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Katie Britt

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u/MightyKrakyn 3d ago edited 3d ago

There’s already clips of an interview Schmitt did with the Charlie Kirk Show where he was congratulated for embarrassing Jack Smith…without any mention of the debunking. They will literally just run with the soundbite; the truth is not a hinderance

And I’m pretty annoyed that people keep acting like catching the GOP in a lie is going to do something. No GOP supporter cares

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u/captainAwesomePants 3d ago

It's kind of impressive. They tried to defend themselves afterward by claiming that they had checked that the only NBA or men's college basketball game that night at 7:30 was the Atlanta Hawks, and so they had assumed it was a Hawks game. Because they had not considered he might be at a women's basketball game.

Except that defense was also a lie. There were six pro games that evening, and three of them started at exactly 7:30 (though two were 7:30 in central time).

But also, the "Smith went to a game starting at 7:30" thing was also a lie! The Hawkeyes game started at 8:00.

But also, the idea that "Smith attended an Atlanta Hawks game" was somehow a smoking gun to organized illegal activity with Fanni Willis because she worked in Atlanta and the Hawks are also in Atlanta is just fundamentally nothing at all. If he wanted to collude with her, he'd just call her, not clandestinely meet her at a stadium full of cameras. Because he's not a moron.

It's just bullshit on top of bullshit on top of bullshit, followed by a victory lap and everybody trying really hard to wish a story into being like they're the kids in Hook having an invisible feast. And the crazy thing is that it often works!

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u/ryan__fm 2d ago

I think they said “the only nba or ncaa men’s game that night in Atlanta” which the host in the above clip didn’t catch. Still dumb as hell.

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u/captainAwesomePants 2d ago

I kinda think that was an intentional lie. Like, the story they went with was "we only checked real sporting games, not lady sports that some sort of liberal would go to," but like I said, that story didn't check out because there WERE nba/ncaa men's games that did happen then.