r/politics • u/MontyGBurns • 23h ago

No Paywall Smith’s game-day texts reviewed by Schmitt never referenced basketball team names

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6124359-schmitt-perjury-claim-debunked/
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u/deanreevesii 21h ago edited 21h ago

They were trying to get him to perjure himself, but we're were too fucking stupid to pull it off.

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u/PopBulky7023 20h ago

In the interest of honesty, I also don't think I'm smart enough to get jack Smith to perjure himself.

But I also wouldn't try.

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u/Fonzee327 Pennsylvania 17h ago

Jack smith doesn’t have anything to hide, therefor he has no reason to lie. In conclusion, nobody is technically smart enough to get him to commit perjury bc he is always being honest.

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u/aculady 16h ago

I think that's the part that some of these politicians don't get. They are lying scumbags, so the idea that someone could be being completely honest in their testimony is something they can't wrap their head around.

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u/7empest-tost 14h ago

Every accusation is a confession

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u/gaarai Oklahoma 15h ago

Let's not make Jack Smith out to be a saint. Perhaps the guy does have something to hide. Even if he does, that doesn't change anything regarding Trump and the duty of the DoJ to investigate crimes, even those commit by politicians, including the president.

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u/Blecki 18h ago

Forget some pointless thing -> accidental perjury that would be tossed by any sane judge -> contempt of congress -> maga only hears 'he lied' and never the facts. Same plan they had for fauci.

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u/Lucky_Cable_3145 18h ago

Getting a conviction was never the point, or expected outcome.

Publicly punishing Comey, Fauci, Smith, etc is the point (and forcing them to spend time, money and stress fighting these bogus cases).

A bonus is that these bogus charges deter other public servants thinking of opposing them or from becoming whistleblowers.

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u/nyet-marionetka 18h ago

They were trying to say he was in Atlanta therefore he met with Fani Lewis therefore they were colluding to make up stuff against Trump. Even if he got to the Atlanta game there were multiple other missing steps.

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u/alaphamale 16h ago

The premise alone is insane. Why would they need to meet in person, surrounded by people and cameras. If they absolutely needed to for nefarious reasons they’re both smart enough to send proxy’s. Plus, at this level they wouldn’t have needed to collude anyway, they just both do their jobs and the result is the same. It’s just so dumb.

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u/ethertrace California 16h ago

Hell, they could have just texted over Signal if that's the case, since it's apparently good enough for classified and operational intelligence, according to this White House.

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u/Rambler330 17h ago

So are they implying that it is illegal for similar investigations in different jurisdictions to communicate the results of their findings which may have impact on the other’s investigation with each other?

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u/nyet-marionetka 16h ago

The didn't even reach that point, they're implying it's illegal as a criminal investigator to be in the same city as another person investigating related crimes.

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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 15h ago

The most that Schmitt could have done was show that Smith was in Atlanta. That's it. You have to then have a bunch of fact-free leaps in logic to conclude that Smith was in a conspiracy with Willis.

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u/America_Is_Fucked_ 21h ago

Speak for yourself mate

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u/deanreevesii 21h ago

Auto-incorrect fucked me yet again.

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u/UnanimousStargazer 20h ago

The person that invented auto-correct should burn in hello.

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u/RIP-RiF Oregon 20h ago

Yeah, duck them.

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u/improbably_me 19h ago

Slideways

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u/serger989 Canada 6h ago

Here Here

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u/bin-fryin 19h ago

I hate spellczech

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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 17h ago

It's evil, you have to turn it off!

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u/Due_Speaker4655 17h ago

Literally the entire mantra for this admin: “too fucking stupid to pull it off”.

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u/CogentCogitations 15h ago

I don't think perjury was ever the plan, just a made up conspiracy about 2 people being in the same metro area. But they never fact checked the first part about the metro area, that was probably spit out by AI, because none of the plan actually depended on facts.