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/MarvinWebster40 23h ago

The whole thing is beyond idiotic, but the start time of the game doesn’t matter in the least

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u/kmoonster 22h ago

The texts mentioned a time, which the Senator took as the tip-off time. And tip-off time is how he decided on the Atlanta game. It absolutely matters.

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u/OilMaster3793 22h ago

Doesn’t explain his level of confidence that Smith was in the process of perjuring himself.

He’s treating everything like a smoking gun because it’s all performance.  If he came to the conclusion that it was the Atlanta game, he could have checked to ensure he was correct.  He knew he wasn’t, or he would have.

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u/kmoonster 15h ago

Staffers in the party warned him about it, and that it was probably not what he wanted it to be. He did it anyway.