Rep. Mace on ongoing AOC feud: 'I've been living rent-free in her Twitter account all weekend'
Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter on Saturday to rip Mace for fundraising off the 'false' experience
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Freshman GOP Rep. Nancy Mace fired back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday after the New York Democrat accused her of "dishonesty and opportunism" for questioning her experience surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Mace, R-S.C., and Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., have been in a social media spat all week after she challenged Ocasio-Cortez's recollection of what happened on Jan. 6 when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol.
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After Ocasio-Cortez said in a video last month that she "had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die," Mace and others called her out, claiming rioters didn't enter her office building and suggested that the congresswoman was exaggerating her claims.
Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter on Saturday to rip Mace for fundraising off the "false" experience and blamed her for intentionally hurting "other survivors and women to make a buck."
"I simply literally just tweeted one sentence and said there were not insurrectionists in the hallway and I was two doors down from her and it was mass hysteria for like two days and I've been living rent-free I guess in her Twitter account all weekend as well," Mace responded on "The Next Revolution" Sunday.
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Mace told host Steve Hilton that she was "kind of mind-boggled" by the New York Democrat's aggressive response.
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"Telling the truth gets you attacked in this country?" she said. "I mean, that's not the American way."
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The liberal firebrand also went on to accuse Mace of trying to "swindle working people" for campaign donations while still courting corporate PAC money. "Peak scam artistry," Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
In Mace's fundraising email to supporters, she doubled down that Ocasio-Cortez was embellishing the level of danger she faced on Jan. 6, writing, "[U]nlike AOC, I deal in facts, not fiction, and the fact is: She was safe in her office."