Throughout her first days in workplace final month, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) distinguished herself from Home Republicans’ MAGA faction by talking
Throughout her first days in workplace final month, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) distinguished herself from Home Republicans’ MAGA faction by talking out in opposition to then-President Donald Trump’s encouragement of the January 6 revolt, which she mentioned “worn out” all of his accomplishments in workplace.
However fast-forward a month, and Mace is now engaged in a Trumpian effort to rewrite historical past.
On Thursday morning, Mace took to Twitter and accused Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) of mendacity throughout an account of what she went via on January 6 that she shared throughout an Instagram livestream earlier this week.
Ocasio-Cortez mentioned that on that day, she feared for her life when she heard banging on doorways and somebody yelling, “The place is she?” whereas she hid in a toilet. She thought the yelling is perhaps coming from Trump-supporting rioters, solely to later uncover that the commotion was really coming from a Capitol Police officer.
Mace mischaracterized Ocasio-Cortez’s account. Whereas Ocasio-Cortez by no means really claimed rioters entered the workplace constructing she and Mace share, Mace urged she did, tweeting, “I’m two doorways down from @aoc and no insurrectionists stormed our hallway.”
Mace’s deceptive assault on Ocasio-Cortez illustrates how, within the lead-up to Trump’s impeachment trial subsequent week, Republicans are shamelessly attempting to weaponize the January 6 revolt in opposition to Democrats. As an alternative of holding Trump or Republicans who indulged his lies about election to account, Republicans like Mace who initially took the revolt severely have pivoted to attacking Democrats and arguing it’s time for the nation to maneuver on.
Ocasio-Cortez, nonetheless, didn’t take Mace’s tweet mendacity down.
“Thought you’d be higher”
Ocasio-Cortez responded to Mace with a tweet accusing her of “a deeply cynical & disgusting assault,” noting that within the days following the riot, Mace herself did a sequence of interviews through which she acknowledged that the revolt created “a really harmful state of affairs” for Home members and put lives “in danger.”
As Ocasio-Cortez went on to notice, Mace tweeted on January 6 that her workplace was evacuated as a result of rioting.
“Now you’re contradicting your personal account to assault me for Fox Information clicks,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “It’s truthfully fairly unhappy to see you flip round like this and throw different individuals underneath the bus. Thought you’d be higher.”
This was what you have been saying just some weeks in the past.
Now you’re contradicting your personal account to assault me for Fox Information clicks.
It’s truthfully fairly unhappy to see you flip round like this and throw different individuals underneath the bus.
Thought you’d be higher.https://t.co/1WPlwUWlar
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 4, 2021
Later Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez posted one other Twitter thread saying she thinks it’s “Wild that @NancyMace is discrediting herself lower than 1 mo in workplace w/ such dishonest assaults. She *went on file* saying she barricaded in worry.”
“All I can consider w/ people like her dishonestly claiming that survivors are exaggerating are the tales of veterans and survivors in my group who deny themselves care they want & deserve bc they internalize voices like hers saying what they went via ‘wasn’t unhealthy sufficient,’” added Ocasio-Cortez, who in her Instagram livestream additionally revealed that she’s a survivor of sexual assault.
In the meantime, Mace continued her deceptive Twitter assaults on Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter …
This can be a false “FACT CHECK.” Ocasio-Cortez didn’t say insurrectionists have been of their hallway. She mentioned she was typically scared about what was happening and particularly scared by a Capitol police officer who appeared offended and hadn’t made clear he was with regulation enforcement. https://t.co/imRJjQ9KA1
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 4, 2021
… after which went on Fox Information for a softball interview the place she was allowed to mischaracterize Ocasio-Cortez’s phrases with impunity.
“I’m not going to low cost [Ocasio-Cortez’s] trauma,” Mace claimed at one level, despite the fact that the entire goal of the interview was to low cost Ocasio-Cortez’s trauma.
Foxworld is downplaying the revolt forward of Trump’s impeachment trial
Mace’s assault on Ocasio-Cortez comes whereas the Democrat’s Instagram livestream has been a serious subject of dialog on Fox Information. Ocasio-Cortez is being accused a number of instances a day of embellishing her account of how harrowing issues have been across the Capitol on January 6.
These assaults on Ocasio-Cortez are a part of a broader effort to preemptively justify not holding Trump accountable for the revolt throughout his upcoming impeachment trial by downplaying January 6 as actually not that massive of a deal. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), as an example, dismissed the concept that Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) who indulged Trump’s lies in regards to the election share within the duty for January 6 as “ridiculous” throughout a Fox Information interview on Wednesday.
Boebert’s interview with Laura Ingraham got here two hours after Tucker Carlson used his Fox Information present to downplay the revolt. Carlson mocked Ocasio-Cortez for fearing for her life, calling her account “crap,” and went so far as to disclaim that she was ever at risk.
“Trump voters weren’t attempting to kill her,” Carlson claimed, despite the fact that movies of the mob make it fairly clear any member of Congress who wasn’t doing Trump’s bidding was a goal.
In actuality, given the chaotic scenes of rioting and violence that unfolded in and across the Capitol on January 6, it’s stunning solely 5 individuals died (not together with two officers who have been on the scene that day and have since died by suicide). However now that the nation is sort of a month and a presidential transition of energy faraway from that day, Republicans try to absolve themselves and their colleagues of any duty by minimizing what occurred.
With the advantage of hindsight, it’s straightforward for somebody like Mace who wasn’t a goal of the Trump mob to say that Democratic elected officers actually had nothing to worry. However that she’s doing so whereas deceptive individuals about what Ocasio-Cortez mentioned suggests she’s Trumpier than she initially might have appeared.