Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Republicans fabricated evidence in Biden impeachment inquiry – video

Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused Republicans of fabricating evidence in the first hearing of Biden's impeachment inquiry on Thursday. Ocasio-Cortez said: 'Earlier today, one of our colleagues, the 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'

In a blistering attack on the GOP-led inquiry Ocasio-Cortez continued: 'This is an embarrassment. An embarrassment to the time and people of this country'

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