AOC On Jan. 6 Riot: I'm "Doing Therapy" Because Of Trump, Members Of Congress `Served In War'

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed during a recent interview that
she was “doing therapy” because of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol,
adding that former President Donald Trump had her in a “very reactive mode.”

Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks during an interview late last week with Latino
USA, saying that the events of January 6 were “extraordinarily traumatizing.”

Business Insider highlighted one specific claim that AOC made:

…Ocasio-Cortez said that the insurrection was deeply traumatizing
for many members of Congress, who effectively “served in war.”

“The cycle has just been moved on, but it has deeply, deeply affected
lawmaking, policymaking, it has impacted the actual legislative process, the
aftermath of it, and it’s very quiet, it’s not spoken about,” AOC said. “I
think after the 6th, I took some time and it was really Ayanna Presley, when
I explained to her what had happened to me like the day of, because I ran to
her office. And she was like, you need to recognize trauma and that this is
something that you went through, but we’re all going through.”

When asked by the host of the show if she was “doing therapy,” AOC responded:
“Yeah. Oh, yeah, I am doing therapy.”

“But also, I’ve just slowed down,” she continued. “I think the Trump
administration had a lot of us, especially Latino communities, in a very
reactive mode. And so I’ve been putting myself in more proactive space.”

AOC claimed that it was “an all-out attempted coup” and that the U.S. was
potentially only 60 seconds away from having “a martial state.”

AOC responded to criticisms of her claims of what happened that day by
claiming that those who were criticizing her were doing so out of “white
supremacy.”

“I think the attacks on the right are about, there are certain mythologies
that are really important to this idea of American exceptionalism,” she
claimed. “But there’s also certain mythologies that are very important to
maintaining white supremacy, white supremacy in and of itself is a mythology.
And you have to protect it in order to protect that political power, which
has now become a very important base in the Republican Party. And that’s why
that response was so vociferous, to make it seem that it wasn’t as bad as it
was, and it was bad.”

Ocasio-Cortez has opened up in the past about her stress, saying that she had
to significantly cut back on social media because “it has effects on
everybody,” including “increased isolation, depression, anxiety, addiction,
escapism.”

“I actually think that social media poses a public health risk to everybody,”
Ocasio-Cortez said. “There are amplified impacts for young people,
particularly children under the age of 3 with screen time. But I think it has
a lot of effects on older people. I think it has effects on everybody.
Increased isolation, depression, anxiety, addiction, escapism.”

“I personally gave up Facebook, which was kind of a big deal because I
started my campaign on Facebook,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “And Facebook was
my primary digital organizing tool for a very long time. I gave up on it.”

“Like every once in a while, you’ll see me hop on Twitter on the weekends,
but for the most part, I take consumption of content, when it comes to
consumption and reading, I take the weekends off,” Ocasio-Cortez added. “And
so I’m not, like, scrolling through trying to read everything online that
journalists are writing on weekends. I try to do that during the workweek.”

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