#AlexandriaOcasioSmollett Trends After It’s Revealed AOC Wasn’t Even In Capitol During January Riot
The hashtag “#AlexandriaOcasioSmollett” became a top trend on Twitter Wednesday as users connected the dots to find that the New York congresswoman wasn’t in the Capitol building during her “near-death experience.”
Since the attack, the 31-year-old Democrat has only escalated the hysteria surrounding her own safety, speaking directly to her millions of followers on Instagram and publishing inflammatory posts on Twitter, contradicting herself along the way. The week after the attack, AOC claimed her Republican colleagues would help the criminal rioters find and hurt her as the mob stormed the Capitol complex.
“I myself did not even feel safe going to that extraction point,” Ocasio-Cortez said of the House bunker harboring lawmakers from the chaos, “because there were QAnon and white supremacist sympathizers and frankly white supremacist members of Congress in that extraction point.”
So the congresswoman remained in the House offices across the street instead, in buildings left largely untouched by the riotous mob.
It remains unclear, however, in which office Ocasio-Cortez sought shelter. This week in an Instagram live story, hysterically amplified by legacy media, she said she hid in a bathroom to protect herself from a male Capitol Police officer, claiming she thought he was going to kill her.
According to Newsweek, Ocasio-Cortez said she hid in her office, which is located in the Cannon House Office Building, as mob rioters stormed the hallways.
Here’s what Newsweek reported:
Ocasio-Cortez said that rioters actually entered her office, forcing her to take refuge inside her bathroom after her legislative director Geraldo Bonilla-Chavez told her to “hide, hide, run and hide.”
“And so I run back into my office,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I slam my door. There’s another kind of like back area to my office, and I open it, and there’s a closet and a bathroom. And I jump into my bathroom.”
That story, however, contradicts another shared by California Democratic Rep. Katie Porter, who described a scene in which her New York colleague sought refuge in her office, which is located in the Longworth building. In heart-wrenching testimony, as if the horde had been slamming on Porter’s office doors, Porter recounted Ocasio-Cortez telling her, “I just hope I get to be a mom. I hope I don’t die today.”
Neither the Longworth nor Canon buildings were overwhelmed by the Trump supporters who had descended on the Capitol grounds that day.
Despite the demonstrative absence of extreme danger in either location where Ocasio-Cortez might have hidden, the New York leader of the socialist “Squad” in the lower chamber has only ramped up the rhetoric, claiming she stared death in the eyes at the doing of her Republican colleagues.
Last week, she claimed Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz tried to kill her, provoking Republicans in the House and Senate to demand a censurefor the egregious allegation.
This week, as Porter recalled the tale of the two sheltering together, Ocasio-Cortez revealed during another Instagram live session that she had been sexually assaulted in her past, which might explain the congresswoman’s hysterics in the aftermath of the Capitol riot.
“I’m a survivor of sexual assault,” she told her audience. “And I haven’t told many people that in my life. But when we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other.”
The comparison of Ocasio-Cortez to former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett by Wednesday’s Twitter hashtag relates to a heinous hate crime Smollett apparently staged in 2019 that prompted a six-count indictment in February last year. Cook County prosecutors had previously dropped 16 other charges while insisting the move did not exonerate him.
Before it became revealed that the hate crime appeared to be a hoax, then-California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris decried the act a “modern day lynching.”
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