Viral Posts Distort Impeachment Inquiry Rules
by Angelo Fichera
Nov 01, 2019
4 minutes
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Facebook posts purport to outline “the rules” of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, but they distort the facts in doing so.
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The House voted Oct. 31 to approve a resolution further advancing the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, and social media claims immediately began to distort the facts about the process.
Some , by thousands of Facebook users, purport to state “the rules” of the impeachment inquiry proceedings — likening the U.S. to the “USSR.” But two of the three “rules” distort the facts. One of them — about what can and can’t be asked of witnesses — is false, and another (that no “involvement” by Trump’s counsel
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