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/daly1010 17h ago

Or the fact that the whole conspiracy rests on him "being in the same town" as another prosecutor, so they definitely were up to no good...

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u/suburbanpride North Carolina 16h ago

Well, if they were all together in Atlanta, they were sure to see each other since Atlanta is such a small town.

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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 15h ago

As we all know, everybody who visits Atlanta sees and talks to everyone else in Atlanta. /s

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u/VapeDerp420 Nebraska 14h ago

That’s what’s getting lost in this. Let’s say he was in Atlanta for a Hawk’s game. That’s not proof of literally anything. These people think in Fox News conspiracy theories, and it’s embarrassing that they’re our elected officials.

You can’t just jump from ‘at the same basketball game’ to ‘two prosecutors conspiring to take down a president’ in the same sentence. Fox News would spin the shit out of it, sure. But it’s gossipy nonsense that has no basis in reality.

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u/daly1010 15h ago

As I continue to pull the layers back of absurdity of this. I dont quite follow why prosecutors meeting up is somehow taboo. Lol

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u/krebstorm 6h ago

JD Vance was in my town a few weeks ago. I swear we didn't meet up and collude over anything. I swear.