Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic representative for New York, revealed during a live intervention on her Instagram account that she is a survivor of a sexual assault.
Ocasio-Cortez made the revelation while narrating live the trauma that took place Jan. 6, when he saw the attack on the Capitol by groups of radical Donald Trump supporters.
” I am a survivor of an assault. And I have not said that to many people in my life, ‘she said visibly moved.
The two situations, both the victim’s assault and the Capitol’s assault, presumed trauma to the New York congressman, despite the fact that the two events were unrelated.
Hidden in a bathroom
Ocasio-Cortez did not go into details of how the sexual assault took place of which he was the victim. What he did share was a detailed account of it how the riot that ended in the attack happened to Congress and described hiding in her bathroom in her office during the chaos of the Capitol riots last month and being rescued by police.
The representative compared the attitude of Republicans who do not want to pass judgment on the events in the Capitol with those who use “offensive tactics”.
“The reason I’m saying this and the reason I’m getting excited now is because these people (Republicans) are telling us to move on, which is okay, that we must forget what happened, and even when we apologize, they use the same tactics of the abusers, ”he said.
In January, a week before he left the White House, the House of Representatives challenged President Donald Trump on the grounds that he had “ stirred up a riot ” by motivating groups of his followers to march to Congressional headquarters to protest the bicameral meeting in which the result of the Electoral College in which Joe Biden was certified as the winner of the presidential election was received.
Ten Republicans joined the initiative to convict Trump, something that is causing a rift within the Republican Party divided on how to tackle the former president’s upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate. Many senators have said that while the former president bore some responsibility for the turmoil that ended in the attack on Congress, his prosecution will only fuel polarization.
On his broadcast, he assured that one cannot “move forward without being accountable. We cannot heal without being accountable. All these people who tell us to move forward are doing so for their own convenience.”
The congressman was elected by New York City’s 14th district, which includes some areas of the popular Bronx and Queens districts, as the poorest in the city.
