Photo via @aoc/Instagram, Office of Congresswoman Nancy Mace
February 4, 2021, 11:23 am
Still more Republicans are trying to come after Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after she shared her harrowing story of hiding in her office bathroom during the assault on the Capitol last month.
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A previously largely ignored congresswoman Nancy Mace, who sold herself as a moderate to get her seat, tweeted that “no insurrectionists stormed our hallway” where House member offices reside.
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Of course, Ocasio-Cortez never claimed that insurrectionists stormed the hallway, only that someone started banging on her office door and she and her aides didn’t know who it was, so they hid. It turned out to be a Capitol police officer, who for some reason directed them to the place where the insurrectionists were, but this in no way discounts Ocasio-Cortez’s story.
The progressive congresswoman hit back at Mace by sharing clips from news stories showing that her Republican colleague was just as afraid of the insurrectionists, barricading herself inside her office and spending the night there.
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“This is a deeply cynical & disgusting attack, @NancyMace,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “As the Capitol complex was stormed and people were being killed, none of us knew in the moment what areas were compromised. You previously told reporters yourself that you barricaded in your office, afraid you’d be hurt.”
In a second tweet, AOC linked to a post made by Mace on January 6 saying that she had just been evacuated from her office due to the insurrectionist threat and sharing a video of them fighting the Capitol police.
“Now you’re contradicting your own account to attack me for Fox News clicks,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “It’s honestly pretty sad to see you turn around like this and throw other people under the bus.”
In a follow-up thread, she discussed how minimizing the Capitol assault for political points could further hurt all survivors of traumatic events by demonstrating the cruel way in which their stories are often dismissed.
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“This is where the true damage of what @NancyMace is doing comes in,” she wrote. “How many survivors are watching her? Who now, seeing her, won’t get care or will feel further shame or silence? Who won’t speak up bc they know there are voices in leadership ready to minimize their experiences?”
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Mace tried to counter by claiming that AOC is “making this political,” as though it wasn’t already a conflict between two politicians over an attempted coup to stop the certification of a political election. She’s currently getting ratio’d for that one.
Not once did she say anything about “victims of assault”, but since you are primed to attack and argue, you are basically making her point for her.
This was never about you, until you decided to put yourself out there minimizing her experience for attention.
— Cyndi Borowski
(@BorowskiCyndi) February 4, 2021
Good lord, just take the L. Watching you dig this hole deeper is mortifying.
— Charlotte Clymer
(@cmclymer) February 4, 2021
And meanwhile, AOC’s supporters flooded the #AOCLied hashtag with photos of their pets to drown out right-wing misinformation.
Nope! She was brave and heartfelt and vulnerable.. All at same time! Also, here’s a pic of my really cute axylotl daenarys(Got)#AOClied pic.twitter.com/yFmg8c6Jfa
— BIDEN~HARRIS
(@Lisasaraiva489) February 4, 2021
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*First Published: February 4, 2021, 11:23 am
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