Video shows U.S. Rep. Doug Collins exploding “with rage after Pelosi admits dirty ‘squad’ plan for Trump impeachment.”
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No, this video doesn’t show a Republican lawmaker confronting U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi
Don’t butter your popcorn just yet — a description of a video in a recent Facebook post isn’t at all what it’s billed to be.
"Watch D.oug Collins Explodes with RAGE after Pelosi admits DIRTY 'squad' plan for Trump impeachment," reads the description of a video in the May 2 post.
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The clip, from Dec. 9, 2019, shows then-U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., and then-Democratic counsel Daniel Goldman during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
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Collins, who was the committee’s ranking member, was questioning Goldman as part of the impeachment inquiry into then-President Donald Trump.
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Collins didn’t mention Pelosi — who wasn’t even at the hearing — or "The Squad," a nickname for a group of four representatives including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
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Facebook post, May 2, 2023
PBS NewsHour, WATCH: Rep. Doug Collins’ full questioning of committee lawyers | Trump's first impeachment, Dec. 9, 2019
CNN, Here are the 4 congresswomen known as ‘The Squad’ targeted by Trump’s racist tweets, July 16, 2019
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No, this video doesn’t show a Republican lawmaker confronting U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi
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