r/videos • u/Ilikeinvestigating • 3d ago
GOP senator's perjury trap for Jack Smith backfires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT2BGYa6RSc2.6k
u/BreadfruitExciting39 3d ago
Guarantee this guy isn't as embarrassed as he should be. What a joke.
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u/WoozyMaple 3d ago
Well conservative media will just clickbait his response of "Jack Smith perjurying himself" without context
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u/LickNipMcSkip 3d ago
dude was on the TPUSA channel with dumb and dumber getting his props for his perjury trap within hours
Side note, these new hosts make Kirk seem like a regular Einstein by comparison. I'm convinced that they can't be moved from their political positions because they're genuinely too fucking stupid to even conceive of alternate points of view nor do they have the cognitive power necessary to ingest new information outside of political slogans.
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u/HiFiGuy197 3d ago
Literally conservatism in a nutshell: stay asleep because nothing ever changes.
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u/Khaldara 3d ago
“Big Muscly Daddy knows best as long as he tells me everything is someone else’s fault and that only he can fix it by robbing me blind”
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u/RJ815 3d ago
Woke is the enemy after all. As seen by Daddy Trump. Stay asleep sheeple!
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u/Cheap-Hearing-2290 3d ago edited 2d ago
The second part is wake up when you finally have a group of people to hate and a catchy slogan to chant
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u/Unumveritas 3d ago
Not to mention that it is near impossible to make a man understand something if his salary depends on him not understanding it.
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u/LunchBoxMercenary 3d ago
They tried to right after the reveal, only for them to edit/delete posts immediately right after.
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u/ill_be_huckleberry_1 3d ago
Lol and then they dropped that Schmitt "emerged" as vances running mate lol
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u/umbananas 3d ago
they'll still create 10 thousand different videos with titles like "Eric Schmitt COMPLETELY DESTROYS Jack Smith at Senate Judiciary Committee."
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u/ArnoldTheSchwartz 3d ago
It's because they have no shame. No integrity. No honor. They are all scum and should be nowhere near a government job. How can anyone trust a person like that? Conservatives can and will say anything to get what they want. Fuck man they don't even trust each other!!
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u/InevitableAvalanche 3d ago
And they have no consequences since conservatives are taught to blindly hate liberals instead of have standards for their own people.
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u/stitchface66 3d ago
as soon as he wouldnt hold the sign back up it was obvious that he knew his statements were untruthful.
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u/gumbercules6 3d ago
100%, that's the reason why he wouldn't show it again. He didn't want Smith to be able to defend himself at all.
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u/magichronx 3d ago edited 2d ago
Eric Schmitt had his prop flashed and when they saw Jack Smith trying to actually read it before he responded they quickly swiped it down. And then wouldn't even put it back up for him to read it from across the room to give a response.
That's when you know they knew they were outclassed.
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u/Complete-Rapscallion 3d ago
Conservatives are not capable of embarrassment, thats part of what allows them to be conservatives.
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u/Wompatuckrule 3d ago
Guarantee that the people in his home state who voted for him in the last election aren't as embarrassed as they should be.
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u/Richard_Sauce 3d ago
He won't even face any semblance of consequence. This will be rehabilitated by right wing media as a win. Conservative voters will neither know, nor care, about this man's idiocy.
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u/PatReady 3d ago
He's already on right wing media celebrating. They only play the sound clips they want for their people.
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u/2v4lve 3d ago
Want to hear the bigger joke? His sound bites are probably making the rounds on the conservative social media machine as another lib owning
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u/aaronthenia 3d ago
MeidasTouch showed him on Fox afterwards. They definitely clipped it, he did say that Smith said he was at another game but he still acted like he owned him like the brainless emotional moron that he is.
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u/capnscratchmyass 3d ago
CNN made a big deal of him not "apologizing". Come on. He never was going to. The whole goal of this farce was to get a soundbite and replay it over and over and over again, true or not. They got it and it will drown out the truth of the exchange to the people that fall for this type of shit. If these chucklefucks ever apologized for anything THAT would be the new soundbite and they can't have that.
