New York Democrat gets each witness in impeachment inquiry to admit they have no firsthand evidence of a crime committed

Questioning witnesses in the first impeachment hearing staged by House Republicans, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez prompted each to say they were not presenting “firsthand witness accounts” of crimes committed by Joe Biden.

The New York Democrat also accused Republicans of fabricating supposed evidence of corruption involving the president and his surviving son, Hunter Biden.

Republicans on the House oversight committee called three witnesses, Democrats one.

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
    54·
    1 year ago

    I mean, the stupid thing is that they’re not even bothering to fabricate evidence, they’re just fabricating the entire accusation and not presenting any evidence at all. Their first witness even said point blank that there’s no reason to be doing any of this; so as usual, not only are they criminally partisan, but they’re also really bad at it.

    • jballsEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Except for, you know, the fake screenshot of a text message explicitly mentioned in the article.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know, does that count? The text message actually happened, the fakery was just putting it into a screenshot. The context was all bogus, of course, as AOC correctly pointed out; but the text itself wasn’t fabricated per se.