After Weeks of Expressing Trauma Over the “Siege” of the Capitol Building it’s Learned Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Was Nearly Half a Mile Away at the Time

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After expressing the fear she felt for her life during the “siege” of the Capitol Building on January 6 for weeks, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is being heavily criticized now that it has been revealed she was not in the Capitol Building at all at the time of the violence but rather in the Cannon House Office Building approximately half a mile away.

Cortez had spoken for weeks about the trauma she felt that day, most recently in a video shared on one of her social media accounts. She told followers in that video that the fear she felt on January 6 brought back emotions from a past sexual assault – an event she had not previously made public.

She disputes the assertion she was never in serious danger.

“This isn’t a fact check at all. Your arrows aren’t accurate. They lie about where the mob stormed & place them further away than it was,” she tweeted at journalist Jack Posobiec. “You also fail to convey *multiple* areas people were trying to storm. It wasn’t 1. You also failed to show tunnels. Poor job all around.”

Social media users nevertheless ridiculed the congresswoman fiercely, comparing her to Jussie Smollet, the actor who in 2019 claimed he was assaulted by Trump supporters. It was later learned Smollet paid two brothers to stage the assault to further his career.

As a result of the ridicule #AlexandriaOcasioSmollet became a trending hashtag on Twitter.

The siege at the capitol is being used as the basis for the second impeachment trial of President Trump. We’ve reported in the past how the timeline for Trump’s alleged incitement of the violence simply doesn’t add up.

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