Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – Capitol attack stirred up old trauma

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive Democratic Congresswoman, has been describing her fear of being killed in the January 6th Capitol invasion and how it triggered an earlier trauma in her life when she was sexually assaulted.  She hit back at conservative Republicans like Ted Cruz for denying what she described as their responsibility for the storming of the Capitol complex, which left five people dead.   Born 13 October 1989 at 11.50am Bronx, New York (from memory), she ha