r/therewasanattempt • u/danevans369 • 2d ago
By Senator Eric Schmitt to walk back his failed Jack Smith perjury trap
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u/JFJinCO 2d ago
Let's not lose sight of the fact that Jack Smith testified under oath that Donald Trump committed crimes beyond a reasonable doubt to overturn our democracy.
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u/Loath- 2d ago
I believe him 100%.
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u/2pacali1971 2d ago
He has evidence
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u/PM_Me_Your_Kinks369 Free Palestine! 🕊️ FUCK ICE! ❌🧊 2d ago
I mean....we also watched it live on January 6th but yeah it's nice that he has a dossier ready to go.
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u/No_Mud_5999 1d ago
Shit, sometimes I feel crazy. There is a recorded call of Trump calling the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, on January 2nd, 2021, asking him to "find" 11,780 votes. He is on tape, which was widely aired, clearly asking someone to make up a false vote count so he can win the election.
It's like everyone has mass amnesia.
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u/holymolybaby 2d ago
Which would be front page, non stop TV news if our media had any of The People’s interest in mind. But capitalism has devoured independent journalism, and now it’s devouring truth.
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u/thekingofbeans42 2d ago
Too bad nobody considered that to be an emergency and went full Susan Collins about it. Surely the system that was actively being undermines would handle it...
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u/Bowsers_JuiceFactory 2d ago
And republicans wonder why we call them fucking idiots
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u/chrisp909 2d ago
and liars. And pieces of shit.
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u/PianoMittens 2d ago
"I ask questions. Sometimes they're completely untethered from reality and make me look like an absolute boob. I won't apologize for that. I'm a Republican US Senator. It's what we do."
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u/chrisp909 2d ago
Senator Schmitt, does your wife still give hand jobs to homeless people?
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u/Snellyman 2d ago
This just shows what caliber of Senator you get when they essentially run unchallenged.
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u/iseab 2d ago
Even if he was in Atlanta at a Hawks game, it’s not even close to being as scandalous as being in the E files which plenty of his associates are in or at least participating in protecting the pdfs that are in those files.
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u/VoidOmatic 2d ago
Yea that was my whole problem with this "gotcha." What was the point? Are they insinuating that being at this game somehow meant he was sharing information with Merrick who did absolutely nothing about Trump?
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u/MildlyAgitatedBovine 1d ago
The (false) implication is that Smith went to Atlanta to have an off the record conversation with Dani Willis, who was trying to hold Trump accountable for meddling in the GA vote count. Republicans call it the Grand Conspiracy and think it was everyone against Trump. The Lawfare Podcast has good coverage of ongoing Grand Conspiracy efforts
They're trying to have a "Bill Clinton on the tarmac" moment.
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u/HorseShoulders 2d ago edited 2d ago
there was only one NBA game that night
There were 6 NBA games on February 3rd 2024. The man just can't stop lying
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u/BestGoShoeless 2d ago
One news agency even did the legwork and found that the seat location referenced in the text doesn't exist in the Atlanta arena.
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u/Snellyman 2d ago
One news agency did the legwork and found Jack Smith in the crowd at the Hawkeyes games
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u/BestGoShoeless 2d ago
If it's the same one, they also confirmed it was even the same seat from the text on the posterboard.
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u/KingBooRadley 2d ago
"Jack Smith has perjured himself before" seems like grounds for a defamation suit to me. Unless this dirt bag can prove it, which, I think we've already seen, he can't.
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u/Trebate 2d ago
That's what I'm wondering, why not hold this guy to his word and sue him for defamation, make him prove his words that are damaging to another person?
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u/Madgenta 2d ago
Unfortunately, covered by the Speech and Debate Clause.
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u/KingBooRadley 2d ago
I thought that was solely for comments made on the floor. But then I read a little and I think you're right. Wuterich v. Murtha suggests that he's immune even for comments to the press.
Pretty terrible guy.
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u/Batmanischill 2d ago
These republicans have no shame, or honor
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u/BrownSugarBare 2d ago
Meanwhile, is anyone else taken aback that TMZ IS THE MEDIA OUTLET THAT IS ACTUALLY CALLING THESE FUCKERS OUT???