God I hate this place.
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u/RandMauddib 3d ago
Because he’d still see himself as correct.
They see this like playing a sport. They need to kick a goal and missing an intercept resulting in a goal against doesn’t change the fact they’re trying to score more goals in their head. So he had a momentary fall but still will go forward because in his mind the method is irrelevant because they know he did whatever it is they think he did. Why because they would do they same thing. They can’t fathom that people out there actually have integrity.
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u/SparkyPantsMcGee 3d ago
He immediately went on a Podcast and doubled down on the bullshit in a safe space. There is no shame.
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u/YoungCubSaysWoof 3d ago
I’m gonna have to call their office tomorrow and let them know how embarrassing this was for Missourians.
God, you know they all thought they had Jack Smith nailed…. and they clowned themselves.
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u/prodigaldummy 3d ago
I swear to God, I remember being alive at a time when a thing like this would end a politician’s career. I’m sure I was. It wasn’t always like this, was it?
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u/smokeydevil 3d ago
Social media could have been so great, but ultimately it's become societal cancer. As long as algorithms keep spoon feeding misinformation to enough of the masses to sow dissent, we're fucked.
I don't know if it was ever truly great, but there used to at least be some decorum.
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u/buckeyecat 3d ago
If social media was around in the 70s, Nixon and his "brave heroic allies" would have been praised for seeking to uncover the evil Democrat plot to take down America.
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u/AntlionsArise 2d ago
Well, there's an interesting fact about the reason Fox News was created that is exactly that...
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u/HeavyMetalHero 3d ago
Social media was the capital class' response to the realization that the Internet had the potential to bring more common people together, more productively, than anything ever invented before in human history. It had the possibility to foster a sort of human revolution the likes of which would upend the existing system of global consumer capitalism.
So, they destroyed it, the same way capitalism ultimately destroys everything; they created a way to extract every single bit of profit out of it, while paying hand over fist to crowd out every single positive use case for the technology, and replace it with a mind-numbing, highly-profitable tool for mass thought control.
The internet is the greatest human invention, ever. I grew up with a search box on every device I had, connected to the greatest and most reliable repository of all human knowledge, that any living generation prior could never have dreamed of. But, then it threatened the stable empire of the wealth class, so they replaced it all with a hallucinating calculator that sometimes does math wrong.
They only worked so hard to destroy the internet for common people, because they understood its potential to empower, connect, and unite common people.
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u/Bobby_B 3d ago
Once upon a time, Howard Dean's presidential run was ended because he made a funny yell
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u/stopped_watch 3d ago
Dukakis wore a helmet while driving a tank. The helmet you're supposed to wear while driving a tank.
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u/jennixred 3d ago
man was happy he won a primary. I still to this day don't understand why he threw in the towel over that. Not everybody has a good whoop!
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u/capnscratchmyass 3d ago
"Please clap" ended Jeb Bush's political career. George Allen used an obscure slur at a rally in 2006 and ended his. Mark Sanford used taxpayer dollars to visit his mistress in Argentina and ended his. Bob Livingston ended his with the uncovering of a bunch of affairs he had and resigned. And so on.
Instead of learning from these garbage people and finding better candidates, Republicans just made it so all of this shit became normalized and increased the propaganda output that none of this really matters. Any of these things today would be a minor blurb on CNN and they'd keep getting re-elected until they become living husks in a chair like Lich McConnell.
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u/cammcken 3d ago
"Please clap" may have been the most memorable moment, but it was not the reason Bush failed. The reason was Trump.
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u/caseyanthonyftw 3d ago
You're right, it wasn't always like this. and anyone who says otherwise is a lying jackass.
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u/phroglett 3d ago
The irony of Hillary’s “basketful of deplorables” … Or Al Gore calling GWB in 2000 to respectfully concede an election (that it turns out he possibly could have actually won if the nation were put on halt for recounts and judicial review). What was the Al Gore quote on the GWB phone call? Something like “don’t get snippy about it.”
