Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) is facing accusations he tried to launch a conspiracy tying former special counsel Jack Smith to others who prosecuted President Trump — a line of questioning that unwound when the senator apparently confused two basketball teams.
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“Somebody didn’t do their homework,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told The Hill.
“I’m a trial lawyer by profession. You get it right, or don’t do it.”
He. Does. Not. Care.
The sound bite is out there and the MAGATs will eat it up, regardless of how blatant and slanderous a lie it was.
I don’t think this went the way he thought it was going to go. He’s gone viral, but not the way he wanted. He looks like a complete and utter imbecile
Honestly, I’m not sure.
I don’t have the intestinal fortitude to brave Elon’s safe space to see, but we know Benny Johnson and other astroturf MAGA repeaters tweeted preemptive false signal boosts about perjury before the confrontation was even over, and bias-reinforcing readers will never watch a 5-minute clip and understand it, or see the same factual reporting we saw. And even with some taking down their “gotcha” posts, they wouldn’t in a million years issue a correction or apology. Newsmax and Fox just will quietly not report on it.
I’m guessing it was enough to become more permanent evidence of the deep state for a lot of MAGA people.
They saw Hawks and stopped paying attention. Didn’t matter if it was in a different state, played by a different gender, and totally different level. But close enough.
And a different word.
Men’s pro ball. Women’s college ball. Surely anyone could make that mistake.
I will say that Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) does accurately represent my old stomping grounds.
Hey now, I feel like the good senator, E. Schmitt should be given a chance to explain himself. {what’s that, you say he was given the chance, but declined to explain?} Right, ok, well, he’s a little putz who can’t even explain when he makes a mistake, nor can he apologize instead falling back on name calling. truly ROTFLOL. What a self own!
he’s a little putz who can’t even explain when he makes a mistake, nor can he apologize instead falling back on name calling.
This is typical behavior for a malignant narcissist. They’re always right, you’re always wrong, and if you point out they’re wrong somehow they’ll turn it around and blame you.
His lackluster, average American reading level response:
“We had information, of course, about him being at a basketball game,” the Missouri Republican told Nexstar affiliate KTVI St. Louis later Tuesday. “The only NBA game going on that night was in Atlanta on Feb. 2 of 2024. His team had talked about that. He answered the question.”
“My job is to ask the questions, and his job is to answer the questions,” he added.
It turns out that the community long found on Reddit and also in the Fediverse is totally wrong.
There ARE some stupid questions.
I know it’s not just me? I mean if it was my job to ask questions of possibly The Top Prosecutor in the country, I sure would want to make sure to ask the right questions. Schmitt made himself a laughing stock. smh
Oh gosh. He faces fallout? Scary…
Hopefully a deathclaw, or at least radscorpions and ghouls.
When will the American public reckon with how colossally unintelligent the Republicans are?
It’s literally their platform: that “elites” (which by their definition is anyone with any kind of education or expertise in an area) are evil. Meanwhile, rich people are to be worshipped.
This is exactly what Republican government looks and acts like.
