Sen. Eric Schmitt confuses Atlanta Hawks with Iowa Hawkeyes at Jack Smith hearing
Sen. SCHMITT: We have texts saying you attended an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith: I believe it was a Maryland-Iowa game. Sen. KLOBUCHAR: The Iowa HAWKeyes. Perhaps the Senator from Missouri should have looked at these texts more carefully.
Emily156Schmitt thought he was Benoit Blanc but came off sounding like Beavis and Butthead.
Lysander101Clear screenshot 👇 from @atrupar.com 🙏
iwillbe9.bsky.social88I love how cocky Schmitt acts while still being completely WRONG. Such typical republican arrogance blended with incompetence!
Lisa LaRue51Why is there no disciplinary action against Schmidt for this obvious lie?
David Walker41ERIC is an INCOMPETENT SMUG CLOWN. Missouri deserves better. Harry Truman is rolling in his grave.
philmorton24.bsky.social35Politico is growing on me. Great headline.
Brady Klopfer9Gotta feel bad for Jack Smith here. Steph Curry dropped 60 in the Hawks game that he didn't even get to go to.
Ducking Wilder 🔱🐐3Yes, the GOP is filled with stupid, incompetent scoundrels. And those who continue to vote for GOP candidates? It’s a wonder the can even feed themselves.
Thinkerbelle2I bet they could find my messages about a Hawks game too. I don’t live in Atlanta, although I hear it’s nice. Seattle is my hometown.
Rob Tracinski2This is good, but if I were Klobuchar, I would have advised Schmitt to throw a stapler at his staffers for screwing up like this.
Bouvier Mom2Jack Smith went to see the MAGA sweetheart, Catlin Clark he wasn't meeting Fani Willis to plot your destruction, dumbass.
Naturally, when Amy Klobuchar tries to politely point out to Eric Schmitt that the entire premise of his grand conspiracy on Jack Smith might be mistaken because he was confusing the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes, Schmitt interrupts and starts yelling at Klobuchar. MAGA!
Shirley Meerson22Happened to see this moment - Klobuchar was excellent 👏 This entire scenario is beyond pathetic 🤮
ReMarkable18Democrats are going to have to learn that the time for being polite is way over. We need to get angry and drop some F bombs. That also has a way of making news across multiple media channels. 
Jay Lionel15If your argument has been destroyed or debunked, surgically or with a sledgehammer JUST SHOUT. You’ll be fine. White entitled old men 101.
Fella Historian🌻14Maybe Senator Schmitt didn't watch enough Sesame Street when he was a kid🤷♀️
voyageurs59.bsky.social12He acted like a crazed, abusive jerk! She calmly destroyed his grand conspiracy. Very proud of my Senator!
Duris Non Frangor 📎 CAntiFa🍁12Never try to mansplain to a MAGAt. It threatens their masculinity.
Ian Miles Schlong42There’s never a reason to politely point out anything to a Republican. Yell at them. Shame them. Humiliate them. Be a fucking attack dog. Seize the narrative. Don’t let these traitors whimper away and try to save face on the Charlie Kirk show. Let the whole world know they’re fucking morons.
The Cat Mother10This is just one of the 100s of reasons why we despise MAGA!
Imagine Sen. Eric Schmitt R-MO thinking he had a 'gotcha' moment at a hearing with Jack Smith - "I think you've already perjured yourself" - and it turns out his staff doesn't know the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes - unbelievable.
Newell Baldelli26Then Eric Schmitt, R-MOron, goes on Newsmax & brags about how his questioning of Jack Smith was a slam dunk. Absolutely shameless, incompetent liars and #traitors to 🇺🇸
barrischiff.bsky.social17I wonder if they actually knew it wasn't true yet still tried to pull this fraud hoping it wouldn't be checked before the hearing was done.
Jeremy16Kinkos isn't going to give a refund for that poster, either. It's a bad day all around for the Schmitty crew.
Ron L12Text message on left mentioning sec 109 row 1 seat vs map on right of Atlanta Hawks arena showing their rows use the alphabet not numbers. These guys earn govt paychecks.
sasjaastad.bsky.social11Schmitt’s crash-and-burn… I heard it here in Seattle.
A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall10I see a lot of people blaiming interns... I have FULL faith that Schmitt was aware and did this intentionally. He did NOT want to leave that board up when asked.