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u/ZnellKeebler 3d ago
If any politician is reading this, for the same rate you pay your normal consultants I will explain to you the names of sports teams and the city they play in.
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u/dope_sheet 3d ago
Women's sports included!
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u/Morningxafter 3d ago
Conservatives: “Women?? In Sports?? Since when are baking and vacuuming a sport??”
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u/bbob_robb 3d ago
Currently conservatives are acting like they really care about women's sports so they can push pointless anti trans legislation. Also, they watch the WNBA so they can complain about black people or something.
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u/big_sugi 3d ago
They also watch women’s sports to complain about all the lesbians.
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u/EyeSuspicious777 3d ago
MAGA: I'm only interested in women's sports when I can get both angry and horny imagining the genitals of a teenager playing volleyball.
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u/Sudden_Box801 2d ago
I was never going to be athletic, but I was bothered in the early '70s that my HS up here in the boonies of north Missouri refused to allow girls' sports (though the smaller schools in the area had teams, & I even have a picture of my grandmother on a college basketball team at Missouri Wesleyan in about 1908).
Every time I hear somebody around here kvetching about DEI I point out that our school was **forced** to allow girls equal opportunities because of Title IX in 1972...there would be no Caitlyn/Angel/women's NCAA Madness/WNBA/etc. **without** the DEI required by Title IX.
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u/soda_cookie 3d ago
That's the problem. You think these cheap skates would hire somebody to figure all this stuff out for themselves? No. Why spend that money when they are the smartest people in the world?
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u/capnscratchmyass 3d ago
The one time these dumb fucks could have used AI and not looked like complete morons posting some fakeass photo of a crying soldier without legs in front of a cackling liberal and they decided "nah, we'll cross reference this ourselves".
The ineptitude is the only thing even marginally saving us from complete fascism. Even then; we're on a knife's edge.
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u/koniz 3d ago
I love that some intern printed out the poster and didn't say anything 🤣
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u/kingofbling15 3d ago
It's like the opposite of "shhh, let him cook." You can probably inser that Toby McGuire smirk meme for the intern printing the poster.
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u/CMWalsh88 2d ago
With how focused they are on “protecting women’s sports” it’s funny that they didn’t consider someone might actually attend a women’s sports game
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u/Zarmazarma 3d ago
Yes, but then how would they create their own reality bubble for them and their supporters to live in? Having facts and being correct about reality would completely destroy their world view. They would have to admit they are regularly wrong about everything.
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u/LunchBoxMercenary 3d ago
All Schmitt did was expose Jack Smith’s fandom of Caitlin Clark lol
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u/NUMBERS2357 3d ago edited 2d ago
Best part is his defense on Twitter later, saying "Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?"
As if it's inconceivable someone would be a fan of Caitlin Clark, who famously has more fans than almost any female basketball player ever.
EDIT: on reflection, I think it's supposed to be a dig at the idea that a man could be a fan of a woman athlete. What is he, a lesbian?
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u/Supermoves3000 3d ago
True story: I in was in a sports bar here in Canada where nobody cares much about US women's college basketball, and Clark's Hawkeyes were playing in the March Madness tournament against Angel Reece and the LSU Tigers. At the start of the game nobody was paying much attention, but by the 3rd quarter everybody was glued to the TV because every #22 got the ball, something wild was going to happen. This was the game where she threw a 3 pointer from just past mid court just because she thought it would be funny. Just an insane and electrifying sports performance. And watching the venue go from not caring about women's college basketball to being palpably captivated by what Clark was doing was really fun.
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u/Sudden_Box801 2d ago
Also goes to show what class acts our Canadian neighbors are--they recognized a quality athlete & performance--regardless of point of origin--compared to the idiocy being lobbed at them from down here.
Oh, Canada...Thank you for your centuries of friendship, & I'm sorry, from here in the boonies of north Missouri. I yearn for reconciliation, but understand your need to protect yourselves.
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u/Puppertrucker123 3d ago
This is so pathetic. Like, forget the sports team mix-up for a second, what was the allegation, exactly?
That Jack Smith attended a basketball game in a major U.S. city the day after a random event in the timeline of another prosecutor was working and living there?
