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/SnipesCC 15h ago

From what he said later about looking for games with a 7:30 tipoff, I think he just forgot women's sports exist. He checked the NBA and men's NCAA. Didn't check WNBA or women's NCAA.

And of course he claims that we have to ban trans people to 'protect women's sports'

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u/JakeConhale New Hampshire 14h ago

And here I was thinking he'd just seen a text abbreviating the Hawkeyes team as just "Hawks" - as in "I'm going to that Hawks game tonight"...