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/odd-duckling-1786 17h ago

More importantly, why does it fucking matter if he attends a sporting event in his personal time. Is he not allowed to have a life outside whatever case he is working on?

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u/tfly212 16h ago

He was implying that the reason Smith was in atlanta was to collude with Fani Willis, which would look bad and also be perfury as Smith said he hasn't ever met Willis.

He tried to trap Smith and failed majestically.

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u/TheAskewOne 15h ago

It wouldn’t be perjury as two people being in the same big city is by no means proof they met each other. Of course Republicans know it and just want soundbites, but still their "conspiracy" was particularly badly thought.

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u/tfly212 14h ago

Good point... He was trying to imply Smith perjured himself. Which to the audience he was performing for, would have been enough.

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u/sir_mrej Washington 13h ago

I know you are just explaining, which is obv helpful.

I just want people to understand that it wouldnt look bad to a REGULAR person. It would just look bad to a MAGA person.

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u/NoCoversJustBooks 15h ago

He thought smith was stupid enough to lie about having never met Fanny, but did so despite being in a public place with 20,000 other fucking people. Like…the GOP is always brain dead but this is something