AOC Busts GOP Rep Cold ‘Fabricating’ Hunter Biden Evidence Live During Impeachment Hearing
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) busted Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) cold “fabricating” Hunter Biden evidence at the first impeachment inquiry hearing against President Joe Biden.
On Thursday, the GOP-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee held the first hearing of a much-derided (by liberals and even some conservatives) impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
For example, Rep. Donalds introduced a text message as he questioned witnesses and claimed it had to do with Hunter Biden’s “business dealings.”
This is a fun one. Ladies and gentlemen, this one is from 2018. This is about four months before Joe Biden launched his campaign for president of the United States. December 2018. The highlight is this is a text message between Jim Biden and Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden was in a bad way, by the way. He was he was really strung out. He lost a bunch of money. He needed help.
Jim Biden says “this can work. You need a safe harbor. I can work with your father alone. It’ll probably take several months,” and everybody can read the text.
Miss O’Connor, Mr. Dubinsky, if you saw a text message like this between the president’s brother and the president’s son, wouldn’t you be concerned about them trying to give plausible deniability for the president of the United States to not have any knowledge of said business dealings?
But not long after that, AOC took a minute to fill in the context of the actual text exchange, and accuse Donalds of using a “fabricated image” that omitted crucial context:
Earlier today, one of our colleagues, a gentleman from Florida, presented up on the screen something that looked, appeared to be, a screenshot of a text message containing or insinuating an explosive allegation.
That screenshot of what appeared to be a text message was a fabricated image. It 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 actual direct screenshot from that phone. And in fact, I would like to submit to the committee the actual full context from as, from the Ziegler Affiant affidavit. Number one, exhibit 402, of the full text of that exchange. Do I have permission from the chair? (no objection) Importantly. What was brought out from that fabricated image excluded critical context that changed the underlying meaning and allegation that was presented up on that screen by this committee and by members of this committee. Now, they are well within their right to do that. Because they are covered by the speech and debate clause.
This was not submitted by a material or fact witness under oath. That was not submitted by material or fact witness under oath. The impeachment inquiry. Any impeachment inquiry, regardless of party, is an extremely serious matter.
In the actual text exchange, Hunter Biden complains he has no money to pay personal expenses, and talks about arranging work “at Penn” and moving nearer to James Biden. He complains his parents won’t foot his alimony payments. That’s the message James Biden was responding to in the mock-up Donalds presented.
Watch above via Fox News.
