As if Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wasn’t traumatized enough during the time that violent MAGA-hatted, QAnon-believing Trump supporters came looking for her when they invaded the Capitol Building complex on January 6th, now she has to contend with freshman Republican lawmakers seeking to gain their own notoriety through attacks on the progressive firebrand’s believability.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez defended herself fiercely today when Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) tried to provide an alternate narrative of the danger that AOC and many other legislators and their staffs faced on that horrifying day.
I'm two doors down from @aoc and no insurrectionists stormed our hallway… https://t.co/pAuLh4Vvam pic.twitter.com/xRV4qqY7Qs
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) February 4, 2021
AOC was quick to remind the newly minted Congresswoman that her tune was quite different immediately after the violent intrusion into the halls of power by the unruly and bloodthirsty mob.
This was what you were saying just a few weeks ago.
Now you’re contradicting your own account to attack me for Fox News clicks.
It’s honestly pretty sad to see you turn around like this and throw other people under the bus.
Thought you’d be better.https://t.co/1WPlwUWlar
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 4, 2021
One response to her colleague wasn’t enough for the New York City congresswoman to fully expound on her displeasure with the false and partisan attacks from the South Carolina Republican.
She returned to the fray of the nascent Twitter feud in a subsequent series of posts.
All I can think of w/ folks like her dishonestly claiming that survivors are exaggerating are the stories of veterans and survivors in my community who deny themselves care they need & deserve bc they internalize voices like hers saying what they went through “wasn’t bad enough”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 4, 2021
How many food workers or custodial workers or Capitol Police officers, who ran for their lives in Longworth or feared for their families in the weeks after the attacks, now think their terror is less valid because of her statements?
Mace’s attacks are attacks on them, too.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 4, 2021
Rep. Mace feebly attempted to respond to the crushing accusations of partisan hypocrisy in one of her multiple replies to Ocasio-Cortez’s posts.
*FACT CHECK*
I have not once discounted your fear. We were ALL terrified that day.
I’m stating the fact that insurrectionists were never in our hallway… because they weren’t. I deal in facts. Unlike you, apparently. https://t.co/S6CWasKNpY
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) February 4, 2021
The South Carolina Congresswoman would have more credibility if Twitter wasn’t peppered with receipts of her reaction to the events of January 6th that she posted in real-time.
With political zealots like Representative Mace in the opposition in Congress, it’s no wonder that progressive Democrats are as worried for their safety and security while they are working from what should be the safe spaces of their congressional offices as they are walking through a crowd of raging QAholics.
Chalk up another Twiter feud victory for the Congresswoman from the Bronx!
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