Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Opens Up About Trauma In an Moving and Powerful Instagram Live

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKIGetty Images Trigger warning: Reference to sexual assault. On Monday night, in a brave and candid video on Instagram Live, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed her deep trauma following the Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol, and the prior traumas that had made it even more triggering. Ocasio-Cortez shared that she is a survivor of sexual assault: “I haven’t told many people in my life,” she said. She began crying during her retelling of the events of Jan. 6, but fought to continue to tell her story. “All of your traumas can, kind of, intersect and interact,” she explained.Ocasio-Cortez compared Republicans’ insistence on telling her and other survivors of the Jan. 6 attack to “get over it” to the tactics used by abusers. She added: “The folks who are saying we should move on, we shouldn’t have accountability, etc., are saying: ‘Can you just forget about this so that we can do it again?’…I’m not going to let it happen to me again … and I’m not going to let it happen to our country.”She shared that on Jan. 6, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, she hid in the bathroom of her office. She heard someone break in, shouting, “Where…
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