Sen. Eric Schmitt confuses Atlanta Hawks with Iowa Hawkeyes at Jack Smith hearing
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.
Lysander76I screenshotted the video frame 👇 for everyone that didn't get a chance to read what was held up to Smith Eric Schmitt should be locked up for this absolute BS 🤬
Fella Historian🌻61Senator Schmitt needs to rewatch Sesame Street. He seemed to have missed this lesson: 🎶One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others By the time I finish my song?🎶
Kirk Colvin49I don't blame the moronic politicians as much as I blame STUPID voters who keep electing them.
Jack Brand40I absolutely LOVE when Republicans like Schmitt fall on their face. More please.
Christian Petersen29The same people who's mantra was "back the blue" immediately pivoted to "back the blue...except the ones trying to stop an insurrection at the Capitol, fuck those guys." This was the moment that confirmed that MAGA is a cult, choosing violent criminals over police officers. All for their leader.
Bill Leibenguth26Just fishing for gotcha sound bits, because they have nothing else.
Pat Bagley25Because Schmitt is a Republican senator and a moron But I repeat myself
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy15This is low-key hilarious if it weren't so dangerous. #getyourfactsstraight #Senator
Bob Wheeler3In a lot of ways this is reassuring as @maddow.bsky.social has told us often. They are corrupt but def not geniuses.
Dr. Cindy2“Sen. Amy Klobuchar quickly appeared to realize what had happened.”
Nana Rose🇺🇦2It was beautiful to watch an arrogant white man fall flat on his fucking face. He is deplorable.
Jack Smith makes mincemeat out Sen Eric Schmitt 🙌‼️Bravo 👍 to Amy @amyklobuchar.com 🙌🤣‼️
vallirose.bsky.social2Love this! The ineptitude coming from the Republican Party is pathetic. So much for his GOTCHA moment! The boomerang effect #EggOnHisFace
Sebastiaan (They/Them) - BLOCKS BOT ACCOUNTS2Oh the scandal. Jack Smith, a current private citizen, went to a sporting event.
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.
Emily44Schmitt thought he was Benoit Blanc but came off sounding like Beavis and Butthead.
Mummified Tony30This board proves nothing. And now knowing that it was a different game it just looks even more pathetic
Rich Swinton30Schmitt needs to be censured, at minimum.
Lysander28Clear screenshot 👇 from @atrupar.com 🙏
Dill Childs21Huge kudos to Jack Smith... there is just one split second, before he gatheres himself to answer, where you can see the biggest guffaw being firmly swallowed. His self-control is epic.
David Walker18ERIC is an INCOMPETENT SMUG CLOWN. Missouri deserves better. Harry Truman is rolling in his grave.
∞💙 Infinity 💙∞ 🗽🌎🌈 🫶 🇺🇦 🌊4Double dumbfuck on a pair of clueless clowns.
Ben Edwards2Senator Schmitt should resign. What an absolute clown!! 🤡
Odrok the Deceiver2Y'all wanna see a Midwest soccer mom beat a man's ass on live tv?
Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board2Senator Schmitt: It says right here you want the US to lose the War on Terror! You texted your friend "I can't wait to see the Patriots get their ass beat" Normal Person: You mean the day I was the Jets game? And they were playing... the Patriots?
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 Meerson20Happened to see this moment - Klobuchar was excellent 👏 This entire scenario is beyond pathetic 🤮
ReMarkable16Democrats 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 Lionel12If your argument has been destroyed or debunked, surgically or with a sledgehammer JUST SHOUT. You’ll be fine. White entitled old men 101.
voyageurs59.bsky.social11He acted like a crazed, abusive jerk! She calmly destroyed his grand conspiracy. Very proud of my Senator!
Fella Historian🌻11Maybe Senator Schmitt didn't watch enough Sesame Street when he was a kid🤷♀️
Duris Non Frangor 📎 CAntiFa🍁9Never try to mansplain to a MAGAt. It threatens their masculinity.
Ian Miles Schlong13There’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 Mother6This is just one of the 100s of reasons why we despise MAGA!
I think it's important to note Schmitt has staff he relies on from both his personal office as well as the well-staffed Committee's majority office. This *big-Hawks-game-plan* had to have gone through a dozen people first and no one caught it as being, well, the dumbest god damn thing of all time.
Diedrich Bader84Came here to say this
atriana.bsky.social14Somebody did. Hence why they wanted to flash their poster for only a brief second.
wjmckeown.bsky.social6And the dumbest part, assuming he's in ATL to speak covertly to Fani Willis, but showing up at a NBA stadium in public to hide.
