Is This a Picture of Elise Stefanik Flipping the Bird at an Impeachment Inquiry? Another example of an attack on a politician based on a misleading 'middle finger' photograph.

Is This a Picture of Elise Stefanik Flipping the Bird at an Impeachment Inquiry? Nov. 16, 2019 Another example of an attack on a politician based on a misleading 'middle finger' photograph.

An altered image makes it look like Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik stuck up her middle finger in a House committee room at the end of a public impeachment inquiry hearing. She didn't.

I think everybody is waiting to see what Elise does,” said U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a Staten Island Republican.

CLAIM: Photo shows Rep. Elise Stefanik giving the middle finger following testimony by former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch in House Intelligence Committee impeachment hearings.

“It’s a big middle finger to those on the so-called progressive left and others in ... including former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee as U.S. ambassador to Israel and Rep. Elise Stefanik ...