Trump posted a False Quote of Republican Doug Collins on Twitter

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The U.S President Donald Trump has posted a false quote on Twitter attempting to defend himself from impeachment as the U.S House of Representatives has started the debate on 2 articles against him ahead of a historic vote on Wednesday morning. The president appeared to magnify a quote from Doug Collins he heard while watching Fox News. Collins is the ranking Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee and the support of Trump. He went on the show to undermine the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry. Trump quoted Collins as saying on Fox News, tagging both the Republican congressman and the conservative TV outlet. Trump quoted, “They just wanted to get at the President. They couldn’t find any crimes so they did a vague abuse of power and abuse of Congress, which every administration from the beginning has done”.

But, the original quote Collins said on live television says, “They just simply wanted to get at the president. So they said, at the end of the day, we can’t form any crimes, we’re going to do this vague abuse of power, and while we’re at it, let’s just throw in an obstruction of Congress, because we didn’t get our way”. It is still unclear whether the president was purposefully misquoting his Republican ally. Moreover, the false quote supposedly included commentary from Fox News host Steve Doocy, who falsely claimed during the interview with Collins that “pretty much every administration of our lifetime” refused to “offer up witnesses and documents” during congressional investigations.

The Republican ranking member didn’t describe the obstruction of Congress charges against Trump (as something “every administration from the beginning has done”) at any point during the interview. The false quote from the President was first pointed out by Washington Post reporter Aaron Blake.

https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1207318536839946241

It is noteworthy that Trump has been ramping up his tweets attacking House Democrats following the historic impeachment proceedings against him over his dealings with Ukraine. The U.S President is alleged to demanding political investigations from his Ukrainian counterpart into his 2020 political rival, Joe Biden, and his son Hunter. The president broke his own record recently in posting the most tweets during a single day since assuming the Oval Office.