{"id":26962,"date":"2021-02-04T21:45:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=158749"},"modified":"2021-02-04T21:45:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:45:49","slug":"it-was-that-bad-its-actually-worse-ocasio-cortez-hits-back-after-republicans-challenge-her-capitol-attack-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/04\/it-was-that-bad-its-actually-worse-ocasio-cortez-hits-back-after-republicans-challenge-her-capitol-attack-story\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It Was That Bad. It’s Actually Worse’: Ocasio-Cortez Hits Back After Republicans Challenge Her Capitol Attack Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As U.S. lawmakers on Thursday prepared to take to the floor of the House of Representatives to tell their stories of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted Republicans who cast aspersions upon her experiences on that deadly day.<\/p>\n

“You’re contradicting your own account to attack me… Pretty sad to see you turn around and throw other people under the bus.”
\u2014Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 
to Rep. Nancy Mace<\/p>\n

Right-wing media and pundits have called into question<\/a> accounts by Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) that she feared for her life during the storming of the Capitol by a murderous mob inflamed by President Donald Trump and his lie that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen.” <\/p>\n

In a January 13 Instagram Live video<\/a>, Ocasio-Cortez said, “I can tell you that I had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die” as the pro-Trump invaders rampaged through the Capitol complex, fatally beating<\/a> a Capitol police officer, trampling a woman to death<\/a>, and chanting threats including “hang [former Vice President] Mike Pence”<\/a> and “take me to the traitors.” <\/a><\/p>\n

On Monday, Ocasio-Cortez released<\/a> a new Instagram Live video in which she provided more details of how she was traumatized during the Capitol attack, including how she hid silently with her legislative director, Geraldo Bonilla Chavez, in the office of Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) and feared she would have to run for her life. <\/p>\n

“I thought I was going to die,” she said<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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