in &#8220;claiming that survivors are exaggerating are the stories of veterans and survivors in my community who deny themselves care they need &#038; deserve bc they internalize voices like hers saying what they went through &#8216;wasn&#8217;t bad enough.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Now she claims to be traumatized again, due to the Select Committee hearings. The hearings are being <a href=\"denied:Scoop: Jan. 6 committee&#039;s secret adviser - Axioshttps:\/\/www.axios.com \u203a Politics &#038; Policy\">produced for television by a daytime television executive who worked for Good Morning America<\/a>, an ABC morning talk show.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>AOC shared 21 seconds of surveillance video of protestors breaching the perimeter of the Capitol, cut with images of congressmen evacuating the congressional chamber. &#8220;The screams were everywhere,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This is what American terrorism looks like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The clip shows hundreds of people heading toward the Capitol dome, a close-up of people running, and then those in the House chamber. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In the days and weeks after the attack, right-wingers tried to downplay what happened. They said it was small. They accused us of lying by saying the attack was \u201conly\u201d @ the dome.<\/p>\n<p>No. They were everywhere. The screams were everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>This is what American terrorism looks like. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j2fqGoACZi\">pic.twitter.com\/j2fqGoACZi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1535067481915568128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>None of those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/capitol-breach-cases?combine=\">hundreds of people who were arrested and charged<\/a> in connection with January 6 were found to have firearms, or tools of death and murder that would be used in acts of violence and terrorism. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>AOC, however, advocates for protest that makes people uneasy, saying that&#8217;s essentially the point. After a violent summer of BLM and Antifa riots across the US in 2020, AOC posited in December of that year that making people uncomfortable is what protesting is all about.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Only one person experienced fatal violence on January 6, a protestor names <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.thepostmillennial.com\/p\/608659d4-5530-463b-be68-d378625af69a\/At%20the%20time,%20she%20likened%20her%20experience%20of%20being%20nowhere%20near%20the%20breach%20to%20that%20of%20veterans%20who%20had%20fought%20in%20a%20war,%20prompting%20the%20hashtag%20#AlexandriaOcasioSmollett%20to%20trend%20on%20Twitter,\">Ashli Babbitt<\/a>, and she was shot and killed by Capitol Hill Police. The officer was never charged, though Babbitt was unarmed, and as a diminutive woman, posed little threat.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In July 2021 it was revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/two-thirds-of-voters-want-congress-to-investigate-the-2020-riots-survey\">two-thirds of voters wanted an investigation<\/a> into the widespread violence, looting and rioting that took place over 120 days in the summer of 2020. That was not undertaken by Congress.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The Select Committee, with rhetorical flourishes and references back to everything from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement, is working hard to prove that Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States, intended to stage a violent coup, overthrow the government, and keep himself installed as president despite knowing that he&#8217;d been voted out.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The House had tried previously to prove these allegations during an impeachment hearing in the days following January 6, as Trump was essentially packing his bags and moving out of the White House at the end of his first and only term. The vote to impeach passed 232 to 197 and the charge was &#8220;incitement of insurrection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The Senate refused to take up the measure, in large part because it makes no sense to spend time and resources on impeaching a president who is no longer in office. However, as the 2024 general presidential election looms, those who oppose Trump are working very hard to make sure that he is not permitted to run for office again. Had he been fully impeached by both chambers of Congress, Trump would not have been legally allowed to seek further public office.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>At this time, Trump has not announced an intention to run for president, though he continues to hint that he has made a decision that will make people &#8220;happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wasn&#8217;t in the Capitol building at the time it was breached by protestors and rioters on January 6, 2021. 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