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Look at this article... she knew she would be called out... she has set it up that anyone who calles Bull Shit will be seen as an abuser, a bully, because this "trama of Jan 6th reminded her of her "sexual assault."
"There's the trauma of going through what you went through," she said, "and then there's the trauma afterwards of people not believing you, or trying to publicly humiliate you, or trying to embarrass you.
"And that also gets internalised, too, because a lot of times you don't want to believe it either."
Ms Ocasio-Cortez said she was prepared for criticism after sharing her sexual assault ordeal because it was not directly related to the Capitol riot.
"People are going to say that, 'Oh, she's just trying to make it about her,'" she said. But all of your traumas can intersect and interact, she added.
She said Congress had made counsellors available for lawmakers, especially those who had encountered rioters, in order to help them process the ordeal.
"Those 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 just tells you to move on," she said.
AOC: Ocasio-Cortez says she is sexual assault survivor
The Democratic politician said the violent storming of the Capitol made her relive past trauma.
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