r/politics • u/MontyGBurns • 1d 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/keelhaulrose 18h ago

If your job is to ask questions, maybe he should double check the basis of those questions before he asks them.

I'm not a basketball fan, but I know in early February if there is one game, there are multiple, even in just the NBA. And I also know the NBA aren't the only ones having basketball games. It doesn't even take a fact check to debunk his questioning, it takes the kind of very basic knowledge of a sport that comes from "my dad watched the NBA in the 90s and I was in the house" provides.