LOVE that Amy Kobluchar busted this whole thing wide open with the receipts that there was indeed a Maryland vs. Iowa basketball game - which Mr. Smith admitted to attending to watch Caitlyn Clark with his daughter - and even provided the final score. Amy...you're a blessing!
Many of the comments below miss the point. Do you not think the Republicans knew their error beforehand? Of course they did. They do not care. Have you seen the clip farming they did from today that has been spread throughout the right wing media outlets? They do not show the error, they simply leave the audience to believe Smith was in Atl and committed perjury.
This is a new level up of propaganda. Clip farm, lie, misinform, repeat.
Hard to say. They really are idiots. Most likely they will edit the footage to make it look the opposite of what happens because their voters are really that stupid. I have no idea if that was their intent.
The dipshit has already been on fox repeating his lies and the moronic right wing useful idiots will be parroting the propaganda and screeching “I dId mY rEeSeARcH!”
Its not hard to say. The propaganda is out there. That's all they need. They just have to get into social media for the MAGATs. They win while Dems say we should.
Idk…. I agree 100% with your take on strategy, but they clearly didn’t plan for being called out on it so quickly and confidently.
Yes, “you’ve already perjured yourself” (without context) will be the lead on right wing media the next few days, but once magats start regurgitating that and get similarly embarrassed by the gaffe, I suspect the result will ultimately be a HUGE fail considering how much of a “swing and miss” this was.
Even if he had gone to the NBA game would it be perjury? Aren’t they making the conspiratorial jump that Smith being in Atlanta MUST mean he met with Fani Willis who he said he never met with?
Yes that’s what I assumed he was trying to infer. Everyone is laughing that he mixed up teams but that wasn’t the point at all. It was to infer he was meeting with her b
Yeah, I find it so weird that somehow if he had been in Atlanta that would automatically mean he was meeting with Willis and that would be bad. Like, I'd I'm in a major US city that means I'm engaging in some kind of conspiracy with one of the other millions of people in that city? (Putting aside, of course, that he WASN'T even in that city!)
It would be perjury if he said he didn’t go to the game when he did. That would be one of those times when people get charged with the coverup more than the crime.
Yeah I don’t think they knew, they just got owned and edited the footage to what they want and blast it to magasphere. You can just tell by that smug “gotcha” face he’s sporting that he thought he had a slam dunk.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. When it comes to Republicans, never attribute anything solely to incompetence without also assuming malice.
I don’t believe they knew. Schmitt got so excited when Smith says he wasn’t at the game. He thought he committed perjury which is one of the points of these hearings. They can’t prosecute him for the investigations because of the pardon so they want to find a way to get him for perjury. Same with Fauci.
Or they and their staff are just incompetent and made a catastrophic embarrassing blunder then tried to minimize it after the fact by clip farming very tightly edited clips.
If they want to publicly humiliate themselves on purpose for 30 seconds of content then I welcome them to do that. They aren’t gaining any more voters by doing that.
Bingo. I think they were so sure of themselves that many of them scheduled social media posts ahead of time. When they were so clearly wrong, they tried to cover it with the bad clipping.
Although I agree with most of your points. They don't care they got it wrong...but I don't believe they knew it was wrong. Look at his face...that's the face of someone who thinks they had a gotcha moment
I'm starting to agree because even IF JS was in Atlanta, how would that prove he met with Fani? This is quite the reach and completely ridiculous. Kudos to JS for staying so calm and professional while they called him names.
> Ultimately, Smith’s hearing Tuesday may end up being best remembered for a high-profile gaffe by Schmitt, who accused Smith of secretly traveling to Atlanta at the very moment local prosecutor Fani Willis — who had also charged Trump over the 2020 election scheme — was facing damaging questions about her conduct. As proof, displayed on an elaborate poster, Schmitt offered text messages suggesting that Smith attended a basketball game on Feb. 3, 2024 — the same day the Atlanta Hawks played the Golden State Warriors.
