![]() Though she rarely showed it in public, Ocasio-Cortez told Bash that her first term “was very painful.” When Ocasio-Cortez arrived in Washington two years ago, fresh off a ground-shaking upset to a high-ranking Democratic incumbent, her new colleagues were slow to embrace her. “Because I think a lot of survivors would rather never talk about what happened ever again.” I’m going to do this now.’ It feels like something happens in the circumstances that almost propels you to, and almost forces you in a way to come forward,” Ocasio-Cortez said. The decision weeks later to tell her story of sexual assault from her early 20s, she said, had not been “a conscious one.” “That’s not how we’re kind of trained into thinking.” “There’s no way that a person in that situation would have even thought that that was law enforcement,” she told CNN. The congresswoman, just beginning her second term, described in the video being locked in the bathroom in her office, listening to banging on doors and eventually hearing a voice demand, “Where is she?” Ocasio-Cortez did not know at the time that it was a Capitol Police officer – because, she said, the officer did not identify himself. ![]() ![]() Her revelation in an Instagram Live video came less than a month after supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, breached security, and began to wend their way through its halls in search of lawmakers. Ocasio-Cortez first shared in February that she had been sexually assaulted years earlier. “There’s a lot of sexualizing of that violence.” “White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways,” Ocasio-Cortez said. She also traced the feeling back to what she described as the “misogyny and the racism” that “animated” the “attack on the Capitol.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reacts to Fox News' coverage of her
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