The Republican-led House Oversight Committee is holding its first hearing Thursday in the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden – and Republicans on the committee have made a series of false and misleading claims, as well as some other claims that have left out critical context.

Below is a CNN fact check. This article will be updated as additional fact checks are completed.

  • IHeartBadCode
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    I think the most surreal part is that they’re wanting to impeach Biden on something that Trump very vocally did for Jared Kushner.

    And worse yet, they established no link between Hunter Biden’s actions and Joe Biden outside of, “Of course he knew! He’s Joe Biden’s son!”

    That was literally the maximum extent of connection they established. That they’re related to each other so obviously they’re all in on it.

    The level of projection from this whole affair, especially seeing how the government is about to shut down, really indicates that the GOP in general has lost the entire point of governance.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      They didn’t lose it, they actively threw it away. Ever since Newt Gingrich said that he wanted to get the government so small that he could drown it in a bathtub I knew that they were illegitimate and did not belong in government at all.  it’s only gotten worse. 

      Edit: I was incorrect, that is a Grover Norquist quote.

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        1 year ago

        That was Grover Norquist’s line. IIRC Gingrich was all about the Contract “With” America.

        • Flying Squid
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          51 year ago

          Contract on America was what I remember those of us who thought Gingrich was a threat called it.