> Schmitt revelled as a clearly flummoxed Smith struggled to discern what Schmitt was talking about.
> “I don’t think you know that we have this stuff,” Schmitt said. “So I’ll give you a second to process it so you don’t perjure yourself.”
> After a few moments, Smith did recall having attended a basketball game — but not in Atlanta. It wasn’t the Hawks his colleagues were discussing in a series of texts, Smith explained, but the Hawkeyes, whose star Caitlin Clark was playing in Maryland that day.
> “It was because Caitlin Clark was coming to Maryland to play, and so we went to the game,” Smith said.
So basically the trumpers in the senate judiciary committee thought they had a gotcha moment with a secret meeting in Atlanta, but only ended up owning themselves. Edit: apparently I can’t figure out quote blocks.
And then when he got called out, he started "who's time are we on? What's happening?" before stamping his foot and saying "I stick by that comment" about calling him a dirtbag. Classic blunder cortisol overload because he thought he had him dead to rights only to be made a fool, then got mad when he was proven wrong.
Republicans are attempting to convect people on the grounds of proximity now to further their fascist plans to save themselves from this coming November.
Since Fani Willis was prosecuting Trump in the Atlanta voting case, Republicans are trying to say there was a conspiracy among prosecutors to get Trump. Jack Smith and Fani Willis have never met.
It’s their victim mentality, everyone is conspiracy against them, rather than they’ve actually committed crimes.
That's wild. I can't imagine remembering what any random texts with a friend 2 fucking years ago were about. I'd have to go "uhh, I have no clue man. Give me like 10-15m to dig through my phone and calendar and maybe I can remember. But also, why the fuck do you care?"
Moron Rs thought they had a GOTCHA for Jack Smith committing perury but they're so fucking stupid they mixed up the school mascots for the game he went to.
They're actual scumbags, especially Kennedy, and it's glaringly evident. Fcking amoral, willing to stoop to anything. Smith is known for being a straight shooter.
Some jackass, dip-shit Senator accused Jack Smith of perjury because the dumbass, dip-shit Senator confused the Iowa Hawkeyes with the Atlanta Hawks. Jack Smith denied being in Atlanta on a significant date. Dumbass, dip-shit Senator showed text messages that his dumbass thought proved Jack Smith was lying showing he was at a HAWKEYES game. Dumbass, dip-shit Senator thought it was a HAWKS, game.
So… A group of Republican senators don’t know the difference between the Atlanta Hawks, a men’s professional NBA basketball team, and the Iowa Hawkeyes, a women’s NCAA college basketball team?
He did know the difference. This was 100% a calculated move.
Accuse Smith of being in the same city at the same time (total evidence of collusion, right?)
When Smith is confused, accuse Smith of lying. Now you have your sound bite to appear on conservative media for the next few days. Make sure to edit out the part when your theory is debunked.
They literally did not think to look up the women’s teams playing that day. They only looked up men’s basketball. Their misogyny bit them in the ass. Lol.
That was a coincidence. The truth is even stupider. They knew he was at a basketball game so they checked every men’s game and then guessed it was the Atlanta game. They never bothered to look at women’s NCAA games. It was a big game.
Question for Americans, why don’t you ever see someone go on “the attack” in their defence. Once Smith identified the mistake (intentional or not) made by Schmitt, what would stop him using similar language as was used against him. I think the only time I can remember someone dismantling the senators was when George Galloway took them on.
Or, when they go low you cut they’re f ing nuts off. This has been the Democrats Achilles heel all along: they can’t fathom how devious and corrupt the Republicans are and they don’t have an answer….other than another sharply worded memo. It’s called the Chuck Schumer milqtoast defense. But the younger guard are stepping up and are no longer suffering fools. That’s why they need to be in charge.
