Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez often complains about journalists — except when she’s pretending to be one.

AOC admitted to getting access to press passes at the Dakota Access pipeline protests at Standing Rock Indian Reservation in a 2016 Facebook Live video.

A Facebook user asked her about what media had been present.

“We tried to get press passes and at the time they wouldn’t give them to us,” AOC’s friend, actress Maria Swisher, says on tape.

That didn’t stop the then-bartender.

“We had access to press passes. Like we had media level. We were recognized as media. Yeah,” Ocasio-Cortez clarifies. “We were the only media there. No CNN, no Fox News, nothing.”

AOC and company traveled to Standing Rock at the height of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and set up a GoFundMe, raising more than $1,000.

Before arriving at the protest site, they faced a “tense” situation when AOC was pulled over and surrounded by law enforcement near a closed road in Bismarck.

In her own retelling in a Facebook Live video, Ocasio-Cortez recounted cops toting semi-automatic weapons demanding to know what their business was in the area.

“We’re surrounded by men in bulletproof vests and semi-automatic weapons looking into the car,” she says. “And because I’m just a bad liar, I don’t like to lie, I just said, ‘We’re going to the reservation.'”

The lead officer explained how the road they were on was closed and normally would merit a citation and $250 fine, particularly after the group admitted they had seen the “road closed” signs along the way.

“He’s like, you know, that’s a violation like that, you have intentionally violated the law. And I was like, ‘Sir, I’m you know, I’m very, very, extremely sorry,'” AOC said. “Someone’s taking a photo of our license plate with their personal cell phone while they’re in armor and while they have like a semiautomatic murder weapon.”

The cops ultimately let them off with a warning and provided the group with pre-printed instructions for how to legally arrive at the reservation.

Ocasio-Cortez declared the bust a “honeypot,” misusing the term for employing sex to trap and blackmail a target.

Additional reporting by Hannah Milic

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