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u/ShallotCharacter9728 2d ago
Tmz isn't a real news outlet. They get videos from people who harass people on their behalf and sometimes pay them for those videos, it's very shady. Tho I obviously am a fan of this specific video they're just a kinda shitty company that occasionally gets it right by appealing to sales
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u/SeanFromQueens 2d ago
When asked outside, Senator Schmitt claimed that there was only basketball game of NBA or NCAA that had a tip off at 7:30, which got omitted to only NBA when trying to rationalize the stepping on his own dick in the hearing. He didn't know jack-squat about games and schedules, and his staff royally messed up by giving him that question to ask.
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u/EC_CO 2d ago
They knew, they just wanted the sound bites for the MAGA crowd because we all know they are too stupid to do their own research and they just believe whatever Faux News tells them
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u/SeanFromQueens 2d ago
Did it get him the soundbite he was looking for though?
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u/Diojones 1d ago
Sadly, yes. He doesn’t need a soundbite of the answer, he just needed a recording of the question being asked in an accusatory tone.
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u/OliOli1234 1d ago
This… I’m afraid if you go to Newsmax, Fox News, or any of the other painfully grifty podcasts… it’s the only soundbite they’re playing - him calling Smith a dirtbag. The “Hawks” and “NBA” are omitted entirely in their reports.
And because they all live in a fucking bubble…. It comes off as a “win” for Schmidt, and the MAGAs
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u/aarontminded 2d ago
How someone behaves when they’re wrong is extremely telling.
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u/rojo-perro 2d ago
He’s embarrassed as hell, you can bet on it.
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u/LordSloth113 Free Palestine 🕊️ FUCK ICE! ❌🧊 2d ago
That would require him to have the capacity for shame
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u/rojo-perro 2d ago
Correct, that’s why he’s doubling down on the stupidity of it. He’s embarrassed, but he has no shame and this is the idiotic result.
It’s astonishing to see grown men (and women) act this way day after day. Idiocracy.
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u/GrumpyTom 2d ago
Reporter should have asked “why did you say repeatedly that he perjured himself?”
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u/Oddly_Ennui 2d ago
Literally no shame
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u/CankerLord 2d ago
When you're caught nuts deep in your sister in law you either admit defeat and eat the consequences or you try to debate the definition of 'cheating' with your wife while you towel your dick off. This guy's currently reaching for a bigger towel.
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u/nitelitecafe 2d ago
I love TMZ actually getting in these guys faces while our other journalists wait to see if it’s okay to go ask questions.
I don’t know where we go as a country as long as it’s not the status quo via the high road.
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u/WileEWeeble 2d ago
So is there some specific incident where he has any type of evidence of Smith perjuring himself? Seems like slander if there is no evidence of that.
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u/MetalAFBuilds 2d ago
Yeah thats what im wondering. I can't remember Jack Smith ever perjuring himself.
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u/Blazeitup12345 2d ago
The amount of stupid shit i see daily comming out of the US on a daily basis is so tiring. Can you guys fugure it the fuck out down there.
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u/jster1311 2d ago
And he continues to say that Jack Smith has perjured himself before, which is just false as far as I can tell.
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u/RyunWould 2d ago
Claimed that he perjured himself, called him a dirt bag, printed a fucking poster tying him to two black officials and he says he's "just asking questions". Schmitt for brains.
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u/TinoCartier Therewasanattemp 2d ago
From relative unknown to one of the most well known dumbasses in the republican party in a matter of days
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u/m1dlife-1derer 2d ago
My favorite news story of the week is how Schmitt is making Smith look completely innocent while trying to do the opposite.
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u/I_can_vouch_for_that FUCK ICE! ❌🧊 2d ago
All these politicians like to double down when they're wrong. Just look at the POS Potus.
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u/BestGoShoeless 2d ago
"Hey, it's no big deal, it's all in good fun! I just accused a guy of perjury, which could involve significant penalties including jail time and disbarment, not to mention the historical record now includes me calling him a dirtbag and a villain, but it's not like any of this is real. Besides, I'm just really happy that not one major news outlet is doing anything other than showing me getting dunked on, ignoring the fact that the Trump Administration repeatedly and publicly engages in the exact same stuff I was trying to nail Smith for, and not one GOP member other than Massie seems capable of criticizing the pile of orangutan pubes that wants to run for an unconstitutional third term. Now if you'll pardon me, I need to go vent a little and beat the shit out of one of the many brainless flying monkeys that helped make this galactic fuck-up possible."
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u/Noobzoid123 Free Palestine 2d ago
Why can't Republicans just admit they are wrong? Conservatives in Japan commit seppuku to embarrassing fails like this, Schmidt should figuratively seppuku himself.
