AOC's Trauma (As Diagnosed by Ayanna Pressley)

Emma Gray reports via a Twitter thread:

@AOC  just shared on IG Live that she is a survivor of sexual assault.

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She says that this is part of the reason she has waited to tell her story of her experience during the Capitol insurrection. As a survivor, she is used to not being believed. 

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@AOC  says 1 week before the insurrection she was getting texts that she needed to be careful, specifically on the 6th.

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In a deeply relatable move, AOC says she was singing Nina Simone and feeling great after Ossoff and Warnock won in Georgia. (Just before the insurrection began.)

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 Then after 1pm, AOC says she heard a BOOM. "I hear these huge violent bangs on my door and then every door going into my office."

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This is harrowing. AOC says she was told to run and hide. She jumped into a bathroom, closed the door, and then realized she should have hidden in the closet. She opened the door to run across to the closet and could hear that someone had gotten into her office.

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While AOC was hiding she heard people yelling: "Where is she?" They even opened the bathroom door and she was hiding directly behind it. "I thought everything was over," she says of that moment.

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AOC is very clear: "I thought I was going to die."

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AOC is breaking down in tears talking about her state of mind when she thought she might die. "I had fulfilled my purpose."

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She says that the man turned out to be a Capitol police officer. But he was looking at her with anger and hostility, and he was there without a partner. Something did not feel right. She wasn't sure if she was projecting.

"It felt like a zombie movie," AOC says of the experience.

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Eventually AOC ended up sheltering in 

@katieporteroc 's office. She says that she tore through Rep. Porter's office looking for places to hide.

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AOC is getting choked up talking about the staffers who were willing to put themselves between the representatives and any potential danger entering the office.

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Later that night, when AOC told @AyannaPressley  what had happened to her earlier, Rep. Pressley immediately told her that she had experienced TRAUMA.

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 "Recognizing and admitting [trauma] is already a huge first step. Especially in a world where people are trying to tell you that you didn't experience what you experienced." -@AOC

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AOC is hammering home that accountability is necessary for safety. Currently there is no accountability, and therefore no safety.

"You want to be president so bad that you are going to allow your own colleagues' lives to be in danger," AOC says, calling out the "craven" ambitions of people like Cruz and Hawley... 

It is possible to be in panic when threatening uncertain events are rapidly unfolding around you. But the idea is to get a grip and try to understand the developing situation.

That AOC feared a Capitol Hill copper "looking at her with anger and hostility," says a lot. Wouldn't a true leader identify herself and take control and gather details from the copper of the situation?

And it remains absolutely bizarre that AOC continues to push the idea that Senators Cruz and Hawley acted in some "craven" manner that put her life in danger?

She is upset because Cruz and Hawley made comments in the Senate questioning the validity of some of the electoral votes.

This is a very slick attack on free speech in the halls of Congress---and another example of the continued lefty assault, by any means necessary, on anyone who is not part of the social justice warrior program.

 -RW