Today, he put his crackerjack lawyering skills to the cause of nailing Jack Smith, accusing the former special prosecutor of conspiring \u2014 somehow \u2014 with Fulton County DA Fani Willis based on smoking gun texts placing Smith in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Except, you know, none of that is true.<\/p>\n
After Smith testified that he did not meet with Willis and doesn\u2019t recall being in Atlanta, Schmitt sprung a perjury trap that Wile E. Coyote would\u2019ve sniffed out as an obvious loser.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat would you say if I had a series of text messages from your team that said you were in Atlanta at a Warriors-Hawks game on February 3rd, 2024?\u201d<\/p>\n
A staffer hoisted a poster board before immediately taking it down. Schmitt offered to give Smith \u201ca second to process it so you don\u2019t, you know, perjure yourself.\u201d Smith asked if he could actually look at the board and Schmitt announced that Smith had already perjured himself. He wrapped up by calling Smith \u201ca total dirtbag.\u201d<\/p>\n
Except Smith was NOT in Atlanta. He was, however, in Maryland watching the Iowa Hawkeyes (occasionally referred to as \u201cHawks\u201d) defeat the Terps on the back of a 38-point effort from then-Hawkeye Caitlin Clark.<\/p>\n This was bizarre. I have never seen \u201cevidence\u201d introduced so quickly and then hidden.<\/p>\n Senator Eric Schmitt accuses Jack Smith of perjury for denying he went to an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024. As it turns out, he went to an Iowa Hawkeyes game (in Maryland). pic.twitter.com\/h0kYmNGejH<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) September 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Missouri borders<\/em> Iowa. <\/p>\n This is dumb, yes. But that\u2019s par for the course with Republican officials. But what\u2019s really damning is that a former state AG represented that he had texts that said, \u201cin Atlanta at a Warrior-Hawks game\u201d which they absolutely did not. At best they say \u201cHawks\u201d and at no point in the process did a supposed lawyer perform even cursory research before accusing a much more respected lawyer of perjury. Work this shoddy is shocking even for a conservative lawyer, which says a lot because the bar for bare competence among red state AGs is already low.<\/p>\n Indeed, it was a Republican AG who once infamously misspelled \u201cLouisiana\u201d in a brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of Louisiana<\/em>. Oh wait, that was ERIC SCHMITT<\/a>.<\/p>\n Speaking of Louisiana\u2026 <\/p>\n I don\u2019t think we\u2019re adequately appreciating that Sen. John Kennedy was so eager to get in on Eric Schmitt\u2019s gotcha moment that he helped hold up the posterboard. <\/p>\n He even stares down Klobuchar with that look of \u201ccheck and mate!\u201d pic.twitter.com\/HiAnWV8yRe<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) September 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Kennedy tried to glom onto Schmitt\u2019s moment of triumph and only managed to bask in the reflected glow of humiliation. Honestly, this is the worst thing to ever happen to a John Kennedy in American history. Unlike Schmitt, Kennedy actually is smart deep down, having gotten degrees from a T14 law school and Oxford. But along the way his elite pedigree became an albatross and he\u2019s adopted the cadence and mannerisms of Foghorn Leghorn. These days he\u2019s largely traded his intellect for a caricature of what a dumb person imagines a smart person to be. For example, the Kennedy relentless yet inane bar exam pub quiz<\/a> the senator makes judicial nominees endure. Obscure book knowledge? Sure. Practical relevance? No, but it looks \u201csmart\u201d if you don\u2019t know any better.<\/p>\n Anyway, Kennedy ultimately realized he\u2019d put his money on the wrong horse here. Because he\u2019d actually put his money on a jackass.<\/p>\n Is this the first surrender cobra during a senate hearing? pic.twitter.com\/cH3rwc8vgh<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Noble Prize in Sarcasm (@rewegreatyet) September 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n The Surrender Cobra<\/a>: a sports phenomenon that \u2014 along with getting punked by Iowa \u2014 enjoys deep ties to Michigan football<\/a>. <\/p>\n Senator Katie Britt, a United States Senator whose only claim to fame is getting dragged to hell and back by Scarlett Johansson<\/a>, realized how badly Schmitt had embarrassed the Republican strategy and allowed us to watch in real-time.<\/p>\n The moment Sen. Katie Britt realized Schmitt\u2019s mistake.