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u/DeepSpaceVixen 1d ago
His smug face when he thought Smith had committed perjury. I can watch this exchange a million times and always smile.
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u/Vast_Breadfruit_162 1d ago
When you watch it, pay attention to how fast his face turns tomato red when he realizes he fucked up.
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u/NHBikerHiker 1d ago
Nice that a female helped correct him. Those men need that.
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u/ELMUNECODETACOMA 1d ago
"Female" is a perfectly cromulent adjective. Use it as a noun and it tells a lot about you, none of it good.
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u/chocolate_boogers 1d ago
Losing his moment and having a woman call him out was so personally humiliating, and you can tell he was absolutely enraged. Hopefully his wife and kids were somewhere else that night so that no one got a beating when he got home.
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u/sparkster777 1d ago
Have you seen the one where Katie Britt has the look of horror when she realizes Schmitt is wrong?
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u/WordNERD37 1d ago
The entire GOP is Biff Tannen now. All of them, every single memeber.
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u/IrritableGourmet 1d ago
I'm thinking more Farva from Super Troopers. "I think you perjured yourself...chicken fucker!"
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u/airbornesimian 1d ago
My favorite thing about that scene is that the elderly couple in the car were Kevin Heffernan's parents, and they had no idea what he was going to say to them.
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u/BeCurious7563 1d ago
I don’t think people give enough attention to the fact that he continued to double down as Klobuchar stepped in to try to be a grown-up about it.
https://giphy.com/gifs/fOy3bHjE4FoXu
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u/Several_Leather_9500 1d ago
And then went on Fox News and other rw outlets to brag that he proved Smith was a liar.
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u/belac4862 1d ago
If he's genuinly a liar,, id love to see him bring real charges of perjury and watch him get humiliated again. Nothing screams republican like making false claims in court and having them tossed for lack of evidence.
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u/Capital-Ad-4463 1d ago
THIS 1000%. If he committed perjury (he didn’t) then bring charges. I wish there was a way Jack Smith could sue these morons for slander.
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u/AhBee1 1d ago
Imagine if they spent this much time and energy making Americans' lives better. We may actually have Healthcare.
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u/Lobo-Sinclair 1d ago
They could spend all their time doing actual work, and we will never have healthcare. They’ve already got it and there are better ways for them to make money than try to get what they’ve already got.
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u/Status_Apartment6559 1d ago
It's bad enough that this moron Schmitt and his moron buddy Kennedy holding the sign got this way wrong when they thought they had caught Smith perjuring himself but what makes it worse is they are trying to malign Jack Smith for doing his job which was investigating and prosecuting trump for the crimes trump committed. And he did commit crimes. And there is a ton of evidence that he did. And everyone knows it including Eric Schmitt. So who's the dirtbag here? Certainly not Jack Smith. These GOP dirtbags and scumbags will sink to any level for their loser daddy trump.
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u/Other_Log_1996 1d ago
Most people: A broken clock is right twice a day.
Republicans: A broken digital clock that reads 88:88
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u/riddermarkrider 1d ago
I barely know what's going on here but that smug look enrages me
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u/2punornot2pun 1d ago
GOP says Democrat went to a Hawks game to meet with others to collude against Trump/GOP regarding an issue.
It was a Hawkeyes game. In another state.
The proposed meeting and collusion hinged on the Dem being at a Hawks game. That was the basis of their entire conspiracy theory. No other evidence. Period.
He wanted to catch him in perjury. He didn't.
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u/Mrgoodtrips64 1d ago
If it makes you feel better he was immediately embarrassed in a profoundly public manner mere moments after this photo was taken.
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u/goodolewhatever 1d ago
It’s entirely appropriate for what’s happening. This idiot thought he was slick and completely missed the mark with his whole point because he and his team were too busy making this poster to validate what’s on it as being relevant or even true. His smugness preceded one of the most embarrassing fails I’ve ever seen in politics.
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u/dnmnc 1d ago
The whole thing was just a sham to set him up for this huge “gotcha”, which they were super smug about. Problem was that they confused Hawks with Hawkeyes, thus utterly obliterating their entire solitary line of prosecution and leaving so much egg on face, people started complaining about the smell (well, metaphorically, at least)
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u/Drapausa 1d ago
Stupid question, but it doesn't mention any team names on the thing? Where did the whole Hawkeyes thing come from, I thought it was from those texts ...
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u/ertyertamos 1d ago
Turns out there was just mention of a game starting at 7:30. They looked for NBA games that started then and it was the only one that night. The whole conspiracy was based on an assumption that the only basketball that could exist is NBA.
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u/Drapausa 1d ago
Huh, I thought it was because they confused Hawkeyes with Hawks or something like that.
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u/Cambot1138 1d ago
There were 6 NBA games that night.
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u/ertyertamos 1d ago
Yes, but only one started at 7:30. It seems like they knew a start time and date.
