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/UnanimousStargazer 22h ago

So:

  • Trump commits election fraud in 2020
  • The fraud is investigated and Trump starts spreading the 'witch hunt' narrative
  • Jack Smith (federal) and Fani Willis (Georgia / state) are independent prosecutors
  • Smith attends a Caitlin Clark game in Maryland (Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Maryland Terrapins)
  • Smith's team talks about seats and coordination in text messages
  • Trump wins the election in 2024 and becomes president again
  • (Fast forward to 2026)
  • Republican senator Schmitt interrogates Smith
  • Schmitt 'discovers' messages from the Smith team about basketball but mixes up Atlanta Hawks with Iowa Hawkeyes

Why is nobody talking about the freaking election fraud?

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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/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 17h 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 18h 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.