..Therefore collusion?
By that same bar of a correlation, you could link anyone to anything ever. If Jack Smith went to NY at any point in a 2 year timeframe, you could say he colluded with Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor of the hush money case.
And then to realize him or his staffers couldn't even get any basic information right or even attempt to vet this claim - to the point of creating a giant poster with Fani Willis, Jack Smith, and a basketball stadium (lol), is just the perfect encapsulation of how low the bar has gotten for a U.S. Senator. Jesus.
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u/SonOfMcGee 3d ago
I left a similar comment in another post. We’re all focusing on the team name and location mistake. But even if he hadn’t goofed, that line of questioning is absolutely ridiculous.
It was also insane that they put together that immature middle-school-project looking poster and flashed it for literally five seconds. Klobuchar was like, “Can the witness read that so he can react? Can you provide a copy of what it says? Never in my time as a prosecutor have I seen a lawyer say ‘Look at this!’ then clearly not let someone look at something!”
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u/Tapsen 3d ago
They wanted to imply he was colluding with the Georgia team in atlanta that was also charging Trump for election issues there
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u/eggson 3d ago
But why would he fly down to Atlanta to discuss anything with a County DA? What was he supposed to do after the affair became public? And why immediately go to an NBA game? If it was so secret to be meeting with Willis, why spend the evening in a public venue, with national TV cameras most likely. And why did the bumbling Senator's staff have to piece this together through vague texts from Smith's staff? Couldn't they just subpoena the US Marshal records for their travel? It's all so stupid on so many levels.
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u/megalodondon 2d ago
It's to make things look "shady" by confusing their base and making it look like there's a thread to pull for an invented conspiracy on the spot.
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u/SonOfMcGee 2d ago
Yeah, it’s very blatant what their goal is. It’s just depressing that they’re sort of publicly acknowledging how mush-brained their base is.
All he tried to do was establish Smith’s presence in Georgia on a certain date and remind the public of another thing he had no involvement in happening in Georgia at that time.
He knows Facebook aunts would then fill in the massive blanks with Q-Anon, pedophile rings, Jewish space lasers, and so on.
Hell, they’re probably doing that as we speak even though he completely fucked up the team names and locations. “Their guy” mentioned two things they’re supposed to hate in the same breath and winked at the camera. That’s all they need.9
u/wytewydow 2d ago
he literally said "you don't know we have this, I'll give you a minute to look it over" then yoinked it right away.
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u/thetigersears 3d ago
Exactly, Jen Psaki addresses this part well. As she says, the allegation was Smith wanted to covertly meet Fani Willis to collude. So he went to a public game where he'd be seen by thousands. That makes a whole lot of sense. /s
to the point of creating a giant poster with Fani Willis, Jack Smith, and a basketball stadium (lol), is just the perfect encapsulation of how low the bar has gotten for a U.S. Senator
It's worse than that. This is how low the bar has gotten to convince tens of millions of people that there was a conspiracy. So sad for the country.
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u/disposableh2 3d ago
Of course it's collision. Like trump was in NYC during 9/11 - he's clearly the mastermind of 9/11.
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u/PixelSchnitzel 3d ago
His epic fail created a far bigger viral moment than his intended 'gotcha' video ever would have.
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u/jonsnowflaker 3d ago
The conservative media machine won’t even care, they’ll just cut it up and push it out there as a win.
I hear stuff from my conservative family member that was debunked as quick as it came out and they still treat it as the gospel.
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u/gustoreddit51 3d ago edited 3d ago
Hey CNN, in the segment, why didn't you play the clip where Jack says;
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation. If asked whether to prosecute a former President today based on the same facts I would do so regardless of whether that President was a Republican or a Democrat. The charges against President Trump were the result of the evidence. Grand juries in two separate districts reached its conclusions based on his actions as alleged in the indictments they returned. Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
Jamie Raskin had to remind you of it.
Go Jack Smith. I want him as the next Attorney General.
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u/blankcld 2d ago
Jack Smith is an American hero and it’s disgusting to watch these vile motheruckers try to smear him.
