Candace Owens Faces Backlash After Saying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘Faked Her Own Attempted Murder’

Conservative author and pundit Candace Owens found herself being shut down on social media after she accused Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of trying to play up the drama from the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and said Ocasio-Cortez had tried to “fake her own attempted murder.”

Ocasio-Cortez has faced backlash of her own on social media in recent days after she did an Instagram Live video where she discussed the trauma of the riots on Jan. 6, where then-President Donald Trump’s supporters breached the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral victory. She talked about barricading herself in her office as insurrectionists threatened to storm the building.

Since her video went public, others have stated that she was dramatizing the event and hadn’t even been in the main building at the time because her office was in the Cannon building, and she has defended herself from the attacks, which led to her being compared to actor Jussie Smollett.

Owens took to Twitter to accuse Ocasio-Cortez of faking the entire situation and manipulating it to her benefit, stating it was something she had also previously done when attending a protest against the Trump administration’s family separations at the border before her election and staging a photoshoot to mimic one by Ocasio-Cortez.

However, Owens was the one who was then criticized for her post, as others who were present at the same event produced other images and video to back up that she hadn’t faked the incident, while others on social media expressed dismay over Owens and the way she handled herself over a number of situations.

Owens previously came under fire when she criticized singer-actor Harry Styles for his Vogue photoshoot where he wore a dress. Ocasio-Cortez also jumped in to defend Styles.