Mark Thompson23And Schmitt will blame his staff, because he’s just an innocent little Senator reading a script and has no responsibility for fact checking.
John Andreini6This shouldn't surprise anyone. Ignorance is celebrated by the GOP. The less you know the better.
R🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🌻3And what did they think, he was in Atlanta to advise Willis on her scandal? The whole thing is stupid.
🍂k a r e n🍂2How embarrassing it must be to be a Republican!
Ponsonby Britt2I honestly wonder who in the GOP came up with the idea of putting a microphone in front of Smith again, and who else thought "Yeah, we'll nail him to the wall this time!"
I know this will shock everyone but Eric Schmitt is still wrong — there were *six* NBA games that night, not one. Hawks/Hawkeyes confusion remains the likely explanation. www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/?m...
Dan Murphy63"Finding out what the basketball schedule was on one night in 2024. That's what hearings are for."
Andy Pearlman51looks like there's footage of him at the Hawkeye game per NYT
sky bank27In a TMZ interview Schmitt keeps saying "it was the only basketball game, NBA or NCAA, with a 7:30 start time." But the game Smith was actually at didn't start at 7:30 so I don't know where they got the start time, and nowhere in the texts he presented does it even say basketball. They just assumed?
waxmonkey26there is almost never only one game
Sam Litzinger20The likely explanation is that Senator Schmitt is an idiot...
Bruce R McF (etc.)19"We thought that people only go to NBA games, we were not aware that some people go to college basketball games. It was an honest and totally relatable mistake."
Chris Kluwe65“I’m not owned” I yell as i slowly shrink into a corncob. “i’m not owned!”
Truther_Dare10lol. He’s lying to cover up the Hawkeyes/Hawks fuck up
kerrence7not a single one of these bozos knows ball. sad!
NBCs The Slap5Republican ball knowers think there’s any day in the NBA season where there’s just one game on
Snwdrft3Lying to cover his failures.
Drug Monkey2Ahaahahaha he can’t even lie his way out of his epic tap dance on his own junk…
Bert Gambit2has anyone mentioned how idiotic the not-even-a-theory would be if he had been at a game in Atlanta? like that’s proof that he… consulted with them about their affair? throupled with them? what? no, no, you see, someone you said you didn’t know made an announcement and you were nearby. checkmate
dhauge3x2Shame isn’t even a last resort, it’s simply not a feeling they know
Perhaps Senator Eric Schmitt was a little too hawkish during his questioning of Jack Smith today. After accusing the former special counsel of perjury over whether he’d been at a Hawks basketball game, Schmitt was hit with an awkward moment of live fact-checking.
Christine Swint16The senator dude has such a snotty attitude toward Jack Smith and Senator Klobuchar. He sneers with his “Gotcha!” pride in his voice, only to embarrass himself. In the privacy of his innermost soul he knows he’s hollow
Jack Kliever12Gets funnier every time I watch. Smith knew Schmitt had confused the Hawks and Hawkeyes almost immediately but encouraged him to keep ranting, setting up an easy dunk for Klobuchar. Jack is a great straight man.
notidefix.bsky.social11that whole exchange demonstrated that Eric Schmitt has NO shame
Prius Driving Liberal10Hawkish… great choice of words.
Just Lilo10This is the money shot for me- she is soo caught off guard. As though it was her team who didn't do the research.
Lemongrasshopper7He conducted that interrogation with the blind confidence of someone who just got an answer from ai & never used a single braincell to verify its accuracy.
glitterck.bsky.social7Lying liars and the lies they tell...
pud333.bsky.social4He was so excited thinking he got him, he mixed up the teams. Lol.
For the People2This fucker said he stands by his lies at the end. Just like they all stand by a conman
artiobishop.bsky.social2OMG. Eric Schmidt (R-MO) is such a buffoon! I grew up in Missouri, and this is so embarrassing. #GOPMorons #EricSchmidt
Even if eric schmitt big moment actually landed, what was his big smoking gun?? Jack Smith and Fani Willis being in Atlanta at the same time???
Akallabêth 🇺🇦10That’s enough for the Cult
ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected9Yea, it's just that stupid.
