{"id":134998,"date":"2021-08-10T04:27:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T04:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=134998"},"modified":"2021-08-10T04:27:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T04:27:02","slug":"rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-she-feared-being-sexually-assaulted-on-jan-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/politics\/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-she-feared-being-sexually-assaulted-on-jan-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says She Feared Being Sexually Assaulted On Jan. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said she was afraid on Jan. 6 that she would be sexually assaulted if the violent pro-Trump mob that breached the U.S. Capitol that day managed to find her.<\/p>\n
The lawmaker, who has spoken\u00a0about how she hid for hours in the barricaded office of a colleague during the violence, discussed the day of the insurrection in an interview with CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash, set to air Monday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhite supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways. There\u2019s a lot of sexualizing of that violence,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said. \u201cI didn\u2019t think that I was just going to be killed. I thought other things were going to happen to me as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if she feared she was going to be raped, Ocasio-Cortez said,\u00a0\u201cYeah, I thought I was.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also spoke about the way racism and misogyny were deeply rooted in the Capitol attack, and how they \u201canimated\u201d the events that took place.<\/p>\n
Ocasio-Cortez revealed in February that she is a survivor of sexual assault. In a lengthy Instagram Live post, she spoke about how the trauma of that assault compounded with her experience at the Capitol on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n
Her past traumas weighed on her mind that day as she hid from the attackers, she told Bash.<\/p>\n
\u201cSurvivors have a very strong set of skills. And the skills that are required as a survivor, the tools that you build for resilience, they come back in right away,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said in June. \u201cAnd for me, I felt like those skills were coming right back so that I could survive.\u201d<\/p>\n
She has also spoken about attending therapy to help in the aftermath of the traumatizing events of Jan. 6.<\/p>\n
Since her election to Congress in 2018, Ocasio-Cortez has been the frequent subject of attacks from former President Donald Trump, Republican lawmakers and conservative pundits, making her a target for vitriol from their supporters.<\/p>\n
Need help? Visit RAINN\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><\/em>National Sexual Assault Online Hotline<\/span><\/em>\u00a0or the\u00a0<\/span><\/em>National Sexual Violence Resource Center\u2019s website<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\nRELATED…<\/h3>\n