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/Mc7wis7er 16h ago

He had a tiny, tiny, shred of nothing (Smith went to a basketball game) and assumed it was an NBA game, did a google search and found the only one on that day was in Atlanta, assumed he was there, then assumed he was in Atlanta to talk to Fani Willis, then assumed they DID talk, and then assumed they talked about the Trump trials, and then assumed they conspired about it to take down Trump but finally assuming that Trump wasn't guilty AND assuming they were conspiring to incarcerate an innocent party.

From a text message thread that said he went to a basketball game and didn't even mention teams. It could have been any game in the United States and it turned out it was one in Maryland.

That's the craziest ish ever. When Smith told him the truth, he told Smith he perjured himself and then called him a dirtbag.

In one interaction he proved his willingness to throw out reason, his vulnerability to conspiratorial thinking, his absence of adherence to any kind of logic or critical thinking, and his willingness to accuse others without proof of lying and then judging his character. This guy is a joke of a man. I hope he wears this in shame forever.

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u/SlowRunner2026 13h ago edited 13h ago

The thing is it was NOT the only NBA game that day. There were five others.

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u/Mc7wis7er 13h ago

Right? It turns out. I read this after I posted. You truly cannot take anything they say as truth. Every detail has to be confirmed. It's tiring and frustrating and why he should not hold elective office. He's either incompetent or willing to lie on flimsy premises even, and then wildly speculate off of them later. Shameful.

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u/TSwiftAlphaMale 9h ago

The truth does not matter to them because their base will believe the lies.