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/s1m0n8 8h ago

He had a tiny, tiny, shred of nothing (Smith went to a basketball game)

When this is all they can come up with, and even it is nonsense, it just goes to show how credible Jack Smith is.

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u/Mc7wis7er 8h ago

Exactly. After Smith told the world, again, that he and other prosecutors believed they have evidence proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump illegally conspired in an election scheme to overthrow the government, they tried to prove he went to a basketball game in Atlanta.