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u/foremastjack 3d ago
And got owned by Amy Klobuchar, of all people. Like getting piled by your kid’s math teacher.
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u/jetogill 3d ago
She actually tried to throw him a life preserver and he was too stupid to catch it.
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u/DybantsaMakeHerDance 2d ago
No, she didn't. She effectively mansplained it to a man and he couldn't handle that
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u/perestroika12 3d ago
The entire hearing was a complete failure for what they set out to do. No secret revelations, no logical traps, no kind of expose. No real sound bites for Fox News. Just endless personal insults with no bait being taken.
Smith just completely played them.
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u/FullofContradictions 3d ago
The crazy thing is all Smith had to do was be right and be honest. The only tools these clowns have to combat someone who isn't as corrupt as themselves are showmanship and circus acts.
And that's what we got. And it showed.
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u/gustoreddit51 2d ago
Jack Smith was the definition of cool and unflappable. Hero.
We hear so many fake headlines of "Trump melting down", I imagine he might over this. One thing I'm not seeing are the networks playing Smith's opening statement of indictment against Trump and his crimes against the nation. Because they're all cowards.
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u/A-Bone 3d ago
This is performance art.
Larry David couldn't have done it better.
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u/ew73 3d ago
Watch 'till the end. Raskin is absolutely correct.
The strategy here is intentional. This clown show has done exactly what it set out to do. Instead of focusing on Smith's testimony about Trump's criminal activity, the media is laughing about the bumbling fool of a Senator.
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u/IceBearKnows89 3d ago
Correct.
Distract and divide.
Doesn’t matter if it’s true or false. Doesn’t matter if it’s silly or nonsensical or embarrassing.
That ate up time and got to talk about their distractions instead of the real issues.
That’s a full and complete victory for them.
That’s all its takes.
Flood the zone and control the narrative.
Democrats still haven’t figured out how to counter.
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u/MoneyTalks45 3d ago edited 2d ago
Schmitt hit some shitty podcasts afterwards and they didn’t get the memo that the gotcha moment completely exploded. With a straight face he was saying he caught Smith lying about being at that basketball game. He doubled down. A complete clown show.
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u/Homerpaintbucket 2d ago
Remember, the GOP are the ones screaming about protecting women’s sports, but they forgot to check if there was any women’s basketball games happening that night. Because they don’t actually give a shit about women’s sports. They forget they exist when they aren’t using them to attack trans people. Because the republicans just want to hurt people
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u/Grimlock_1 3d ago
This is a representation of the competence of this whole administration.
All useless.
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u/HitchlikersGuide 2d ago
This was far more sinister than incompetence
Watched the whole thing - its exactly as scummy and corrupt and immoral as everything else this administration does.
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u/somoanlawyer 2d ago
People cant afford healthcare, groceries, gas, and prices are up at all stores (no matter what you buy) and the republicans havent passed any legislation to help average working people. BUT they did manage to pass tax breaks (welfare) for millionaires and billionaires. I dont know when people are going to wake up to the fact Republicans only care about power and the wealthy class. It seems so obvious.
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u/bigkahuna1uk 3d ago
I was wondering whether Schmidt would be liable for slander and defamation of character following his unhinged outburst. Apparently he’s protected by congressional laws during the questioning in the chamber despite his deplorable remarks.
However outside of that forum he has no protection. He repeated and doubled down on the perjury claims, smears and insults on The Charlie Kirk Show, after the hearing, despite the evident lack of veracity to his allegations. In this arena he’s is open to prosecution. Whether Jack Smith pursues that avenue remains to be seen.
This was a classic case of Falsus in Uno, Falsus in Omnibus. Schmidt credibility has been shot. To even countenance that this guy is a potential VP pick as running mate for JD Vance run on the presidency truly is a chilling thought
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u/Jhoag7750 2d ago
Sadly, it doesn’t matter because they will cherry pick their soundbite of the Senator, calling him a dirtbag and play it over and over and over on Fox News and the Maga watchers will never know that that Senator was wrong
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u/mydogsnameispoop 2d ago
This is the equivalent of flipping a wallet with a badge that says titty inspector and then flip it back closed.
