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Where was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during the Capitol riot?

Nearly a month after supporters of President Donald Trump violently stormed the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recounted the experience from her perspective.

In a 90-minute Instagram Live video, Oscasio-Cortez described fearing for her life as she hid in the bathroom of her office in the Cannon House Office Building, a part of the Capitol complex.

Days later, the second-term congresswoman pushed back against right-wing critics who said she exaggerated the danger she faced during the riot.

“AOC wasn’t even in the Capitol building during her ‘near death’ experience,” read one headline on RedState, one of severalconservative websites that questioned Ocasio-Cortez’s account.

“AOC lied!” another headline said. “She Wasn’t Even in the Capitol Building During the Riot…Her Life Was Never in Danger: Report.”

Similar claims attacking Ocasio-Cortez cropped up in widespreadposts on Facebook, where they were flagged as part of the company’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) 

On Twitter, hashtags likened Ocasio-Cortez to actor Jussie Smollett, who was indicted for false reports to police and accused of staging an attack against himself.

The criticism also reached cable news. “There were no rioters in (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s) hallway,” said Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “Trump voters weren’t trying to kill her.”

Ocasio-Cortez stood by her remarks and pushed back against the attacks online. As she went back and forth on Twitter with conservative activist and One America News Network correspondent Jack Posobiec, readers asked PolitiFact what was true and what wasn’t.

It’s true that Ocasio-Cortez was not in the main Capitol building where the House and Senate chambers are located as rioters broke in. She was in the Cannon building. 

But she never claimed in her video to have been in the main Capitol building, and the Cannon building was one of two buildings in the broader Capitol complex that was forced to evacuate.Ocasio-Cortez feared she “could die” as police knocked on her door

In her Instagram Live video, Ocasio-Cortez said she had just gotten off the phone with her chief of staff and was scrolling through lunch options at around 1 p.m. when she heard “huge, violent bangs on my door.” It was like “someone was trying to break the door down,” she said. 

YOU’LL FIND THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW ON ‘POLITIFACT’: https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/feb/04/ask-politifact-where-was-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-/

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I came to America in 1977, after having lived my first 38 years in my native country, Germany. I resided in Zurich, Switzerland and Annecy, France in my early 20s, studied English and French, both mandatory languages in High School, at a Business Language College in Frankfurt. Being curious about the rest of the world, I left my various office jobs as secretary, office manager, court transcriber and entered the travel industry in the mid-70s, as a licensed city guide in Frankfurt and translator. I pursued escorting groups through Europe, the United States and Canada and was successful. My love for travel took me to Yemen, Oman, Jordan, The United Emirates, Bahrain and Sri Lanka as well as to South Africa, with which I truly fell in love. I had always an interest in writing and often got an A+ for my essays in high school. Later on, I expressed my opinions in letters to newspapers. They were usually published. I volunteered as press secretary at one of Germany’s annual “Kirchentag”, a global convention of Christian ministers in the country. I met my husband, Denis, a native of Chicago, an educator and former Peace Corps volunteer in the late 70s in Scottsdale, AZ. He had just escaped from a country close to a revolution, followed by the ousting of Shah Reza Pahlavi in Iran. We were married in 1981 by Sandra Day O’Connor, just after her appointment to the US Supreme Court, in the backyard of our close friend Louise in Scottsdale. After we lived in the Los Angeles area for a short time, my husband was contracted by the University of Petroleum and Minerals in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia in 1982, where he had served twice already. I was happy to follow him on a new venture (new for me) to spend 6 years there. In the early years, I acted as a representative for ALIA, the Jordanian Airline, Gulf Air, based in Bahrain and organized and escorted groups of university faculty members to Yemen on 3 different occasions. In 1985, back in Arizona, I became an American citizen. At that time we started Egan Tour Service, Inc., a receptive tour operator, catering to European groups traveling into the U.S. and Canada. Something I had planned for a long time! We operated the Company successfully until the end of 1999, when we both returned to Saudi Arabia for a last assignment of my husband’s many “visits” to the region, not knowing that this would last just a short 2 years with the dreadful attack on New York on September 11, 2001. We were traumatized! The world would never be the same again. We returned back home 3 weeks later. It is important for me to state, that the university’s campus also housed 500 faculty members of various ethnic groups of all colors, backgrounds from many foreign countries. I very much enjoyed the interaction with all of them, exchanging customs, speaking different languages and socializing. Since my husband had spent 17 years of his working life in countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia during 3 different decades, he started a speaking series back in the US, about the Middle East, it’s culture, languages, history and religion of the different Islamic factions at colleges and private institutions. I, who always loved homes and interior design, tried my luck in real estate, which I worked in until 2011. I am now retired and a hobby painter, love classical music, the outdoors golf and skiing and our social life with friends. I am a proud and fierce supporter of our DULY ELECTED President, Donald Trump. 8 years of a green horn like Barrack Hussein Obama, a community organizer and ACTIVIST who almost brought the Country to its knees with either intended or irresponsible presidency. Coming from a socialist country like Germany and the previous communistic regime of Eastern Germany, I am deeply saddened about America’s plunge into division of it’s people, the rebirth of racism and hate, orchestrated by President Obama.

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