Welcome to the Eric Schmitt Clown Show: GOP Missouri Senator opens mouth, inserts foot

 

 Don't you just love it when this kind of stupid shit happens to GOP sycophants.

Headline:  New York Times, 9/29/2026

Devlin Barrett and Charlie Savage report on the effects of Jack Smith Derangement Syndrome on the GOP:

It was meant to be a dramatic confrontation, a public accusation of perjury against Jack Smith, the special counsel who investigated Donald J. Trump. Instead, Senator Eric Schmitt’s amateur sleuthing into basketball led him to the wrong game, league and state. 

During a four-hour Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Mr. Schmitt, a Republican from Missouri, struck a conspiratorial tone and asked Mr. Smith if he had attended an Atlanta Hawks home game in February 2024. 

Mr. Schmitt focused on the basketball game in the hopes that he could show Mr. Smith had perjured himself and was involved in a conspiracy with local Atlanta prosecutors to ensnare Mr. Trump. In a hearing where Republicans repeatedly accused Mr. Smith of lying, what Mr. Schmitt first presented as smoking-gun evidence against Mr. Smith turned out to be a misfire. [emphasis added]

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