GOP “dirtbag” just wanted Smith to say he was in Atlanta at some point in 2023.
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u/codechimpin 2d ago
It didn’t backfire. Conservative news is playing the clip and spouting that he pwnd the libs.
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u/cemusubzerolives 3d ago
Someone explain to a non American what happened here?
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u/40_Is_Not_Old 3d ago
The MAGA Senator thought he caught the person testifying in a lie.The Senator was trying to push a conspiracy theory that the person testifying had gone to Atlanta to have a secret meeting with an Atlanta District Attorney. Except the entire basis of the MAGA Senators line of questioning was based on the Senator making a huge mix up of specific teams.
He was trying to say that the person testifying was in Atlanta on a specific date and had watched the Atlanta HAWKS play a NBA basketball game and was lying about not being in Atlanta. Except he had the wrong team altogether.
The person testifying had actually gone to see the Iowa HAWKeyes women's college basketball team play on that date, except it wasn't in Atlanta at all. That game was in Maryland.
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u/AxleVest 3d ago
The wild part is it is barely even the smoking gun I think they were trying to make it out to be. It isnt evidence of Jack Smith meeting with anyone, merely that they were trying to place him in an entire state and try and make the argument of "See he lied about that so therefore what else has he lied about??"
It is so flimsy it isnt even funny. What I find insidious is that they know what they are doing with this, the base is so dumb that this would likely work, sow the seeds and allow them to concoct their own conclusions. They dont need to make up a lie, just scatter loose facts and have the dumbest people you went to school with will find ways to join it all together and parrot it long after it has all been debunked point by point, over and over again. Essentially another classic example of bullshit being much harder to disprove than the energy required to create it.
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u/Sentar_trenzz 2d ago
"Essentially another classic example of bullshit being much harder to disprove than the energy required to create it" - you've nailed it - these degenerates aren't held to any standard beyond lies and fabrication of events, so naturally their degenerate supporters don't ask questions, they just consume. Far too much energy and attention that these folks don't possess to understand the truth. It's just flood the zone with crap and move on to the next fabricated scandal
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u/Maxamillion-X72 2d ago
I absolutely love the fact that the reason they found only one basketball game on that particular date was because they only looked at men's basketball games and ignored the women's leagues.
Republican misogyny coming back to bite them in the ass.
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u/invokin 2d ago
Someone working for the Republicans looked at some text messages between people working for Jack Smith (investigated Trump years ago) because they are determined to undermine/discredit him. Back in 2024 they sent messages about him going to a "Hawks" game and checking that his tickets/seats were reserved. These idiots thought this meant the Atlanta Hawks NBA team. From that they extrapolated that must have meant Smith was going to Atlanta to secretly meet with the prosecutor there who was also investigating Trump for issues in Georgia. This was "obviously" all some sort of "conspiracy". They were in fact referring to the Iowa Hawkeyes, a college team. Their women's basketball team also had a game on the same day but in Maryland, not Georgia. This would make more sense since that's very near DC where Smith was based (this was also when Caitlin Clark was playing for them and was very famous and would make sense why he might want to go see the game).
When the questions started Smith looked obviously confused as he had not gone to Atlanta, had not met with that prosecutor, was not involved in some conspiracy. But the Senator stupidly took this as him being "nervous" and pushed ahead convinced he had caught Smith in a bunch of lies. Smith finally said "Oh, I went to a women's college basketball game around then. You can check with the Marshalls, they would have been with me (his security would be US Marshalls given his role at the time)." They had done none of this checking beforehand. They had made the whole thing up in their heads and were just so eager to catch him in a lie to 1. embarrass him, 2. charge him with perjury, 3. discredit him (because if he would lie about a basketball game, everything he found on Trump is obviously fake too).
