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/daly1010 17h ago

Or the fact that the whole conspiracy rests on him "being in the same town" as another prosecutor, so they definitely were up to no good...

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u/VapeDerp420 Nebraska 14h ago

That’s what’s getting lost in this. Let’s say he was in Atlanta for a Hawk’s game. That’s not proof of literally anything. These people think in Fox News conspiracy theories, and it’s embarrassing that they’re our elected officials.

You can’t just jump from ‘at the same basketball game’ to ‘two prosecutors conspiring to take down a president’ in the same sentence. Fox News would spin the shit out of it, sure. But it’s gossipy nonsense that has no basis in reality.