AOC Says She Would Not Be ‘Surprised’ if Trump Put Her in Jail if He Wins Again

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is expressing fears should be wind up behind bars.

The New York congresswoman sat down for an interview with New York Magazine’s Kara Swisher and was asked, “What happens to you if 👤Donald Trump wins? What do you do? What’s your first move?”

“I mean, it sounds nuts, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy threw me in jail,” Ocasio-Cortez responded.

Swisher asked, “Really?”

“He’s out of his mind. I mean, he did his whole first campaign around lock her up. This is his motto,” the progressive star answered.

Swisher acknowledged, “Oh, he didn’t say that. He said, he didn’t say that.”

“I take him at his word. I take him at his word. I take him at his word when he says that he’s going to round up people. I take him at his word when he threatens journalists, I take him at his word, I feel like what we saw in his first presidency was an amuse-bouche to what his intentions are,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “He has learned from his mistakes of appointing professionals, and he will not make that mistake next time.”

Ocasio-Cortez was not the only public figure to express concern about locked away somewhere.

On Monday, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow had CNN’s media reporter on her show who noted