Patrick Meighan4They brought in a whole poster board guy!
Matt!3I think they caught it at some point which is why they flashed the poster board quickly then took it down. They were hoping to get away with it and have a big clip for Fox news
West is West3How could you expect anyone on his team to possibly know something about a sports team from a faraway state that is located all the way across the … Oh. Never mind. 
Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury for denying he attended a Feb. 3, 2024 Atlanta Hawks vs. Golden State Warriors game. Turns out, Jack Smith was actually at an Iowa Hawkeyes game in Maryland, watching Caitlin Clark play. @samsteindc.bsky.social breaks down Schmitt's humiliation:
Yelling at the Sky7This is good enough for the magats, so Eric Schmitt went full send. Who has time for details? They’ll eat it up!
Gen Jones3Both of my Missouri senators are a disgrace.
Maya Steward2Be nice if Smith could sue Schmitt for slander.
Chrysostom2And he’s now on the Charlie Kirk show pretending he doesn’t know it’s all a fantasy. Which must be actionable as to continue spreading lies when you know they’re lies is surely malicious?
@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social2Jeezus, the Republican Schmucks are embarrassing.
beihai.bsky.social1the GOP has transgendered so much on their minds they can't tell the difference between the male Hawks and the female Hawkeyes.
Florida Chris10when sam is dunking on you...
If my gotcha moment as a US Senator is holding up a poster that confuses the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes I would cut my own nuts off during the lunch break and resign but that’s just me
iwillbe9.bsky.social9But you have to give Schmitt high marks for drenching his stupidity and incompetence with so much arrogance.
Anne Tifa6HE WAS JUST SO CERTAIN HE HAD A GOTCHA MOMENT. Gah! The arrogance of average white men.
Regina Schrambling 4Assumption is that they have nuts.
RXSarsparilla formerly Hell's Belle🎉3When you could double down, instead? Are you sure?
jazzrat2000 AKA Bonsai anonymous3Someone will lose their job but it won't be the senator. Of that I would bet at least $10
America, you in danger girl3If only. Far more likely he’ll fire the staffer who made the collage.
It's one thing to be so incredibly incompetent as Eric Schmitt that your dramatic "GOTCHA" moment falls apart in real time. It is quite another thing to be so incredibly dishonest as Eric Schmitt that you then go on a right-wing show and pretend it didn't happen. "My job is to ask the questions."😜
GET OUT OF MY WAY!3Amy Klobuchar's job was to answer. And she did. Right between his eyes.
Shola Hoon2MAGA is Schmitting themselves over this gaffe.
VagrantGuru1Throughout MAGA, it's arguable that they don't even need to he right. They just need a narrative for their rubes to believe. Considering the specific nature of the accusation, how quickly it was debunked, and how the MAGA faithful are dwindling, though, I'd be surprised if you hear this story more.
northsidemick1Guess they didn't have time to revise their prepared script
Holy shit, a sitting US Senator doesn't know the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and Iowa Hawkeyes, and concocts an entire conspiracy based entirely on that lack of knowledge. I'm dying.
John2I am THROUGH with politely assuming stupidity. That was malice and premeditated slander.
mikeywohl.bsky.social1And, even if he had been in Atlanta, that would not prove that Smith had met Willis, as Schmidt implied.
Opinionated Terran1Missouri's Finest* *Missouri ranks like 30th in educational achievement
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.
Jeremy2Kinkos isn't going to give a refund for that poster, either. It's a bad day all around for the Schmitty crew.
barrischiff.bsky.social1I 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.
WowBobWow1MAGA is what happens when the dog finally catches the car.
This is hilarious. It’s not just that Sen. Schmitt gets the team names wrong; he confuses a women’s college basketball game between the Maryland Terrapins and the Iowa Hawkeyes, in Maryland, for a men’s NBA game between the Golden State Warriors and the Atlanta Hawks, in Atlanta. Hawkeyes != Hawks.
Kathryn Tewson52And then when Sen. Klobuchar calls him on his ChatGPT-ass facts, he gets SUPER saddlesore, lol.
Grungehamster1The fact he was so quick to take the "evidence" down suggested he knew it was weak/flawed but was betting on Smith either conceding he was in Atlanta if that is what the evidence says or it becoming he said/she said with him having supposed evidence and Smith having no alibi on hand.
