'You didn't only think you were going to die, you thought you were going to be raped?' CNN host Dana Bash questioned.
'Yeah, I thought I was,' Ocasio-Cortez responded nodding.
'White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways,' the progressive Democrat said when recalling that day. 'There's a lot of sexualizing of that violence and I didn't think that I was just going to be killed, I thought other things were going to happen to me as well.'
Ocasio-Cortez's emotional recollection appeared in a preview for the CNN series Being, which is airing an episode on her Monday evening.
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'One of the reasons why that impact was so doubled that day is because of the misogyny and the racism that is so deeply rooted, and animated that attack on the Capitol,' she stated.
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The New York lawmaker already explained that she worried she'd be killed in her past accounts of January 6th.
She further blamed Republican Senator Ted Cruz for 'almost' having her 'murdered' weeks after the attack.
AOC's account of coming close to being struck by the violent Trump followers has been denounced by House Republicans.
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'I'm two doors down from AOC and no insurrectionists stormed our hallway,' Rep. Nancy Mace announced earlier this year.
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On January 6, the Democrat lawmaker was in her office in the Cannon Office Building - which was evacuated but not breached - when rioters stormed the Capitol Building 0.3 miles away.
Right-wing pundits like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Jack Posobiec further blamed the lawmaker for exaggerating her account.
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Carlson, on his Fox News show, stated: 'The only subject she really cares about – herself.
'There she is again. Defender of the common man, yammering on about the only subject she really cares about - herself.
'Wallowing around in Lake Me like it's interesting to anybody but her. Narcissism on parade.'
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'AOC Wasn't in the Capitol Building During Her 'Near Death' Experience,' Posobiec wrote on Twitter, adding in a separate tweet that 'Maps cut through the rhetoric.'
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Owens compared her to Jussie Smollett, the Empire actor who was blamed for lying regarding being attacked by Trump followers.
'I'd like to remind everyone that I live in Washington D.C - just a few blocks from the Capitol building,' Owens wrote clearly mocking the Congresswoman. 'Long story short, Ted Cruz tried to murder me too. #AlexandriaOcasioSmollett'
The hashtag #AlexandriaOcasioSmollett started trending and people said she too had lied about the events of the day.