AOC said she avoided 'extraction points'
during Capitol storm because she feared
'white supremacist members of Congress
would disclose her location so she
could get hurt or kidnapped'
Posted By: Ribicon, 1/14/2021 6:05:12 PM
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) expressed concern that her own colleagues in Congress might have shared her location to the mob of fanatic Trump supporters while they were storming the Capitol last Wednesday. Ocasio-Cortez's remarks comes as other Democrats have sounded off on the possibility that some GOP members of the Congress abetted the rioters as they stormed the building. Lawmakers were instructed to head for a designated 'extraction point' to seek protection from the chaos, but AOC asserted that that wasn't really an option 'because there were QAnon and white-supremacist sympathizers and, frankly, white-supremacist members of Congress in that extraction point
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The Republican-Democrats dare not defend themselves against the bug-eyed barmaid's wild claims. How about they all resign and give New America the Congress of Color that it so richly deserves?