Alexandria Ocasio-Smollett Trends on Twitter: Actress Congresswomen Lied About Location During Capitol Protest
(Chaz Anon) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wasn’t even in the Capitol building when Trump supporters got baited into storming the capitol by agent provocateurs. AOC called it a “near death experience” on Jan. 6, but Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) says she was in the Cannon Building which is nearby. But of course, her gullible followers assume that she was in the Capitol building.
According to Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who has an office in the same hall as AOC, two doors away, there were never any rioters in their hall so there was never any physical danger from rioters coming in at any point.
.@AOC made clear she didn’t know who was at her door. Breathless attempts by media to fan fictitious news flames are dangerous.
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) February 2, 2021
My office is 2 doors down. Insurrectionists never stormed our hallway. Egregious doesn’t even begin to cover it. Is there nothing MSM won’t politicize? pic.twitter.com/Tl1GiPSOft
AOC claimed she had nearly come face to face with the rioters herself according to her own story, which claimed they breached her office as reported by Newsweek:
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.”
AOC’s building appears to have been briefly evacuated during the day as police checked on a nearby suspicious package that was later cleared.
So her “near-death experience” was an overreaction to a Capitol Police officer knocking on her door to direct her to another building, the Longworth Building, where she then stayed in the office of Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA). Instead of thanking the officer, she paints him as somehow a possible danger of which to be afraid. The Capitol Police were likely trying to evacuate the building quickly, it’s possible the officer was focused on getting people out quickly so likely didn’t have time for all the niceties.
AOC did multiple tweets in response to my story so I’ll walk through them and point out how she’s being manipulative.
This is the latest manipulative take on the right.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 3, 2021
They are manipulating the fact that most people don’t know the layout the Capitol complex.
We were all on the Capitol complex - the attack wasn’t just on the dome.
The bombs Trump supporters planted surrounded our offices too. pic.twitter.com/jI18e0XRrd
“This is the latest manipulative take on the right,” she said. “They are manipulating the fact that most people don’t know the layout the Capitol complex. We were all on the Capitol complex – the attack wasn’t just on the dome. The bombs Trump supporters planted surrounded our offices too.”
No, actually that was her being manipulative by not clarifying that her office was not in the Capitol building that rioters had breached. Her building was actually about 6 minutes away. Now again, not saying that there wasn’t any reason to be concerned at all, just pointing out the facts in perspective.
“People were trying to rush and infiltrate our office buildings – that’s why we had to get evacuated in the first place.”
There are no public reports of her building being breached. In fact, it was locked down. As I previously reported, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) who has an office two doors down said that no rioters got into their hall. According to public reports, her office building was evacuated and the Capitol Police officer came to get her because of suspicious packages and she was evacuated to the Longworth Building. They were told by the police to use the tunnels to evacuate out to Longworth because then they wouldn’t be exposed to anything outside.
