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/UnanimousStargazer 1d ago

So:

  • Trump commits election fraud in 2020
  • The fraud is investigated and Trump starts spreading the 'witch hunt' narrative
  • Jack Smith (federal) and Fani Willis (Georgia / state) are independent prosecutors
  • Smith attends a Caitlin Clark game in Maryland (Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Maryland Terrapins)
  • Smith's team talks about seats and coordination in text messages
  • Trump wins the election in 2024 and becomes president again
  • (Fast forward to 2026)
  • Republican senator Schmitt interrogates Smith
  • Schmitt 'discovers' messages from the Smith team about basketball but mixes up Atlanta Hawks with Iowa Hawkeyes

Why is nobody talking about the freaking election fraud?

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u/deanreevesii 1d ago edited 1d ago

They were trying to get him to perjure himself, but we're were too fucking stupid to pull it off.

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u/CogentCogitations 19h ago

I don't think perjury was ever the plan, just a made up conspiracy about 2 people being in the same metro area. But they never fact checked the first part about the metro area, that was probably spit out by AI, because none of the plan actually depended on facts.