AOC Recalls ‘Traumatizing’ Experience Of Being ‘Nearly Assassinated’ During Capitol Riots

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Tuesday night recalled the “traumatizing” experience of witnessing the deadly insurrection of the Capitol in real time.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1354372

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So lets go to the video

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Trying to count in my head how many GOP House members would sell out AOC to the mob. It’s not a particularly small number.

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What could have happened is so much worse than what did happen.

Expose it all. Make them pay. Every one of them.

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Traumatizing? Without a doubt.

Nearly assassinated? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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She … like many of us … need to arm ourselves against right wing threats. We can’t just sit around and accept what they want to impose on us. Especially a target like her. I feel for her and hope she can keep up the good fight.

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Let alone the Dem side of the Chamber.

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Wife of Ben Domenech, Federalist Trumpanzee says what?

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And what do you know that we don’t? Were you there? They beat a cop to death but you think they would’ve held back if AOC was within sight? None of us know exactly what happened but I think I will give her the benefit of the doubt. Jesus.

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[white supremacist members of Congress]

Let’s establish that reality, OK?..Like taxes and faxes…

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From just the videos we’ve seen so far, lawmakers and insurrectionists came very close to contact. Given the multiple break-in points, entirely possible that some came into much closer quarters during the evacuation.

But yeah, eyebrow raising, I want to hear more.

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Reps Maloney and that jerk from OK (Markwayne something) can be seen in the video where that woman was shot trying to break into the House Chamber. They were seconds from being overrun and I’m sure AOC was at the top of their target list.

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I’m sure there are plenty of Dems who find AOC annoying, but I doubt any of them are evil enough to point the mob in her direction. I’m confident Greene, Boebert, Gosar, and others would, if they thought they could get away with it.

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FFS Boebert tweeted out the movement of the Speaker. The fact she hasn’t been arrested yet and infuriating.

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Sort of like that 2nd and 3rd wife. But you need the eggs.

Totally OT, but you gotta love the Luxembourg Foreign Minister’s way with words: “political pyromanic” and “Trump’s poodles.”

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That’s overblown. All she tweeted was that the Speaker was taken out of the chamber. Any number of reporters said the same. If she had tweeted that Pelosi was barricaded in her conference room, that would be something different.

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I’ve always been fascinated by the origin of the word, assassin. It comes from the Arabic, ‘Hashish Eater’.