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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

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@firbirdnc.bsky.social

They will let pretty much anyone be a Senator these days 🤦‍♀️ I thought Tommy “Furries” Tuberville was the stupidest Senator, but Schmitt giving him a run for his money today.

Not going back! 💥
@fwander.bsky.social

Holy shit. The level of incompetence on public display by the GOP is astounding. Making false & serious accusations against Jack Smith because they can't even do something as simple as fact check the name of a basketball team. And then memorize their stupidity on a posterboard. What a cluster fuck.

John
@spiffzilla.bsky.social

Smith: “The president is trying to take over the United States.” Performative R: “Hah, you weren’t at the basketball game you said you were at!”

Poor Pirate Propagandist
@graveyard-jones.bsky.social

Fuck an apology, he should be removed from his seat and never allowed back in government They're trying to put Smith in prison for a very long time on false information. The fact that nothing will happen to him for this is fucking crazy

LethalDose50
@lethaldose50.bsky.social

Calling a prosecutor of war criminals a “dirtbag” after a giant fuckup. What a self own. Defending war criminals Defending pedophiles The GOP defending the indefensible for the past 10 years

Rebecca Kennison
@rrkennison.bsky.social

Most hilarious was Schmitt saying, "I don't think you realize we have this stuff" -- when he didn't even have the name of the team right, much less where they were playing!

Neil Turkewitz
@neilturkewitz.bsky.social

She’s only partly right. It doesn’t just deserve an apology. Senator Schmitt deserves to be censured. He openly & directly accused Jack Smith of perjury, & then went on The Charlie Kirk show to celebrate. Is that not the very definition of conduct that’s inappropriate or detrimental to the Senate?

A. Sharpie
@asharpie.bsky.social

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SCHMITT: Mr. Smith, did you attend a Green Bay Packers game? SMITH: No. but I once rode in a Packard at a classic car show. SCHMITT: So you admit it! SMITH: I admit I rode in a Packard. SCHMITT: And was that in Green Bay? SMITH: No. SCHMITT: But it could have been? AM I CORRECT??!!

KevinC
@kevinceee.bsky.social

Wikipedia is already on it! Eric Stephen Schmitt is an American attorney and politician serving since 2023 as the junior United States senator from Missouri. Schmitt does not know the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Rick 🇺🇦
@rlmarley.bsky.social

It is time that Senators are placed under oath when they present information during a hearing. Make it a criminal offense for them to lie as well as the witness.

David Bonowitz
@dbonowitz.bsky.social

Wait, is this what the Protect College Sports Act was about? Sorry, it's all so confusing. Seriously, imagine the days of hearings these fools would need if it had been Wildcats v. Tigers.

Trevor Foster
@darthfos.bsky.social

A proper chairman would make Schmitt apologize & retract his knowingly false allegations but they won't because they got their short viral moment that the right will put out on blast. This is why there needs to be reforms & actual consequences for Senators who do this kind of garbage.

RevKurt
@revkurt1.bsky.social

Including term limits. Geeze, what is Grassley, 93? My 91 year old mother is still able to do ADLs, read paper, do Sudoku. But lead a committee of the Senate? BTW, my mom back in day chaired meetings at Fort Campbell for Military Assistance for Safety and Traffic ( MAST). Now, at 91, no way.

delovelly.bsky.social
@delovelly.bsky.social

Everybody’s excited about “it was the Hawkeyes!” which is pretty sweet but just as delicious was “I was a prosecutor – that’s not how you display evidence.” No wonder Eric got so emotional! 😂

jack185.bsky.social
@jack185.bsky.social

Now I understand why Sen. Schmitt is a former Prosecutor. Typical Congress Critter. Can't do the job in the real world, so let's get elected to Congress and live off the taxpayers.

Slouchyr
@slouchyr.bsky.social

schmitt couldn't blame the Holy Golfing Emperor who gave him the info. was trump setting up his little "Mo toady" to embarrass himself? surely the greatest white house staff ever wouldn't make such a stupid mistake, had to be intentional.

meekman.bsky.social
@meekman.bsky.social

This is wild. It proves once again that these Republican senators are trash. He should be ashamed of himself for attacking and lying against Mr Smith. He should be made to take the statement back and apologize.

gcnielsen.bsky.social
@gcnielsen.bsky.social

In America, being a lying asshole is less dangerous to his career as a Senator than being an Alpha Male who doesn’t know shit about sports. “He’s the kinda guy you can have a Zima with in the clubhouse after a round of golf” doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Paul "Kabuki" Kasprzak
@pakasprz.bsky.social

Every single response to Schmitt just keeps getting better and better. You know Kimmel and Fallon are going to rip this guy a new one. This is just so mind boggling stupid. It is something right out of a Three Stooges episode.

BethE🦋
@beth-e.bsky.social

Especially when Jack Smith mentioned a female basketball player! (HINT,HINT) to Schmitt! Klobuchar got the reference but Schmitt doubled down on his confused false accusation. GOP traitors blinded by corruption

Rewa
@rainbowpray.bsky.social

Compare Klobuchar and Schmitt, who is more emotional? They say women cant lead. He came in with fake information, called a public servant dirtbag, and implied something that never happened. Klobuchar hit him with the truth while being composed and used adult language in a hearing.