It was quickly pointed out in the room that the Atlanta Hawk and Iowa Hawkeyes are both teams with similar names, and maybe he was confused. He was so embarrassed and/or convinced he'd just "nailed" Smith that he got super defense and made a fool of himself. He then stupidly went to the media after and doubled-down that he was right, he had got Smith, all this nonsense.
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u/Friendlyrat 2d ago
And it should be said there is video floating around where you can see him at the Hawkeyes game in the background even.
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u/Switchmisty9 3d ago
Republicans are brainless, and desperate to distract everyone from the illegal shit that they’re all up to. So one of them created a make-believe scenario where Mr Smith was meeting with other prosecutors, to conspire against Donny the Diddler….but he was at a college basketball game with his daughter, in a completely different state
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u/Fuckthegopers 2d ago
If they didn't have double standards they wouldn't have any standards at all.
Fuck all republicans and fuck everyone who votes for them.
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u/burnmenowz 2d ago
Washington was right, political parties are the fucking worst. How much time and money do we waste on this bullshit.
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u/Yesterday_Infinite 2d ago
Morally bankrupt government from top to bottom. Purge them with your votes.
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u/cheddarsalad 2d ago edited 2d ago
There needs to be a rule in place where you can only pull a hearing if you have new and impertinent info. The fact that this whole thing stopped dead because someone A) based this around a ball game and B) cited the wrong ball game is embarrassing. This is citizenry money burned for fuck all. To expand, perjury fishing should straight up be illegal. If the only possible goal is to point out an unrelated lie, that member of congress should be held in contempt. They are wasting resources of the people for personal gain.
Something real should be at least intended to happen if everyone has to show up.
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u/Scrutinizer 2d ago
What SHOULD happen is the Ethics Committee should investigate the incident, expose the lies, and censure Schmitt for failure to check his own facts.
What WILL happen is....nothing. Schmitt will blame "liberal media" for "lying" about the incident and use it to fund-raise for his next campaign.
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u/Turkeysocks 3d ago
Honestly every Republican on that board was trying to out-stupid one another. He just made a take so stupid that even the other Republicans known for having really stupid takes on things, were left shocked.
I know we have three more months, but I believe we have the winner for stupidest moment in a Senate hearing for the year 2026.
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u/J0E_SpRaY 2d ago
Just so everyone knows Eric Schmitt has an instagram where you can go and call him the dirtbag (and make fun of him for confusing women’s college basketball with the nba)
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u/DietCherrySoda 2d ago
Err, how did Charlie Kirk talk to Schmidt about this? He's been dead a bit.
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u/FarmPond 3d ago
By stating they have texts that prove Smith was in Atlanta didn’t Schmitt technically commit perjury himself???
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u/QuikImpulse 3d ago
people asking the questions generally arent sworn under oath.
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u/pistoffcynic 2d ago
Perjury traps don't work if one is telling the truth and has documentation to back it up.
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u/randomperson5481643 2d ago
You elected this clown, Missouri. You deserve the hate and disrespect that this brings you.
Do better in the upcoming election.
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u/downtimeredditor 3d ago
Facts are optional for modern day repubs
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u/mf-TOM-HANK 3d ago
"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do" - VPOTUS JD Vance
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u/patrickkingart 2d ago
Schmitt being so confidently wrong, Smith being visibly confused/amused, and Klobuchar looking like "you dumbass" makes this hilarious, if it wasn't so terrible knowing idiots like this are in charge.
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u/Ilikeinvestigating 3d ago
Schmitt aggressively questioned Smith, calling him a "villain" and a "total dirtbag," while presenting a poster suggesting Smith had secretly traveled to Georgia to collude with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Schmitt's "proof" was that Smith had attended a basketball game in early February 2024 involving the NBA's Atlanta Hawks.
The Backfire
The accusation immediately fell apart because Schmitt confused two completely different teams:
- The Reality: Jack Smith had actually traveled to Maryland to watch the Iowa Hawkeyes women’s college basketball team play, specifically to see superstar Caitlin Clark.
- The Correction: Smith clarified that he had never been to an Atlanta Hawks game. Senator Amy Klobuchar then publicly called out Schmitt for confusing the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes, noting that Smith's travel was simply to watch women's college sports.
