Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik went to the Capitol on Thursday to file an ethics complaint against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — and things quickly got testy when the two bumped into each other.
Raichik explained in a series of tweets that she had first gone to the Capitol last week to speak with Ocasio-Cortez directly — but when that failed, she went back to file an official complaint with help from conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. After delivering a copy of the complaint personally, she happened to run into the congresswoman.
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BREAKING: I served @AOC with an ethics complaint after she lied about me in a committee hearing. AOC wasn’t in her office but then I bumped into her as I was leaving the Capitol!
Watch what happens: pic.twitter.com/Lhrrzo1w8Q
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 30, 2023
Last week I attempted to talk with AOC about using her position of power to lie about an American citizen. She refused to meet so I was forced to go to the next step and file an ethics complaint. Stop cowering @AOC! https://t.co/3lvwqL7JqU
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 30, 2023
When Raichik happened upon her in the hallway, she explained that she had “just delivered an ethics complaint to your office because you lied about me in a committee hearing.”
“Uh-huh. Oh hi! Yeah no, I actually didn’t,” AOC objected.
“I never inspired a bomb threat,” Raichik insisted.
“You’re actually super transphobic and I never want to share a space with you!” Ocasio-Cortez continued, turning on her heel and walking away. “Thank you!”
Raichik said that she had initially tried to meet with AOC last week to confront her in person, alleging that the New York congresswoman had lied about her during a congressional hearing — when she claimed that Raichik’s vocal opposition to gender transition procedures for children had resulted in harassment and threats against medical professionals.
During a February hearing, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Raichik had posted a lie that her followers circulated, which Ocasio-Cortez said had then inspired “real life harassment and ultimately a bomb threat” to Boston Children’s Hospital.
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When Raichik arrived at Ocasio-Cortez’s office to confront her, she was told by a staffer that the congresswoman was not in. She left a post-it note on the door telling her not to “lie about American citizens.”
“I absolutely had no expectations for her to own up to it. I went to her office, and I was ready to sit down with her and get to the bottom of this and explain it. And I don’t know if she was in the office or not, but I know she cowered away,” she told Fox News host Tucker Carlson later. “I don’t think she would ever face me or ever have a discussion about it. But I as an American citizen — I don’t appreciate being defamed in front of millions of people. So I wanted to confront her, and she cowered.”