When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Chaya Raichik, the creator of the famous TikTok parody show Libs of TikTok, ran into each other on Thursday, tempers rose.
In a series of tweets, Raichik explained how, after her first attempt to meet with Ocasio-Cortez last week failed, she went back to the Capitol with the help of The Heritage Foundation to file an official protest. When she ran into her, she had just given the representative a copy of the report in person.
She ran into Raichik in the hallway and told him, “I just brought an ethics complaint to your office because you lied about me at a committee hearing.”
“Uh-huh. Oh hi! AOC replied, “Nope, I didn’t do that.”
Raichik said, “I’ve never been the cause of a bomb threat.”
Ocasio-Cortez said as she turned to leave, “You hate trans people a lot, and I don’t want to be in the same room with you ever again.” “Appreciate it!”
During a congressional meeting, the New York congressman lied about Raichik when she said that medical workers had been harassed and threatened with death because of Raichik’s outspoken opposition to gender transition treatments for children, Raichik says.
In February, Ocasio-Cortez said at a meeting that a bomb threat at Boston Children’s Hospital was caused by a lie told by Raichik and spread by her fans.
Raichik tried to talk to Ocasio-Cortez in person, but when she went to her office, a staff member told her that the representative was out. A letter telling her not to “lie about American citizens” was taped to the door.
I went to her office to calm down and tell her what had happened. “I don’t know if she was in the office or not, but I know she ran away,” she told Fox News host Tucker Carlson later. As a U.S. citizen, I don’t like having my reputation ruined in front of so many people, so I decided to challenge her.