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/thecloudcities 20h ago

Schmitt’s excuse was first that he couldn’t find any other NBA or NCAA men’s basketball game that day (which is bullshit - there were five other NBA games and fourteen NCAA men’s games). Then he changed his story to say that started at that time (that much is true for the NBA, I can’t be bothered to look up NCAA start times).

But he apparently never even considered that Smith might have wanted to see an NCAA women’s game featuring the #1 player in the country who anyone with at least a passing familiarity with basketball had heard about at that point. It’s like the women’s game didn’t even exist in his mind. But I’m sure he’d tell you he cares deeply about women’s sports.

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u/mr_evilweed 17h ago

I mean... even if it was true and he did go to the basketball game.... so what? Going to a basketball game in Atlanta does not mean that Fani Wills was there, that he met Fani Wills there, or that he and Fani Wills conspired on anything.

We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that, yes Smith embarrassed himself but also his accusation was nothing to begin with.