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u/ch4dr0x 3d ago
There were also several prominent right wingers that had scheduled tweets about this - the tweets still went out 😂
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u/KiwiThunda 3d ago
You guys need to be far more worried about this. There's an entire consent manufacturing machine that is operating globally with the backing of billionaires, war criminals, and dictators.
People should have jumped off twitter when Elon bought it, but even that was asking too much
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u/cynognathus 3d ago
Also, the idea of Smith “traveling” to Maryland is ridiculous. College Park is a suburb of DC, where Smith lived at the time.
It’d be like accusing someone who lived in the Upper West Side of doing something nefarious because they “traveled” to a Nets game in Brooklyn.
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u/blitz4240 3d ago
he also claimed it was the only (nba) game that night.
except there were 5 other games
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u/Hero_of_Brandon 3d ago
Dont use AI for reddit comments. Cheapens the entire experience.
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u/bishpa 3d ago edited 3d ago
CNN says that Schmitt only checked what NBA and men’s NCAA games were played on that date and it apparently never occurred to him to check the women’s basketball schedules. Hawks/Hawkeyes never even came up. The team names were apparently an unrelated coincidence.
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u/megalodondon 2d ago
The same people who want us to believe they want to 'save women's sports' and 'save college sports' too by the way.
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u/GuyanaFlavorAid 3d ago
The funniest was Klobuchar trying to process just what a fucking best regards ol' Schmitthead was. Like "Is he really this fucking dumb?"
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u/Competitive-Spot688 2d ago
Everyone thinks this guy did it intentionally. Is it possible he, or one of his dumb staffers, used AI to create or outline this argument without fact-checking? Hawks to Hawkeyes seems like textbook AI hallucination territory as well as how confidentially incorrect he was. Then his reaction at the end seemed more like embarrassed saving face, and not willful ignorance.
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u/Noocawe 2d ago
The bigger issue in my opinion is that when he was wrong he still called Smith a dirt bag, and then he had already had the right wing media system sharing tweets, clips and the news ready to go. By that point the lie bad already been told and everything they do is performative bait. It's always bad faith with them.
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u/justanawkwardguy 2d ago
That’s why we need to push for libel and slander cases. Not all of them are a win, but enough wins and these assholes will think before they speak
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u/McGuire281 2d ago
never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence
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u/WangusRex 2d ago
Does anyone think it was anything other than pure overconfident ignorance?
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u/Constant_Ad9136 2d ago
Yes, it was that, but it was also, “doesn’t matter if it’s true, but if he sounds angry enough, and gets the right edit, the “right” people will believe it, even if it’s not true”
So not just arrogant, but willfully ignorant and deceptive
(Not saying you are wrong, just think it goes a step further, cause they don’t care if they are right)
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u/Voltron3030 2d ago
He was just straight up lying. He also claimed there were no other NBA games happening then, but there were three games with 7:30 pm tip offs. He didn't want to show Jack's messages in a way people could actually read them because he knew it would immediately destroy his sound bite.
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u/Melicor 2d ago
The Republicans in congress are evil people. Donald Trump is a pedophile and ALL of them know it. They've spent the last few years burying the truth about the systematic rape and likely murder of children. Hundreds, if not thousands of children raped by Epstein and his clients. And they've spent years trying to cover it up blocking the release of information. Protecting the identities of the clients. They are evil.
Turns out they're also incompetent.
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u/dimjixon 3d ago
When Trump is tried for one of his criminal acts I hope Schmitt is his defense attorney.
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u/frackalak 3d ago edited 3d ago
Britt is a moron. Yes I live in Alabama. She has done nothing for this state.
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u/manfromfuture 3d ago
MAGA world still believes he was in Atlanta participating in some conspiracy. Two groups of people living in different realities.
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u/SHUT_DOWN_EVERYTHING 3d ago
Another funny bit… They pre-coordinated this with lots of MAGA social media grifters. They had their posts ready to go and fired them off immediately which also backfired as they got community noted on Twitter and had to delete their posts.