Something I found from AOC at the time:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has said she feared for her life, in part because she doubted the motives of unnamed colleagues who were sheltering with her.
“There were QAnon and white supremacist sympathizers, and frankly white supremacist members of Congress, in that extraction point who I have felt would disclose my location and would create opportunities to allow me to be hurt, kidnapped, etc.,” Ocasio-Cortez, a highly visible progressive and frequent target of conservative media, said in a speech Tuesday streamed live on Instagram.
AOC the Drama Queen of the House.
She must feel it’s working for her.
Has she called out Antifa yet?
“No, Ted Cruz Did Not Try To Have AOC Murdered”
Manipulating language to impute guilt and wrongdoing to political opponents is dangerous, and the left should cut it out.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday accused Sen. Ted Cruz of almost having her murdered. Really.
She was responding to a two-word tweet from Cruz agreeing with her about the need for a congressional hearing about the recent stock market insanity. “Happy to work w/almost any other GOP that aren’t trying to get me killed,” she wrote, presumably with a straight face, before calling on Cruz to resign.
In fact, Cruz did not try to have AOC murdered. What he did do was formally object to the certification of the Electoral College vote in a more or less ceremonial joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, the same day an angry mob forced its way into the U.S. Capitol.
In AOC’s mind, Cruz is responsible for what happened, along with then-President Trump, Sen. Josh Hawley, and more than 120 other members of Congress. They incited the mob by questioning the election results, you see, and because some people in that mob were violent and unruly, Cruz and the others basically tried to have AOC murdered. Or so goes this thinking.
It’s easy to laugh off AOC’s brittle hyperbole here, but these kinds of outlandish logical leaps have become commonplace in recent weeks, along with a tendency to pretend rote political catchphrases like “fight for your country” or “fight like hell”—a phrase Trump used in his Jan. 6 speech—should be taken literally, as an incitement to violence, which is ridiculous.
Nevertheless, rigid hyper-literalism is all the rage these days in Washington. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said, somewhat cryptically, “the enemy is within” the House, and later explained she was talking about “members of Congress who… have threatened violence on other members of Congress.”
If true, that’s a pretty big deal. But it’s not. Pelosi was referencing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a newly elected Republican from Georgia who’s a known QAnon conspiracy theorist. As such, she’s said some pretty idiotic and downright crazy things in recent years.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/29/no-ted-cruz-did-not-try-to-have-aoc-murdered/
Drama queen.
Reps should all start tweeting that they are afraid to attend sessions where she is present since she is hostile against republicans and may get violent and they fear for their lives when she is around.