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It s understandable that famous socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would be terrified when pro-Trump rioters were raging at the Capitol on January 6. But AOC s backers in the Fact Checker community are fiercely editorializing on her behalf and putting the facts somewhere in the background. They weren t going to check on AOC s charge that Ted Cruz was trying to get me killed.
They were going to defend AOC after her dramatic Instagram Live video had been viewed by millions and became a sympathetic top story on the network evening news shows.
Snopes went big at the top of their home page:
Feb. 4, 2021 10:49 am
I’ve never seen Snopes read like a left-wing news site more so than in their latest defense of AOC and her harrowing but phony tale of how she was about to die at the hands of insurrectionists sent to find her by Ted Cruz.
Here’s how it starts:
In the aftermath of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., took to Instagram Live on Feb. 1, to relay her personal account of how the events of that day had traumatized her.
One theme covered in her retelling of those events was how her past experiences with trauma, particularly surviving sexual assault, had compounded her fear during and after the Capitol riot.