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.

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    Dear The guardian. The word you are looking for is “Fabricating”. One would think that journalists would be proficient in the language they report in. But maybe that’s just me expecting unrealistic standards.

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      Journalist often target their content to people with a low reading age. Some tabloids in the UK target their content for someone of a reading age of 7. Even the financial times a high brow economic paper targets a reading age of 12.

      It’s likely the journalist made a conscious decision to not say fabricate, as that would restrict the amount of people that could comprehend the headline.

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        I’ll take your word for it. So, in short, I am in fact expecting an unrealistic standard. Complaining about shit like this makes me feel like an old grumpy man, and I’m not even 30 yet