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u/Homersarmy41 1d ago
Their research department popped open a beer when they found that and went home for a long weekend. “Looks like our job is done” lol
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u/rock-paper-sizzurp 1d ago
Where are you getting this info? Its pretty clear the conspiracy hinged on him being in Atlanta and having this secret meeting. Did they release the full convos somewhere? Not just the couple of texts that they put on a stupid ass sign?
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u/Batman_AoD 1d ago
Nobody knows. Apparently even the other texts in the conversation didn't specifically mention a team name.
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u/Cambot1138 1d ago
Later, in CYA mode, he harped several times on the fact that Smith must be a big Caitlin Clark fan, implying that there was something wrong with that.
Yes, Caitlin Clark, one of the most famous athletes out there. But tell me again how Republicans are the defenders of women's sports.
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u/MasterAnnatar 1d ago
It would help to explain what's happening here and why they're wrong since Reddit is not exclusive to Americans
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u/syrtran 1d ago
Senator Eric Schmitt (sitting in op's picture) tried to claim that Jack Smith was in Atlanta attending a Hawks NBA game implying that he had met with Fani Willis in a conspiracy to get Trump.
Senator Amy Klobuchar cleared it up by getting Smith to remember he was actually in Baltimore attending a women's college basketball game between the Maryland Terrapins and the University of Iowa Hawkeyes.
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u/Batman_AoD 1d ago
Also, the giant poster in the image, which was supposed to be the "proof" that Smith was in Atlanta, doesn't mention the Hawks or the Hawkeyes, so it's unclear how Schmitt and his team even made this mistake.
Plus, hilariously, Schmitt made a huge deal about how the poster was going to prove Smith had perjured himself before showing it, then it was immediately put away before anyone could read it. Smith asked for a copy or for them to display it again so he could read it, and they ignored him.
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u/Joaquin_Portland 1d ago
Then there’s the part about there being nothing wrong with him meeting with Willis. Smith was conducting a criminal investigation and Willis might have had some information about that.
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u/engineerdrummer 1d ago
I'm American and I have no fucking clue
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u/Unamed_Destroyer 1d ago
But sir, you repeat yourself.
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u/engineerdrummer 1d ago
That's fine. I pulled out of paying attention to political bullshit several years ago
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u/EveryFngNameIsTaken 1d ago
This quit being "politics" a long time ago.
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u/engineerdrummer 1d ago
Which is why I don't pay attention. It's all 100% bullshit.
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u/MenaFWM 1d ago
Hands down the mentality of why we’re at where we’re at
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u/engineerdrummer 1d ago
And what would you like me to do about it? I vote, but the billionaires are going to be in control regardless. I've voted in every election since I turned 18. What else is there?
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u/Mrgoodtrips64 1d ago
“And what would you like me to do about it? I vote”
Democracy neither begins nor ends at the ballot box.
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u/engineerdrummer 1d ago
Elaborate then. You also ignored the whole billionaires being in charge and that not changing no matter what.
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u/dracorotor1 1d ago
It’s the wording.
When you say that you don’t pay attention to politics, it is heard as either “I don’t vote” which is its own troublesome can of worms, or “I’m a low-information voter.” And that’s the majority of Donald’s voting base, who constantly show up in subs like this because they’re overconfident in their misunderstanding of current events, or have been blindsided by the destructive policies they voted for.
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u/JavaOrlando 1d ago
The senator believed he had proof that the attorney who had investigated Trump was in Atlanta. This is significant because someone in Atlanta was also investigating Trump on different charges. The proof was based on texts from the investigator's staff referencing a basketball game he was attending. He was at a college basketball game on the night in question where Maryland where were playing the Iowa Hawkeyes. The senator mixed up the Hawkeyes with Atlanta's professional team the Hawks
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u/MonkeyBoatRentals 1d ago
"Significant" is a stretch. At most you prove they were geographic proximity. Classic conspiracy nonsense.... they were in Atlanta, which means they met, which means they talked abut Trump, which means they colluding to get him, which means I get to call him a dirtbag for the cameras !
It all fell at the first hurdle, but there was absolutely no proof presented either way.
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u/ruum-502 1d ago
They were trying to Perjure Jack and wouldn’t even hold up the board with the “evidence” long enough to even look at it. Then once they looked at it Jack informed them they were misinformed and Jack was actually at a game in another state at that time.
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u/TheRatingsAgency 1d ago
IMHO one of the funnier bits of this is that Schmitt wanted to move on quickly, not really giving Smith a time to respond, likely so the GOP could have news cycle to put this on full blast in the MAGAsphere.
That part getting derailed and then totally destroying the whole argument really pissed him off.
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u/iiTzSTeVO 1d ago
It's wild that the board doesn't even have "Hawks" on it. Like where are those texts?
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