E Wade6Scmitt was acting as if he had a powerful follow-up photo of Smith, Willis and Wade tucked away in a corner at a restaurant or office having a discussion with documents and images on the table. Yet all he had was...
Skeptical Brotha 🏳️🌈5Guilt by association with Negroes? Schmitt is a white nationalist so actual proof isn't required for his condemnation.
Crudité for Everyone, but the testicles Are Extra4I think Katie Britt set this whole thing up so she could look "relatable"...
Blog for Iowa4They feel they win if they call Jack Smith a dirt bag on TV and everyone talks about it.
If you need to catch up on the whole controversy with GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt not knowing his sports and embarrassing himself while attempting to slander a public servant today, I made a 20 min. video explainer. Yes, 20 minutes. And I enjoyed the hell out of making it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfjN...
Baja Arizona. We fight on.4This is great entertainment in your evening hours. 😁 Thanks Charlotte for putting it on YouTube because a lot of us don't use Meta products.
mannofbeer.bsky.social3The funniest point- even if Smith had been in Atlanta, the day after Fani Willis admitted her affair, so what? It was a nothing burger from the start and just plain stupid afterwards
Thomas Beck3in addition to Schmitt’s own bumptiousness, this is a massive failure of his staff. there’s no way any competent office should have missed any of this. or imagined they wouldn’t be found out.
cleopete2He knew what he was doing, kinda. He clearly figured he could make shit up, flash a bogus poster board and plant a seed of doubt. But Schmitt is also a fucking moron, so...
Elisa 🌶️🥔2I watched it earlier. Excellent coverage of the entire debacle. The best part was the look on KB’s face.
W. K.2Thank you, that was fun especially seeing the close-up of the female senator's face.
Man if Eric Schmitt were capable of feeling anything resembling shame just think about how rough his night would be
Brooke10The general public will just have to make up for his lack of shame in wedgies
Bryan Hoover1Bad night to be an empath, I tell you
Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast1what about just general embarrassment
Brian Riley1Pretty sure whatever would pass for shame is probably being funneled into a hissy fit directed at staffers.
cameronpoe86.bsky.social1Oh boy, let me tell you about the most important requirement of being a republican in 2026….
Senator Eric Schmidt Putz You owe Jack Smith an apology and a big THANK YOU @amyklobuchar.com SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR WOMEN KNOW
Ms. Good Trouble2He convicted him before he had the facts. What a jerk! Besides humiliating himself, he told everyone on national tv how inept he is.
Andy Heppelle🇺🇸🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇬🇱🇺🇳🏳️⚧️1Thank you @klobuchar.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com for laying out what has been happening at US DOJ to those that were assigned to prosecute January 6, 2021 criminals, including prosecuting the case against the felon currently occupying the U.S. White House. Thanks @judiciarydems.senate.gov #Hawkeyes
Bro Theo1Dirt bags tend to gaffe
Jack Smith cracks down as MAGA senator attacks wife: 'Not going to speak about my family' www.rawstory.com/jack-smith-2...
Jukesgrrl2Can't one of the other Senators tell Sen. Kennedy to STFU? Repeatedly harassing Smith about his wife is out of line when he's repeatedly said he wouldn't answer questions about his family.
Buddy Spell1Having just completed a nearly 40 year career as a felony defense attorney, I'm here to tell you that Jack Smith is no "dirt bag". The vast majority of federal prosecutors I have litigated against are among the best & the brightest. They were my opposition, not my enemies. The DOJ is dead. RIP.
Did everyone notice who was holding the other end of the Senator Schmitt's poster? Good old Southern Boy, lip-smacking Senator Kennedy. He had no idea he was joining in on Schmitt's face plant. Karma.
Donna41152Foghorn Leghorn 🐓 grabbed the shitty end of the stick. 💩 Very funny! I’m betting he’ll go on Faux News to cover himself. GET REGISTERED! VOTE BLUE!
Sarcasmo Ultra BLAM!2That dork Kennedy, well educated, but a few years ago he figured a "good ol boy" style was more popular, maybe. Anyway, he didn't always talk like Andy Griffith, it's a put on, a façade.
DonnaMo5001Kennedy had a go at Smith prior as a warm up act, ending with "you make me want to throw up in my mouth." That's the tenor of what he said.
Steve Vitoff1that's the best case of Hawk Tuah i've seen yet!