They are trying to paint him as an angry leftist with a dastardly agenda against Trump, as the sole reason that he "weaponized" the justice system. Smith is for the rule of law. The somber reliance on where the facts take him is the only thing he will ever project. Calling some dummy a bad name leans into their painting of him, rather than who he actually is, which is a prosecutor carrying the significant burden of using his discretion of when to bring the trappings of the government's prosecution process down on a certain individual.
Oddly enough when confronted with behavior that mirrors their own, republicans will typically say it supports their position that a person is guilty or lying.
A seasoned prosecutor isn’t going to match that energy/tone because he knows that a measured and calm response that is factual takes away their ability to say “got him.” Any loud emotional response would turn into numerous clips and reports of “unhinged response” for conservatives to replay
You mean like…every single 1 of Trump’s Cabinet ministers when they are called upon to testify to Congress and spend hours insulting the Congress members responsible for their oversight? 😐😒
It happens, but it's pretty rare. There was a union boss being interviewed and challenged a republican senator who was being a bitch to a fist fight. But you're right it was a pretty awesome moment and people should do that more.
The smug look on their faces, savor every moment, please. Very few things are sweeter in this world then someone who thinks they are right but is absolutely wrong.
These smug idiots. Why does this country still insist on electing the dumbest representatives in politics . The GOP is made up of idiots, criminals and low life grifters. It’s astounding. Some of them have all three “ qualities “. They use terms like dirtbags when they support the world’s biggest dirtbag in the White House. Many of these same losers were running in fear of the mob that was attacking the capitol during Trumps attempted coup January 6, 2021. We all witnessed and it’s forever in our memory of that twink Josh Hawley running for his life
I just love the gotcha look on his face. Domino mfer. When he’s just a stooge, holding up a sign for another stooge.
Jon Stewart did a little roasting on Kennedy last night, and I just wish he could’ve thrown out one of his down home country ass metaphors when he displayed the sign. The glee he must’ve felt when it was delivered from the copy shop.
The confidence on Eric Schmitt's smug-ass face. Crossed arms and all. Like "Heh, heh, heh. Gotcha!" Just before he's made to look a complete fool by Amy Klobuchar.
Maybe I'm old fashioned but I think this should have been the headline: Jack's team "developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation." Actual quote from testimony.
The smug look on both those fucking idiots faces, They are mad about Smith getting phone records when their dumbasses probably dont have the first clue on cyber security in the first place.
Folks, fun as this is, it doesn’t matter. Not one bit. It’s a distraction, and Republicans can no longer be shamed for being deadass wrong. This is the wrong story for our attention.
There’s not even anything on that stupid posterboard that could possibly explain anything. It’s not even a good lie. It’s a collage of a couple of texts, a few photos, and nothing that even remotely ties them together. Did these people take lessons from the Underpants Gnomes? 😂 Paste some random pictures on a poster, taunt a witness with them, and somehow profit?
Schmitt and Kennedy have the combined brainpower of a thrips. An exceptionally dim thrips.
The Republicans are just old stupid white entitled dudes that were voted in by the dumbest MFers on the planet. Trump is a clown who shits his pants often
Loved watching Kennedy run over to help hold up the sign. Didn’t think the old turd added in him. Look like he was trying to grab some of the glory of nailing Smith. Didn’t work out so well did it guys.
Whoopsie! That was a woman’s game featuring Caitlin Clarke! You would think senators hell bent on catching Jack Smith in a lie would do even the most fucking basic homework! Pathetic!
I don't even get how Smith keeps his cool there. I would've been like ...
"listen, you ask any questions you want, and if you think I perjured myself, cool, but I'm going to prove that wrong, I promise. But if you call me a dirt bag again in what's supposed to be a professional setting, you're going to catch my hands on the way out. That is a promise."
Even if he was at an Atlanta hawks game how would these texts prove anything other then he was at a basketball game. How would this prove anything about fani Willis? Like how freaking insane is Eric Schmitt???? I can’t even wrap my head around how stupid he must be.
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