Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, was going to talk about what happened in the assault on the Capitol on January 6 by a mob of supporters of former President Donald Trump, in which five people died and in which she herself feared for his life.

And he surprised his almost nine million followers by revealing that he had suffered a sexual assault in the past: "Many of the people who perpetrated that on January 6 are telling us that it was not so bad, that we forget that, without assuming the consequences of what happened. Much damage was done. We cannot move forward without being held accountable for what happened.

They tell us to move on, to forget what happened. That is the same technique of sexual abusers. I myself am a survivor of sexual abuse

l ".

With tears in her eyes, visibly moved, she apologized to her friends for revealing this story now in this way: "There are times when you can't tell the same story over and over again."

"When we go through a trauma, those experiences add up and make us who we are (...). People tell you it's not that bad. But

I'm not going to let it happen again, not to me, or to other people. who have been victims, not even our country,

"said the congresswoman, who won a New York seat in 2018, becoming the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and a rising star of the Democratic Party.

Of Puerto Rican origin, she worked as a waitress before making the leap into politics.

In the video of almost an hour and a half, which has already been reproduced for almost a million, the congresswoman also devoted herself, in great detail, to recounting the preparations for the assault on the Capitol days before to "destroy the version of that this insurrection happened suddenly, that it was an outbreak of people. Everyone knew the days before that something was going to happen. "

She also recounted how, when she heard the assailants break into the Capitol by banging on doors and walls, she hid in the bathroom of her office, and heard a man enter her office looking for her, shouting 'Where is she, where is she?'

"That was the moment when

I thought it was all over

, you lose track of time, in hindsight maybe it was four seconds, I don't know, but my brain was able to have so many thoughts. I thought I was going to die. I've never been more silent in my whole life. ", he said.

"I thought that if this had been the trip of my life, everything would be Ok and I would have already achieved my goal."

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