<\/p>\n pic.twitter.com\/9Fb1CHyBE8<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/4DVJBhS2lz<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Adam Wren (@adamwren) September 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Hang. It. In. The. Louvre. <\/p>\n Even the staffers managed to register high enough on the basic cognitive scale to understand:<\/p>\n Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day. pic.twitter.com\/387Dm3bHc5<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n There\u2019s a narrative going around that this is a staffer mistake, and let\u2019s put that to bed right now. Obviously the staff failed to flag the problem before Schmitt went out with his pants down, but \u201caccusing DOJ officials of perjury\u201d is not a responsibility that gets farmed out. Schmitt owns this from top to bottom.<\/p>\n While his colleagues at all levels have figured out how badly this went, Schmitt is \u2014 it seems \u2014 refusing to back down<\/a>:<\/p>\n After the hearing, Schmitt insisted he\u2019d gotten nothing wrong, but he seemed less sure Smith had committed perjury.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know if Jack Smith\u2019s lying or not. It was the only game \u2015 Atlanta was the only NBA game or men\u2019s college basketball game that night at 7:30,\u201d Schmitt told HuffPost.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Look, it\u2019s not anti-Trans bigotry, it\u2019s that Republicans just care so much<\/em> about protecting women\u2019s sports. So much that they can\u2019t even fathom the possibility that someone might go watch a women\u2019s college basketball game starring the best player in the country that year. <\/p>\n Psst\u2026 gang, I\u2019m starting to think that it might just be anti-Trans bigotry.<\/p>\n Also:<\/p>\n What even is this? You are \u2014 ostensibly \u2014 a professional. For all the times that conservatives invoke the Framers, I\u2019d just once like to hear how they think the authors of the Constitution would feel knowing that the congressional record is filled with comic sans visual aids. <\/p>\n At the end of the day, it was Senator Amy Klobuchar who got the board back in front of the witness, who then remembered the college hoops contest at Maryland.<\/p>\n But Klobuchar had an unfair advantage since, you know, her state also borders Iowa<\/em>.<\/p>\n From Raw Story<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cThat might be the confusion over the names of the team, but perhaps you should have looked at it more carefully,\u201d Klobuchar told Schmitt.<\/p>\n Schmitt aggressively fired back.<\/p>\n \u201cWhose questioning is this by the way, are you using your time, senator? Is this what this is, are we just having like an open session here? I\u2019m glad you\u2019re trying to rehabilitate the witness, but it\u2019s not your time,\u201d Schmitt said, raising his voice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cYou had the teams wrong, sir!\u201d Klobuchar would eventually explain. It\u2019s cliche at this point, but the fact that liberals managed to get custody of \u201csports\u201d in the national divorce is an all-timer of a plot twist. <\/p>\n [Note: A number of additions have been made since the original publishing because this story keeps getting funnier]<\/em><\/p>\n The post Senator Accuses Jack Smith Of Perjury Because Missouri Lawmaker Too Dumb To Know About The Iowa Hawkeyes<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n First, the Iowa Hawkeyes delivered a demoralizing 20-19 gut punch to the Michigan Wolverines on a last second play. And now the university has indirectly exposed the sitting senator and former state AG of neighboring Missouri as an unserious clown of the highest order. <\/p>\n Eric Schmitt is a dolt. This isn\u2019t really news. He was a drooling idiot as Missouri\u2019s attorney general where he proved incapable of contending with the plain text of a statute<\/a> and succeeded mostly in wasting taxpayer resources pursuing a facially frivolous challenge to void Joe Biden\u2019s electoral votes<\/a>. He\u2019s since taken his talents to Capitol Hill where he\u2019s been a dangerous, irresponsible malignancy as a senator<\/a>. <\/p>\n Today, he put his crackerjack lawyering skills to the cause of nailing Jack Smith, accusing the former special prosecutor of conspiring \u2014 somehow \u2014 with Fulton County DA Fani Willis based on smoking gun texts placing Smith in Atlanta.<\/p>\n Except, you know, none of that is true.<\/p>\n After Smith testified that he did not meet with Willis and doesn\u2019t recall being in Atlanta, Schmitt sprung a perjury trap that Wile E. Coyote would\u2019ve sniffed out as an obvious loser.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat would you say if I had a series of text messages from your team that said you were in Atlanta at a Warriors-Hawks game on February 3rd, 2024?\u201d<\/p>\n A staffer hoisted a poster board before immediately taking it down. Schmitt offered to give Smith \u201ca second to process it so you don\u2019t, you know, perjure yourself.