“Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez insisted Wednesday that she was not pretending to be in handcuffs when she put her arms behind her back after being arrested a day earlier at a pro-abortion demonstration outside the Supreme Court.

““No faking here,” the New York Democrat wrote in a Tweet responding to Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC).

““Putting your hands behind your back is a best practice while detained, handcuffed or not, to avoid escalating charges like resisting arrest,” added AOC, who made no mention of the fact that she gave a raised-fist salute to supporters without consequence.

“In the initial tweet, Mace had accused Ocasio-Cortez of making her arrest “performative art.”

““So of course @AOC fakes being in handcuffs,” the Republican posted. “Performance, not policy, is the name of the game up here.””

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