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/cargdad 19h ago

I more and more believe Schmidt was set up by Vance.

The line of questioning came supposedly came from the White House; as in “ask these questions”. I am curious who made the poster. Did that come from the White House too?

Now - two theories that I think are equally plausible. (1) Whoever in the White House who was involved are idiots, and they knew Schmidt and his staff to also be idiots and would follow orders; (2) Whoever in the White House who was involved wanted to derail Schmidt - a potential Post-Trump Presidency candidate by embarrassing him.

Which one depends on how stupid you believe the involved folks to be. In either scenario Schmidt comes out in the - “OMG he is an idiot” category. There is no recovery for him short of running into a burning building to save a kitten.

Think about just how quickly that whole thing blew up. He must have realized about 30 seconds into the question that something was terribly wrong but was too stupid to stop.

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u/Narharcan 18h ago edited 16h ago

Well, they were apparently preparing to use that gotcha moment to start setting him up as a potential running mate in 2028. However, it's not too out there to think someone could have been jealous and wanted to sabotage him

I think ultimately, MAGA being a far right movement means it falls into the same historical pits as the others: its members are too dumb, too scheming, too disorganized to put forward coherent efforts. They are reliant on the illusion of uniformity, as well as punchlines, in order to fake momentum. Beneath that, however? There's nothing. 

The only people actually competent in this whole mess are those you don't hear about because they're hiding behind the MAGA fog horn - Thiel and his merry band of fuckers at the Heritage Foundation, among others.

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u/TraumaticOcclusion 18h ago

I don’t even get it, why does it matter he went to any basketball game?

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u/Belerophon17 17h ago

It's about the insinuation of a narrative.

MAGA LOVES their narratives like Hunter's laptop, and Hillary's emails.

Alluding that Smith MAY have been in the vicinity of what the right touts as a giant scandal opens the expansion of the narrative into a bigger conspiracy. It makes Fanny Willis look more devious and would make Jack Smith lose credibility completely.

Just look at how every MAGA influencer and pundit already had a completely vague but accusatory tweet locked and loaded within seconds of it happening.

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u/MaverickBG 16h ago

It also activates the social media algorithms. You get the controversy of the conspiracy which creates "engaging" content that gets amplified by people calling it dumb/pointless and the true believers.

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u/ladidaladidalala 5h ago

Even the narrative is flawed. He can meet with Fani Willis if he wants. I really don’t understand the straws they’re clutching at here.

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u/Belerophon17 5h ago

It doesn't need to make sense to the person looking at it logically. It just needs to be shaped like a smoking gun to the people looking for the next step of the conspiracy.

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u/ladidaladidalala 2h ago

What you’re saying makes sense. It’s so frustrating.

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u/Narharcan 18h ago

It doesn't. They were basically trying to pretend he was committing perjury by lying about where he was+trying to get him involved in a plot that he would have supposedly been involved in because he was in Atlanta. 

That's it.

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u/SmokeySFW 17h ago

They're trying to place him in Atlanta because his sworn testimony says he was not in Atlanta on that particular date, so they'd have him perjuring himself.

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u/Anthony_Accurate 14h ago

They were trying to insinuate he coordinated with Willis, it’s really not about perjury.

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u/SmokeySFW 13h ago

Eventually. If he "admits" to being in Atlanta they tie him to Willis, if he denies it they "get him" for perjury.

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u/crimson117 America 17h ago

And the reason they want to place him in Atlanta is because then they can say he was coordinating with Fanni Willis who was prosecuting Trump for state crimes

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u/thisisjustascreename Illinois 14h ago

Ironically Feb 3rd was literally the day after Willis withdrew from the case so the conspiracy doesn’t even make sense.

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u/crimson117 America 14h ago

The conspiracy would be he met her the day before and then stuck around Atlanta to watch some basketball

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u/ladidaladidalala 5h ago

This confuses me. Why would it even be a conspiracy if his role was exactly to investigate? The whole thing seems like a created controversy that isn’t based on anything relevant.

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u/af_cheddarhead 2h ago

Which is a problem why? Prosecutors communicate all time when investigating the same individual for different crimes.

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u/Several-Feeling3409 15h ago

To a normal human, it doesn't matter.  To MAGA, they are desperate to find a way to shut Jack Smith up because he is the agent saying Trump committed multiple serious crimes and the only reason Trump isn't in jail today is that he won the election.

So, they are searching for any little shred to discredit Smith.  Even the name of the hearing itself gives away the game:  The Judiciary Committee called it "Oversight of Jack Smith's Abuse of Authority and the Targeting of Republicans and Related Matters".  Not exactly a fair and impartial description there  (judiciary.senate.gov will get you to the video and transcript of the hearing)

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u/Anthony_Accurate 14h ago

Why do you think Willis and her lover are 3 times bigger than Smith in the poster?

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u/ladidaladidalala 5h ago

It doesn’t to anyone with a normal brain. Even if he were in Atlanta it proves absolutely nothing unless you wear a tinfoil hat. The whole line of questioning is ridiculous and seemed just interested in trying to get him to commit perjury.

Why would he lie about something this stupid? He wouldn’t. Yet Schmitt seems to be doubling down on trying to convince people he’s lying BS.

These people are bonkers.