Lawmakers stood before the House late Thursday to tell their personal, often stunning accounts of the siege of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, preserving for the record their own memories of the most violent domestic attack on Congress in the nations history.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., led colleagues in the hourlong session days before the former president’s impeachment trial, saying their stories need to be told at a time when some in Congress and the nation are trying to minimize the damage of Jan. 6 and move on.
“Sadly, this is all too often what we hear from survivors of trauma,” said Ocasio-Cortez, who was criticized by detractors this week after sharing her own harrowing story of hiding that day, fearing for her life.
She said, “Twenty-nine days ago, our nations Capitol was attacked. That is the big story. And in that big story lie thousands of individual accounts, just as valid and important as the other.”
One by one, the Democratic lawmakers no Republicans…