https://thehill.com/homenews/4228707-ocasio-cortez-slams-republicans-for-using-fabricated-image-in-biden-hearing/
Ocasio-Cortez slams Republicans for using ‘fabricated image’ in Biden hearing
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N. Y.) slammed Republicans for using a “fabricated image” in the first impeachment inquiry hearing into President Biden.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) launched an impeachment inquiry into Biden after Republicans alleged the president and his son, Hunter Biden, profited from foreign business deals. The House Oversight and Accountability Committee held its first hearing Thursday.
During the hearing Ocasio-Cortez sat next to a computer screen that showed a clock, ticking down the seconds until the federal funding deadline.
The fabricated image Ocasio-Cortez referenced was a screenshot of a text message presented earlier in Thursday’s hearing introduced by Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), she said.
“Earlier today, one of our colleagues, the gentleman from Florida, presented up on the screen something that appeared to be a screenshot of a text message containing or insinuating an explosive allegation,” Ocasio-Cortez said during the hearing. “That screenshot of what appeared to be a text message was a fabricated image.”
“I don’t know where it came from. I don’t know if it was the staff of the committee, but it was not the direct screenshot from that phone,” she added.
The New York congresswoman said the fabricated image excluded “critical context that changed the underlying meaning and allegation.”
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