by Winston Wendell
During the this week’s heated Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) thought that he had finally ambushed Jack Smith with proof of lies. Smith is accused of perjury for allegedly conspiring with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia.
Schmitt thought that he had caught Smith lying when one of his staff members found a text message with a ticket stub for a “Hawks vs. Golden State” game in Atlanta on February 3, 2024. Schmitt claimed that he attend the game with District Attorney Fani Willis who was also bringing charges against Donald Trump. The far-fetched theory unraveled at the hearing. Jack Smith attended the Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball team, Maryland with a friend. Besides, there is no such section as 109 Row 1 at the State Farm Arena. Texts indicated that “109 Row 1” was a particular place assigned to a handicapped person on a lettered row, not a numbered one.
On the other hand, the Maryland arena has a “Section 109, Row 1,” and the game was not between the Atlanta Hawks and Golden State Warriors but between the University of Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball team and their opponents. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) noted that Schmitt confused the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Iowa Hawkeyes of the NCAA.
The senator’s attempt to trap Smith backfired as he was in Maryland to see the Hawkeyes women’s basketball team. Senator Schmitt of Missouri continued to attack Smith, unjustly, during the hearing and called him a “total dirtbag.” Despite the dismissal of his allegation, Schmitt continued to criticize the former special counsel of the United States during a media interview he lied, where he repeated the unfounded story of the basketball game.
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