6, as Trump supporters began clashing with police outside the Capitol, Ocasio-Cortez was searching on her phone for a place to get lunch for herself and her legislative director when they suddenly heard someone banging on her office door. Those warnings were then heightened by her own experiences being out in public in Washington, DC, in the two days leading up to the attack. Nearly a week before the attack, Ocasio-Cortez said she began receiving text messages from other members of Congress telling her that she needed to be prepared for violence on the day of the Electoral College certification.
"Why I think it’s important for us to hold this to account is because we know that … when they say 'Can we just move on?'," what they’re really saying, she continued, is, "'Can we just forget this happened so I can do it again without recourse?'" She also compared the tactics of those who maintained Trump’s lies about the election to those of abusers. Ocasio-Cortez also revealed that she is a survivor of sexual assault and described how the trauma of one experience can be compounded by another. In the more than hourlong livestream, the New York Democrat discussed the warnings that she and other members of Congress had in the days leading up to the violent insurrection at the Capitol and provided new details about the " very close encounter" in which she thought she "was going to die," as she revealed in an Instagram Live weeks ago. "What that tells me is that when given another window of political opportunity for themselves, even if they know that it means, that it will endanger their colleagues, they will do it again." They’re trying to tell us to move on without any accountability, without any truth-telling," she continued. "They’re trying to tell us that it wasn't a big deal. Ocasio-Cortez said her story was one of many, but she felt compelled to tell it as some Republicans who have repeated lies that the election was "stolen" from Donald Trump have urged Democrats to move on. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez opened up about her traumatic experience evacuating from her office during the attack on the US Capitol in an emotional Instagram Live Monday night, saying that in order to heal, the nation needs those who played a role in inciting the violence on Jan.
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