'Only subject she cares about – herself': Tucker accuses AOC of narcissism for Capitol riot story

Tucker Carlson labelled Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez a ‘narcissist’ last night after she posted a tearful Instagram about her traumatic experience of the Capitol riot.

He accused the 31-year-old Democrat of manipulating voters with a deceitful video targeted at younger generations on social media. 

In a live stream on Monday night Ocasio-Cortez described how she was terrified she was going to be killed by Donald Trump supporters storming the Hill on January 6.

She also compared those who denied her story to the ‘tactics’ of abusers, revealing that she was a ‘survivor of sexual assault.’ 

During the riot AOC was in Cannon House – offices which are part of the Capitol complex and not the Capitol Building itself which is around 300 yards away.

Carlson commented on her video: ‘There she is again. Defender of the common man, yammering on about the only subject she really cares about – herself.

‘Wallowing around in Lake Me like it’s interesting to anybody but her. Narcissism on parade.

‘The perfect symbol of a culture dying from self-involvement. We’ve said that before and we’ve laughed as we did. But actually it’s not funny. People will believe this crap. Some already do.’ 

Carlson added: ‘Trump voters weren’t trying to kill her, and neither were U.S. senators.’ 

Ocasio-Cortez tweeted last week that Senator Ted Cruz ‘almost had me murdered’ during the riot, claiming that he encouraged the Trump mob. 

She’s been asked to apologize for that but on Monday night resolutely stood by the tweet, comparing those who tried to tell her to do so to sexual abusers. 

AOC lashed those who didn’t believe her story about the Capitol riot and said it reminded her of past trauma from sexual assault.  

‘The reason I’m getting emotional in this moment is because these folks who tell us to move on, that it’s not a big deal, that we should forget what’s happened, or even telling us to apologize, these are the same tactics of abusers,’ Ocasio-Cortez said. 

‘I’m a survivor of sexual assault, I haven’t told many people that in my life.

‘As a survivor, I struggle with the idea of being believed.’

Many people including Carlson struggled to believe her story about the Capitol riot, with the hashtag #AlexandriaOcasioSmollet trending, a comparison to actor Jussie Smollett who faked he was the victim of a hate crime. 

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C) poured scorn on AOC’s story, saying that her office was close to the Democrat’s and that there hadn’t been anyone storming the hallway.

She wrote: ‘AOC made clear she didn’t know who was at her door. Breathless attempts by media to fan fictitious news flames are dangerous.

‘My office is 2 doors down. Insurrectionists never stormed our hallway. Egregious doesn’t even begin to cover it. Is there nothing MSM won’t politicize?’ 

In her Instagram video Ocasio-Cortez described in detail how she hid in the bathroom of her office.

She heard bangs at her door and shouts of ‘she’s in there,’ AOC claimed.

Ocasio-Cortez was terrified that they were the MAGA brigades but later discovered it was a Capitol Police officer.  

Alt-right commentator Jack Posobiec tweeted a map of the area highlighting the distance between the Cannon House offices and the Rotunda. 

‘AOC wasn’t even in the Capitol Building during her ‘near death’ experience,’ he tweeted. 

Ocasio Cortez came back fighting on Twitter last night calling it ‘the latest manipulative take on the right. 

‘They are manipulating the fact that most people don’t know the layout the Capitol complex. We were all on the Capitol complex – the attack wasn’t just on the dome. The bombs Trump supporters planted surrounded our offices too.’  

Two pipe bombs were discovered during the siege, one outside the Republican National Committee and another outside the Democratic National Committee.

Cannon House is on the same block as the RNC and a little further away from the DNC, about 400 yards.

The Bronx-born congresswoman sparred repeatedly with Posobiec on Twitter.

When he posted a map, captioned ‘fact check’, she responded: ‘This isn’t a fact check at all. Your arrows aren’t accurate. They lie about where the mob stormed & place them further away than it was. 

‘You also fail to the convey *multiple* areas people were trying to storm. It wasn’t 1. 

‘You also failed to show tunnels. Poor job all around.’ 

She said: ‘People were trying to rush and infiltrate our office buildings – that’s why we had to get evacuated in the first place. The attempts of attackers & publicly available communications show how they tried to gain access and share location info on finding members for physical harm.’

