This week the House approved setting up a 9/11-style commission to look into the Capitol riot, with 35 Republicans crossing the aisle to vote for the bill.
With this fresh on her mind, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the January 6th MAGA riot at the US Capitol ‘an all-out attempted coup’ and said her colleagues in the House were too scared to talk about it.
Calling it an ‘extraordinarily traumatizing event’ she indicated that it had affected relationships in Congress
‘It has deeply, deeply affected lawmaking, policy making and it’s very quiet, it’s not spoken about,’ she told journalist Maria Hinojosa in an interview airing Friday on the weekly public radio show ‘Latino USA.’
‘Pence was the one person, arguably, that had one of the most important roles in making sure that procedurally the Electoral College counts went on as proceeded. Sixty seconds could have meant potentially the difference between what we have right now and a martial state,’ Ocasio-Cortez said. ‘This was an all-out attempted coup.’
‘If 60 seconds went differently, if a different door was opened, if a chair wasn’t barricaded in a certain way, we could have a completely different reality right now,’ she said. ‘We don’t want to acknowledge that that’s how close we got, but that is how close we got.’
