berg80
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Not an opinion piece as evidenced by the granular way they fact check the Repub's false assertions.An opinion piece from CNN āsums things upā in the usual distorted and dishonest fashion.
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Facts First: Donalds didnāt invent the James Biden text message, but Ocasio-Cortez was correct that Donalds left out critical context ā specifically, context that showed there was no sign that the purported text exchange between James Biden and Hunter Biden was about business dealings. The information released by House Republicans this week appeared to show that James Bidenās purported text about getting āhelpā from Joe Biden came in direct response to a purported Hunter Biden text saying he could not afford alimony, school tuition for his children, food and gas āw/o [without] Dad.ā Donalds did not display this purported Hunter Biden text at the Thursday hearing.
In other words, when James Biden purportedly mentioned the possibility of several months of help from Joe Biden, he gave no indication he was referring to some sort of business transaction, much less the foreign transactions that House Republicans have been focused on in their investigations into the president. But Donalds didnāt make that clear.
With that said, Ocasio-Cortez herself could have been clearer about what she meant when she claimed the image Donalds showed was āfabricated.ā
The contents of the purported James Biden text Donalds displayed were not made up, according to the IRS whistleblowers. What appeared to be novel was the graphic Donalds used; he showed the text in a form that made it look like a screenshot from an iPhone text conversation, with white words over a blue background bubble. The House Republican spreadsheet that the words were taken from did not include any such graphics, and, again, it did include the preceding purported Hunter Biden message that Donalds didnāt show.