IronSac
@ironsac.bsky.social

Not sure who still says women can’t lead! Women are just as capable than men. I keep seeing this. Who the hell says that. Sad.

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars)
@08mms.bsky.social

A college baseball/football player (Eric Schmidt- Truman State) probably doesn’t make that mistake in his own, so I’ll bet he relied on his dweeby young republican staff who just made him look like a giant idiot. GOP hasn’t really reconciled on the long term effect of weirdo groyper and dork staffs

Will Pullinen
@willpullinen.bsky.social

They're just gonna clip it, edit it and spread it online and in ads with dramatic gotcha music. And unfortunately with political and media literacy being as low as it is in America, millions will gobble it up as proof of Jack Smith being guilty.

Loops
@mad4sci.bsky.social

Calling smith a dirtbag and prematurely concluding that he was a perjurer were the sound bites he needed to prove his trumpist bonafides!

Hedy Lamarr
@chudonew.bsky.social

Racist Liar Eric Schmitt Please Contact Dirt Bag Sen Schmitt 201 W Capitol Ave., Rm. 320 Jefferson City, MO 573-751-2853 eschmitt@senate.mo.gov DC: 202-224-5721 Sen Eric Schmitt:"America is a country for white people descended from European settlers" share.google/HpZQtpoB8xUh...

share.googleCommentary: Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt openly promoted white supremacism in a public speech • Missouri IndependentMissouri Senator Eric Schmitt suggested true Americans are “the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe’s shores.”
jane57lisa
@jane57lisa.bsky.social

He deserves to be banished from the hearing! A sitting US Senator maligned and lied about Smith and called him a dirtbag. That demends more than an apology. Schmitt should be ejected and not allowed back into the hearing. When did Congress stop believing in accountability?

stucktx1.bsky.social
@stucktx1.bsky.social

When we started electing fools for congress. Republican Party has shown its ass to the electorate. When trump is gone and these same republican fools try to change their spots, remember who they are.

jane57lisa
@jane57lisa.bsky.social

Oh you can count on it. I will never forget. I don't care how worthy some future Republican might seem, I will never ever vote for a Republican for any position, not even garbage collector

Morgan
@larubia22.bsky.social

I believe the year was 2015, when we heard the Access Hollywood tape, when he bragged sexual assault. Accountability went straight out the window, quickly followed by any shared values, and now Democracy. You can thank MAGA.

A. Nobody
@nowhereismyhome.bsky.social

Maga conspiracy theories. 6 degress of Fani Willis. Only Maga could accuse you of being in Atlanta when you’re taking your kid to a game in Maryland. FFS

AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸
@joemcjoe11.bsky.social

Eddie is a turd. He was sooooo damn smug. He was sure he caught Jack in a lie. He even called him a dirtbag. He's the funny part, he was thinking he might be considered for a VP choice. Guess what, not anymore, dirtbag.

Donna C
@free2b.bsky.social

You think MAGA is going to care that he was humiliated on the national stage? That happens to them every day. They'll ignore it like they ignore everything else, and say it's a lib conspiracy. MAGA will go right along. It's a sickness.

Logan Five
@logan-5.bsky.social

I will note with irony that they were talking about a men’s NBA game versus the actual women’s college game. So they managed to get the gender wrong as well 🤣

True Booooo Majority 🎃🎃🎃
@truebluemajority.bsky.social

The staff deserves credit for the research and getting the facts so quickly. But what I am most impressed with is the powerful and insistent way Klobuchar presented the information to the hearing, and firmly held her ground against Rcon attempts to overpower her right to speak.

Andy Olsen
@andyo.bsky.social

Eric Schmitt should henceforth be referred to as Dirtbag. Or, Senator Dirtbag, if you're into the whole respect the office thing.

Phil
@philip-bidwell.bsky.social

And of course the best conspiracies involve interstate travel to a public event with 10s of thousands of people when a phone would would have been sufficient

Funk Dr
@funkdr.bsky.social

He repeatedly accused Smith of perjuring himself, which seems an even bigger deal than calling him a dirtbag I’m so fucking embarrassed by this country every day

FilmAlicia
@filmalicia.bsky.social

All lying propaganda by Schmitt. It doesn’t have to be based on any evidence or facts because the purpose is to spread lies about Jack Smith.

Otis Redfoot
@otisredfoot.bsky.social

He had an interview lined up right after with The Charlie Kirk Show and Anderson 360 after this Gotcha moment. He was so proud of connecting these dots like a child that shit next to the toilet.

Local Resister
@projectspacetime.bsky.social

Guaranteed it is working. There is no Dem owned or operated propaganda network. There is only a Right wing one. They can frame/message anything they want. And it will not be anything based on reality. It doesn’t need to be based on reality. It just needs to be propaganda.

sbharvey.bsky.social
@sbharvey.bsky.social

After Amy Klobuchar questioning of Jack Smith, called out Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), Sen. Cory Booker called out the absurdity of the hearing. Watch Lawrence O'donnell LW or youtube replay, Watch it, it's priceless.