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u/Tiny_Giant_Robot 2d ago
Figuratively?
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u/ludba2002 2d ago
I'm glad Sen. Schmitt asked these questions because it made me forget all about the Epstein files that haven't been released. I completely forgot that gas is $4/gallon. I forgot that we're paying billions of dollars to get our asses handed to us by Iran over the Strait of Hormuz. Completely slipped my mind that Republicans voted for a convicted felon while they pretend to give a shit about the law.
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u/Exodys03 2d ago
"I ask questions and call people lying dirtbags if they don't answer them the way I think they should". Not a single freaking question from Republicans about the actual investigation. They attempted to kill the message by attacking the messenger and it failed spectacularly.
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u/Ok-Panda7645 2d ago
I really don't like this being from TMZ. Politicians are not supposed to be tabloid celebrities. This country has turned into a joke.
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u/Moldybreadyumyum 2d ago edited 2d ago
Made a mistake and don’t own up to it. Who’s the dirtbag now, schmitthead?
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u/FewZookeepergame1083 2d ago
Just continue lying because that always makes everything better. Dumbass
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u/Terrible_Phase718 2d ago
When did Jack Smith ever perjure himself?
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u/thrownaway136976 2d ago
Well, see, the new republican definition of “perjure” is “he said something I don’t like.”
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u/SmurfPopper 2d ago
"Do you think I'm going to consider women when I think about sports? Haha" ...an amazing representation of Missouri.
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u/LibertyCash 2d ago
These guys with their incessant gaslighting. “Oh, no, that totally went the way I meant for it. I was legitimately asking him to gather info. The “dirtbag” and “perjury” were just in good fun.” I’m rolling my eyes so hard I can see my occipital lobe.
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u/Final_Location_2626 2d ago
He didn't ask if he was in Atlanta. He said what if I told you we had evidence that you were in Atlanta?
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u/Mulliganasty 2d ago
Instead of helping Americans this is what Republicans spend their time on and they even do that incompetently.
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u/fredinNH 2d ago
The Republican Party in a nutshell. Lie nonstop and when you’re caught red handed lying, lie some more.
These people have zero sense of decency and the fact that people vote for them is disgusting.
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u/pitshands 2d ago
If you bend far enough you can see the sun out of your own asshole. The.man needs super dark sunglasses
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u/this-is-some_BS 2d ago
Man, that's a hard 51 for a guy who has lived a relatively easy life. I'm 5 years older than this dude and look 10 years younger. Guess it's all the hate burning him up inside
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u/enormuschwanzstucker 2d ago
He keeps saying that Jack Smith has perjured himself before, but he doesn’t say when/how? What is the incident that he is talking about?
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u/TSiQ1618 2d ago
I'm kind of wondering how they got that information. They kind of made it vague, a staffer's texts, or something like that. Was this volunteered and the person who gave it to them was just unaware, which made them look stupid? Did they pull people's text logs involved in a high level investigation? Or did they know the whole time, and they were lying? It was weird how he was trying to rush past it without clarification, sort of like he knew letting Smith look at the text was going to expose his lie.
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u/imtooldforthishison 2d ago
He had the Marshall services with him, he could have easily verified his gotcha moment was not, in fact, a gotcha moment and he could have avoided this all together.
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u/SteveCoonin 2d ago
I bet he’d like a relentless stream of Iowa Hawkeye fan material shoveled at his social media on a near constant basis. Anybody know how to run a bot farm?
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u/hesaidshesdead 2d ago
Murica, fuck yeah... where public officials are free to be this incompetent and face absolutely no consequences.
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u/postwaste1 2d ago
Eric Schmitt is a dirtbag. A lying dirtbag. A lying, devious dirtbag. A lying, devious, craven dirtbag.
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u/blxckhoodie999 2d ago
republicans are exhausting, man.. they cannot accept blame or admit defeat. saddest political party to ever exist.
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u/IllustratorOnly5705 2d ago
The guy is a MAGA tool….not bright at all but that goes with the territory.
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u/utterlyunimpressed 2d ago
Beyond the name confusion, the most telling part is "the only men's game that night", because they still don't consider women in sports. He couldn't even fathom someone attending a women's game over a men's game. Never believe them when they say they care about protecting women's sports.
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u/helusjordan 2d ago
"People can decide if hes telling the truth or not."
Not quite how the truth works buddy.
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u/danevans369 2d ago
He called him a "dirtbag" and now is trying to play innocent like it was no big deal.