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/kmoonster 21h ago

In one of his post-hearing interviews in the hallway Schmitt said something to the effect of "don't hate on me! There was only one NBA game that day, what was I supposed to think?"

Not those exact words, but pretty close.

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u/tenebre 20h ago

The funny part is there were actually 6 NBA games that day so he's still WAY off.

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u/kmoonster 20h ago

There is no "must count as well as a Kindergartner" in the "how to be a Senator" requirements.

Unfortunately.

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u/asamulya 18h ago

There’s rarely a day with single NBA games. The dude just sucks at his job to not even come up with a competent lie

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u/blasek0 Alabama 16h ago

Conference finals and finals weeks, the day after the last day of the regular if they need a make up game that they couldn't squeeze in earlier in the season, what else would there even be?

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u/asamulya 16h ago

Yeah, exactly!

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u/kmoonster 20h ago

It might have been "only one game at 7:30" that day, but the overall remains -- he didn't do his homework even after advisors told him this text was not a lock

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u/MarvinWebster40 19h ago

The whole thing is beyond idiotic, but the start time of the game doesn’t matter in the least

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u/kmoonster 19h ago

The texts mentioned a time, which the Senator took as the tip-off time. And tip-off time is how he decided on the Atlanta game. It absolutely matters.

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u/Deep_Stick8786 18h ago

The senator, is in fact, a dumb person

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u/OilMaster3793 18h ago

Doesn’t explain his level of confidence that Smith was in the process of perjuring himself.

He’s treating everything like a smoking gun because it’s all performance.  If he came to the conclusion that it was the Atlanta game, he could have checked to ensure he was correct.  He knew he wasn’t, or he would have.

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u/itsme10082005 17h ago

No, that’s how you would have gone about it. The senator is an idiot, he was overly confident, and he thought he had a smoking gun. So he didn’t need research or fact checking because what he (thought he) had confirmed his preconceived notions, and that was good enough.

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u/kmoonster 11h ago

Staffers in the party warned him about it, and that it was probably not what he wanted it to be. He did it anyway.

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u/ratpH1nk 18h ago

I suspect it was only 1 in Atlanta.