Are those who doubt AOC's account of the Jan. 6 riot unaware that a tunnel connects the Capitol to the building containing her office?

This is not a big secret to anyone who's spent much time in the Capitol Hill complex.  You can walk from several of the buildings to other buildings using the tunnels.  Once the rioters and would-be insurrectionists had broken into the Capitol Building itself, therefore, they had potential access to the Cannon Building where AOC's office is located.  And she gets hate mail and death threats all the time.  She probably isn't lying about thinking her life was in danger on Jan. 6.

Whether it was politically smart for her to talk it afterwards is another question.  And maybe she over-dramatized her feelings for publicity; but quite possibly she didn't. Whether you hate AOC or love her, she's taken lots of risks in the things she's said as a politician, and there are people who've publicly expressed hatred against her because of it. I'm a fan, and I know many people aren't, but I think even her enemies should credit her for her guts and outspokenness.

AOC has been taking a lot of flak - as usual - on conservative social media for talking about feeling trauma over the Jan. 6 riot / attempted insurrection. A few minutes ago I answered a question in YA Politics that assumed she was lying about the whole thing, partly because her office isn't in the Capitol itself.  I'm trying to point out with this question that, however she did or didn't feel about the riot, she wasn't wrong to think that it could possibly have cost her her life.