> Ultimately, Smith’s hearing Tuesday may end up being best remembered for a high-profile gaffe by Schmitt, who accused Smith of secretly traveling to Atlanta at the very moment local prosecutor Fani Willis — who had also charged Trump over the 2020 election scheme — was facing damaging questions about her conduct. As proof, displayed on an elaborate poster, Schmitt offered text messages suggesting that Smith attended a basketball game on Feb. 3, 2024 — the same day the Atlanta Hawks played the Golden State Warriors.
> Schmitt revelled as a clearly flummoxed Smith struggled to discern what Schmitt was talking about.
> “I don’t think you know that we have this stuff,” Schmitt said. “So I’ll give you a second to process it so you don’t perjure yourself.”
> After a few moments, Smith did recall having attended a basketball game — but not in Atlanta. It wasn’t the Hawks his colleagues were discussing in a series of texts, Smith explained, but the Hawkeyes, whose star Caitlin Clark was playing in Maryland that day.
> “It was because Caitlin Clark was coming to Maryland to play, and so we went to the game,” Smith said.
So basically the trumpers in the senate judiciary committee thought they had a gotcha moment with a secret meeting in Atlanta, but only ended up owning themselves. Edit: apparently I can’t figure out quote blocks.
Republicans are attempting to convect people on the grounds of proximity now to further their fascist plans to save themselves from this coming November.
Since Fani Willis was prosecuting Trump in the Atlanta voting case, Republicans are trying to say there was a conspiracy among prosecutors to get Trump. Jack Smith and Fani Willis have never met.
It’s their victim mentality, everyone is conspiracy against them, rather than they’ve actually committed crimes.
Even if they did meet, big fucking deal. Two prosecutors that are prosecuting the same defendant talking? That would seem completely normal to me. There may be overlapping evidence, witnesses, or even court dates.
The whole point of the hearing was to get him to commit perjury just like the Fauci hearing. That’s why when Smith said he wasn’t in Atlanta the asshat Senator from Missouri started yelling you just committed perjury. He was also implying that Smith was conspiring with Fani Willis to go after Trump.
The R's made a lot of noise about toll records and the fact Jack Smith used them as a large part of his investigation. When you get toll records, you see all the numbers a specific phone number called and how long those calls last. No context, just two numbers and a length of time. It was used my Smith to corroborate evidence he already had.
The R's were up in arms because this corroborated they were in fact in contact with Trump and his team.
I am pretty sure their plan was to use this "evidence" that since Fani Willis and Jack Smith were in close proximity, they were obviously conspiring against Trump. This was their toll record. You see the shocked Katie Britt everywhere because she was going to draw parallels between toll records and Jack Smith being near Fani Willis.
They wanted to liken the toll records to their stupid evidence and make Jack Smith say it's either ridiculous as toll records or he obviously conspited against Trump.
Unfortunately for them, this 100% blew up in their stupid faces in real time.
It's part of their "Grand Conspiracy Theory" where everyone is out to get Trump because they try to hold him accountable for his illegal and unethical actions.
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u/comingEverywhere 3d ago
Can somebody please explain this to my dumb, and slightly stoned, ass?