Rep. Katie Porter on GOP attacking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s account of Capitol riot: ‘Absolutely untrue’
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) joined Cuomo Prime Time Thursday, the place she got here to the protection of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as Republicans query Ocasio-Cortez’s account of her expertise throughout the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6. On Monday, Ocasio-Cortez, one of probably the most maligned Democrats amongst conservative voices, recounted her expertise on Instagram Live, talking concerning the sounds she was listening to, and folks yelling, “Where is she?” Ocasio-Cortez stated she genuinely feared for her life, at one level even questioning whether or not a Capitol police officer was there to assist her or hurt her. Porter stated the claims that Ocasio-Cortez is mendacity about her expertise are “absolutely untrue.”
“She came to my office building. I saw her. She asked if she could come into my office. I am here to tell you and everybody, she was terrified,” Porter stated, including, “I have never seen her like that before. She was clearly very, very rattled and very, very scared.”
The controversy started Thursday morning when Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) posted a tweet contradicting Ocasio-Cortez’s claims.
However, on Jan. 6 because the rebellion was occurring, Mace sang a a lot completely different tune.
Just evacuated my workplace in Cannon on account of a close-by menace. Now we’re seeing protesters assaulting Capitol Police.
This is fallacious. This is just not who we’re. I’m heartbroken for our nation immediately. pic.twitter.com/jC9P0YfSLQ
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) January 6, 2021
Porter, who in a earlier interview stated she gave Ocasio-Cortez a pair of sneakers to put on in case she needed to run for her life that day, stated the 2 of them hid in her workplace for a number of hours, not sure of what was occurring simply exterior.
“We had no way to know if and when the people who had penetrated the Capitol were coming through the tunnels to get us,” Porter stated. “No way to know if the voices that we heard in the hallway were those of police officers or those of the mob.”
Porter added that everybody skilled the rebellion in another way, and that Ocasio-Cortez’s expertise shouldn’t be discounted.
“We were there. She was there. Everyone’s gonna have — everyone did have a different experience of that day,” Porter stated. “Some of my colleagues were in their apartments during that time, watching it on TV. Some of them were in the Capitol itself. Some of them were evacuated by Secret Service. Some of them were on their own. But there’s no point in taking away her experiences. The goal here is to make sure the Capitol is a safe workplace where we can focus on doing the job that the American people sent us there to do.”
Cuomo Prime Time airs weeknights at 9 p.m. on CNN.
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