Republicans within the Senate are holding on for pricey life and attempting to cling to their Senate majority. The Jack Smith listening to earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee is doing them no favors and is probably going harming the GOP’s possibilities.
Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri is a Trump loyalist, and the entire level of the listening to for Republicans is to rewrite historical past to reframe Smith’s investigations of Donald Trump as an unjust political prosecution.
Schmitt was in full efficiency mode and referred to as Smith a dirtbag, however issues shortly fell aside.
Schmitt used his time questioning Smith to ask, “ Did you go to an NBA sport between the Golden State Warriors and the Atlanta Hawks on February third, 2024?”
Smith: I am sorry, might you say that once more?
Schmitt: Did you go to an NBA sport between the Golden State Warriors and the Atlanta Hawks on February third, 2024?
Smith: What metropolis would that be in?
Schmitt Atlanta.
Smith: No.
Schmitt: Okay So your testimony immediately is that you simply didn’t go to a Hawks sport on February third, 2024. Is that appropriate?
Smith: I’ve no recollection of that.
Schmitt: Okay. Is it your testimony that you weren’t in Atlanta on February third, 2024? Let me, let me simply provide you with slightly context. Yeah. The day earlier than Fani Willis got here clear together with her affair with the prosecutor, the Atlanta prosecutor that was additionally attempting to get Trump, the subsequent day have been you in Atlanta?
Smith: I don’t imagine so.
Schmitt: Okay. Did you ever go to Atlanta throughout your time as particular counsel?
Sen. Schmitt thought that he had Smith and was setting him up for the conspiracy concept.
Schmitt requested Smith if he ever went to Atlanta and met with Fani Willis and Nathan Wade.
Bear in mind, the Republican conspiracy is that Biden directed a political prosecution of Trump that concerned federal, native, and state officers. This was all supposedly an unlimited conspiracy towards Trump.
Then Schmitt face-planted in entrance of the world on nationwide tv.