She added that it was ‘damning’ that Republicans were engaged in a ‘discrediting campaign’.

‘It is also very damning and revealing that the GOP is now digging both heels in a discrediting campaign,’ she said. 

‘It’s because they know they are implicated, so they’re pivoting to (again) the classic abuse playbook of ‘it’s not as bad as they say.’ 

‘It was that bad. It’s actually worse.’  

The New York congresswoman drew parallels between the lawmakers seeking to ‘move on’ from the Capitol riot and the denial tactics used by abusers. 

‘They’re trying to tell us to move on without any accountability, without any truth-telling, or without confronting the extreme damage, loss of life, trauma,’ she said 

‘When we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other. 

‘There’s no, something really big happens to you and then you deal with it and you move on, and then when something else happens to you, you deal with that. 

‘Whether you had a negligent parent, or whether you had someone who was verbally abusive to you, whether you are a survivor of abuse, whether you experience any sort of trauma in your life, small to large. These episodes can compound on each other.’ 

‘All of your traumas can, kind of, intersect and interact.’  

She said those telling people to move on were using the same tactics as abusers. 

She specifically called out some Republicans, including Ted Cruz, who she says encouraged the violence.

‘These are the tactics of abusers, or rather, these are the tactics that abusers use,’ she said.  

‘This is not about a difference of political opinion, this is about basic humanity.

‘The accountability is not about revenge. It’s about creating safety. And we are not safe with people who hold positions of power who are willing to endanger the lives of others if they think it will score them a political point.’ 

At one point, Ocasio-Cortez appeared to wipe away tears.   

She had earlier apologized to her friends and family watching who may learn ‘things about me that you didn’t know before’. 

‘It’s not about hiding. Sometimes you just can’t tell the same story over and over,’ she said.

Ocasio-Cortez went on to recount the terror she felt during last month’s attack on the US legislature at the hands of Trump supporters who were trying to overturn the election results. 

She explained how at one point a man whom she believed to be a rioter broke into her congressional office as she hid in the bathroom.

She recalled hearing him yelling: ‘Where is she? Where is she?’

‘This was the moment where I thought everything was over,’ she said. ‘I thought I was going to die… I have never been quieter in my entire life.’

She later said she found out the man was actually a Capitol Police officer.

Ocasio-Cortez came out shortly after, when her legislative director told her to, and saw the officer in the office. 

She said the officer told them to go to another building, but didn’t say specifically where or escort them.

‘You don’t know if that person was actually trying to protect you or not,’ she said.

Fellow lawmaker Katie Porter took to MSNBC to say that she had provided Ocasio-Cortez with a pair of sneakers during the riot, in case she needed to ‘run for her life’.

‘I just hope I get to be a mom. I hope I don’t die today,’ Porter recounted Ocasio-Cortez as having told her. 

‘My story is not the only story, nor is it the central story, it’s one of many stories of what these people did in creating this environment,’ Ocasio-Cortez said.

‘These folks who are just trying to tell us to move on are just like pulling the page – they’re using the same tactics – of every other abuser who tells you to move on.’ 

Ocasio-Cortez went on to address calls for her to apologize after tweeting last week that Senator Ted Cruz ‘almost had me murdered’ during the riot.

‘Some of the representatives who actually encouraged people to threaten members of Congress… are actually asking me to apologize for saying and speaking truth to what happened.

‘These are the tactics that abusers use… And how I feel is, not 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 told viewers: ‘If you have experienced any sort of trauma, just the fact of recognizing that and admitting it is already a huge step. Especially in a world where people are constantly trying to tell you that you didn’t experience what you experienced, or that you’re lying.

‘Those are additional traumas on traumas that you’ve already experienced. There’s the trauma of going through what you went through, and then there’s the trauma afterwards. Of people not believing you, or trying to publicly humiliate you, or trying to embarrass you.’ 

Ocasio-Cortez, whose district includes parts of the Bronx and Queens, is one of the most prominent progressive leaders in the United States.

She has become an influential voice in both New York City and national politics – often drawing intense and sometimes vitriolic criticism from those on the right. 

She had strong condemnation for Trump for inciting the riots, as well as members of his administration who did not invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office, as well as those who voted to overturn the election results.