AOC's account of Capitol Insurrection

With the Felon-in-Chief back stomping across the globe, flexing his flabby muscles and spreading mostly misery, this speech is a reminder of the hellscape in the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

I regularly search the date on my Speakola library of speeches to see if any of the 3000+ speeches I’ve uploaded there are celebrating a speech-averseary. This one was delivered on February 1st, 2021, and it’s not so much a speech as a lengthy, hour long piece to camera by AOC on her Instagram feed.

In the embed below, go to the 44 minute mark which is annotated ‘what happened’ in the timeline.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Wikipedia Commons

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'I thought everything was over', description of Capitol riot - 2021

1 February 2021, Washington DC, USA

And I immediately realised that I shouldn't have gone into the bathroom, I should have jumped in the closet. And so I open the door, when all of a sudden I hear that whoever was trying to get inside, got into my office. And then I realise that it's too late, that it's too late for me to get into the closet. And so I go back in and I hide back in in the bathroom, behind the door. And then I just start to hear these yells of, 'Where is she? Where is she? And I just thought to myself, they got inside.