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AOC Says She Woke Up to Stacks of Photos From FBI Showing 'People Who Want to Kill' Her
https://www.newsweek.com/aoc-says-she-woke-stacks-photos-fbi-showing-people-who-want-kill-her-1542820Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez said she used to wake up to a stack of photos from Capitol police or the FBI of people threatening to kill her as abuse quickly became the norm for her and those in her life.
"I used to wake up in the morning and literally get a stack of pictures that were forwarded by Capitol police or FBI. Like, 'These are the people who want to kill you today,'?" AOC told Vanity Fair this week.
The hate extended to her family, including her brother, Gabriel, who would receive calls from the FBI warning him not to open his mail due to bomb threats, according to the publication. Other targets of abuse include the designer of her Cesar Chavezinspired campaign posters, who would receive death threats, and her former dean at Boston University, who would regularly receive emails calling him the n-word.
She also noted that her offices would be flooded with calls, voicemails and emails from Trump supporters repeating any recent jabs against her by President Donald Trump, from calling her a "poor student" to a "wack job."
The threats go far beyond just leaving a voicemail or commenting online. A month into her first term in the House of Representatives in 2019, a Coast Guard lieutenant and self-described white nationalist, Lt. Christopher Hasson, was arrested in Maryland with a stockpile of weapons as part of a plot to kill Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, among others. Hasson was sentenced to 13 years in prison earlier this year after pleading guilty to federal gun and drug charges.
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AOC Says She Woke Up to Stacks of Photos From FBI Showing 'People Who Want to Kill' Her (Original Post)
ItsjustMe
Oct 2020
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Ohiogal
(31,989 posts)1. Disgusting
dubyadiprecession
(5,707 posts)2. Trump never speaks out against these domestic terrorist....
But he is great at fanning the flames of hate!
That must be why they never try to debase the slogan, Make America Hate Again.
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)5. "Make America Hate Again" that's really the essence
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)3. tRump is a danger to everything that's good about America.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)4. What kind of lives do these people have...
where they can spend that much time spewing hate and threatening violence. I've read about instances where the police think of threats as 'pranks', but if they were being threatened... we know how that would end.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)6. Did Hasson only want to kill women in power and no men?
The tough guy may have some mommy issues.