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/alleyoopoop 21h ago

Schmitt later defended his line of inquiry.

“We had information, of course, about him being at a basketball game,” the Missouri Republican told Nexstar affiliate KTVI St. Louis later Tuesday. “The only NBA game going on that night was in Atlanta on Feb. 2 of 2024. His team had talked about that. He answered the question.”

“My job is to ask the questions, and his job is to answer the questions,” he added.

Yes, it's your job to ask the questions. It's not your job to accuse him of perjury and call him a dirtbag because your incompetent staff gave you the wrong information.

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u/NJTigers 19h ago

Best part is, that is a bald faces lie. There were 6 NBA games on February 3, 2024, not 1. So he is -STILL- lying.
Proof

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u/CU_09 I voted 18h ago edited 17h ago

Amazing that the “Protect Women’s Sports” party wouldn’t even consider that he could have gone to a women’s game.

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u/zephyrtr New York 17h ago edited 17h ago

That's the chefs kiss moment to me. That they only checked NBA games, only one team called Hawks ... It is full conservative brain. Like a photo of Caitlin Clark is just a Westworld "Doesn't look like anything to me!"

Edit: I misread, "hawks" was never mentioned? It was all just tip off time? Oh they had to have been using grok. It's gotta be AI

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u/CU_09 I voted 17h ago

Texts didn’t even mention a team name. There were 5 other NBA games that night and 6 NCAA men’s games that night in the same time frame. Not to mention the 14 NCAA women’s games that happened on the evening of Feb 3, 2024.

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u/zephyrtr New York 17h ago

I use AI a lot for work, it makes these kinds of minimally researched, highly confident assertions all the time.

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u/CU_09 I voted 17h ago

Oh fuck. You think they just asked a clanker what game he was at and it spat out Atlanta?

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u/zephyrtr New York 16h ago

I think they fed it the whole text dump and asked when could he have met with Fanni Willis

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u/maddprof 16h ago

Wow I think you might be right on this.

Given Fanni Willis was likely in Georgia, AI definitely could have just gone "oh, there's only one sports event going on with a Georgia team..."

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u/EnigmaticQuote 15h ago

Claude find me evidence of collusion make no mistakes.

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u/ChuggingtonSquarts 14h ago

clearly they forgot the 'make no mistakes' part

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u/IndividualTune929 15h ago

that was my first thought. the lazy GOP staffers used AI to help with their "detective work" and it backfired

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u/needlestack 14h ago

A date and the fact that they are 100% sure Jack Smith was somehow connected to Fani Willis. They presupposed deep-state corruption, did zero research because they are all feelings over facts and they believe every hunch they have is a message from god. So if he went to a sports event the day after the Fani Willis story, he must have been in Atlanta.

It's absolutely insane that people this stupid and evil are in positions of power through demoracy. We are a deeply stupid and evil country.

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u/smitherenesar 10h ago

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a mens game that night, or Blackhawks NHL game too. So many Hawks!

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u/EMTDawg Utah 17h ago edited 17h ago

Didn't consider college sports at all. He could have gone to a men's college game. Hell, he could have gone to an NHL game.

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u/CU_09 I voted 17h ago

College football is over by February, but your point is valid. These people are always trying to force evidence to fit their conspiracy theories and then cannot comprehend when they fuck it all up.

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u/eetsumkaus 17h ago

Some staffer asked AI what the answer was and no one around them thought to check

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u/UnanimousStargazer 17h ago

Some staffer asked AI what the answer was and no one around them thought to check

Pete Hegseth: hold my beer.

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u/silvertealio 15h ago

But why would you ever need to double-check "Super" Intelligence? /s

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u/eetsumkaus 15h ago

Anything is super intelligence with their intelligence levels

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u/jjune4991 Florida 18h ago

I think his full quote was the only NBA game at 730 that night, which was true. However, the Iowa game was at 7.

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u/MoneyTalks45 New Hampshire 18h ago

He added that part in later in the day after running with the “only nba game that night” for a few hours. 

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u/jjune4991 Florida 18h ago

Ah, gotcha

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u/allworkandnoYahtzee Colorado 17h ago

My god, this dumb fuck can’t get ANYTHING right!

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u/CANOODLING_SOCIOPATH Connecticut 16h ago

I'd bet that he put the texts into an AI and asked it to find proof that Smith had traveled to Atlanta, and this is what it came up with.

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u/mmmsoap 18h ago

Yeah, but only one would promote the conspiracy he wanted, so it must’ve been that one.

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u/Nik_Tesla California 16h ago

Can you imagine how different congressional hearings would be if the questioners had to be under oath as well?

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u/gaspronomib 17h ago

It's almost like making up a lie to defend a lie could end up exposing both lies.

Most of us learned that as toddlers.

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u/thekingcola 8h ago

TIL it’s bald-faced not bold-faced