\u201d Smith asked if he could actually look at the board and Schmitt announced that Smith had already perjured himself. He wrapped up by calling Smith \u201ca total dirtbag.\u201d<\/p>\n Except Smith was NOT in Atlanta. He was, however, in Maryland watching the Iowa Hawkeyes (occasionally referred to as \u201cHawks\u201d) defeat the Terps on the back of a 38-point effort from then-Hawkeye Caitlin Clark.<\/p>\n This was bizarre. I have never seen \u201cevidence\u201d introduced so quickly and then hidden.<\/p>\n Senator Eric Schmitt accuses Jack Smith of perjury for denying he went to an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024. As it turns out, he went to an Iowa Hawkeyes game (in Maryland). pic.twitter.com\/h0kYmNGejH<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) September 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Missouri borders<\/em> Iowa. <\/p>\n This is dumb, yes. But that\u2019s par for the course with Republican officials. But what\u2019s really damning is that a former state AG represented that he had texts that said, \u201cin Atlanta at a Warrior-Hawks game\u201d which they absolutely did not. At best they say \u201cHawks\u201d and at no point in the process did a supposed lawyer perform even cursory research before accusing a much more respected lawyer of perjury. Work this shoddy is shocking even for a conservative lawyer, which says a lot because the bar for bare competence among red state AGs is already low.<\/p>\n Indeed, it was a Republican AG who once infamously misspelled \u201cLouisiana\u201d in a brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of Louisiana<\/em>. Oh wait, that was ERIC SCHMITT<\/a>.<\/p>\n Speaking of Louisiana\u2026 <\/p>\n I don\u2019t think we\u2019re adequately appreciating that Sen. John Kennedy was so eager to get in on Eric Schmitt\u2019s gotcha moment that he helped hold up the posterboard. <\/p>\n He even stares down Klobuchar with that look of \u201ccheck and mate!\u201d pic.twitter.com\/HiAnWV8yRe<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) September 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Kennedy tried to glom onto Schmitt\u2019s moment of triumph and only managed to bask in the reflected glow of humiliation. Honestly, this is the worst thing to ever happen to a John Kennedy in American history. Unlike Schmitt, Kennedy actually is smart deep down, having gotten degrees from a T14 law school and Oxford. But along the way his elite pedigree became an albatross and he\u2019s adopted the cadence and mannerisms of Foghorn Leghorn. These days he\u2019s largely traded his intellect for a caricature of what a dumb person imagines a smart person to be. For example, the Kennedy relentless yet inane bar exam pub quiz<\/a> the senator makes judicial nominees endure. Obscure book knowledge? Sure. Practical relevance? No, but it looks \u201csmart\u201d if you don\u2019t know any better.<\/p>\n Anyway, Kennedy ultimately realized he\u2019d put his money on the wrong horse here. Because he\u2019d actually put his money on a jackass.<\/p>\n Is this the first surrender cobra during a senate hearing? pic.twitter.com\/cH3rwc8vgh<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Noble Prize in Sarcasm (@rewegreatyet) September 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n The Surrender Cobra<\/a>: a sports phenomenon that \u2014 along with getting punked by Iowa \u2014 enjoys deep ties to Michigan football<\/a>. <\/p>\n Senator Katie Britt, a United States Senator whose only claim to fame is getting dragged to hell and back by Scarlett Johansson<\/a>, realized how badly Schmitt had embarrassed the Republican strategy and allowed us to watch in real-time.<\/p>\n The moment Sen. Katie Britt realized Schmitt\u2019s mistake.<\/p>\n pic.twitter.com\/9Fb1CHyBE8<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/4DVJBhS2lz<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Adam Wren (@adamwren) September 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Hang. It. In. The. Louvre. <\/p>\n Even the staffers managed to register high enough on the basic cognitive scale to understand:<\/p>\n Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day. pic.twitter.com\/387Dm3bHc5<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n There\u2019s a narrative going around that this is a staffer mistake, and let\u2019s put that to bed right now. Obviously the staff failed to flag the problem before Schmitt went out with his pants down, but \u201caccusing DOJ officials of perjury\u201d is not a responsibility that gets farmed out. Schmitt owns this from top to bottom.<\/p>\n While his colleagues at all levels have figured out how badly this went, Schmitt is \u2014 it seems \u2014 refusing to back down<\/a>:<\/p>\n After the hearing, Schmitt insisted he\u2019d gotten nothing wrong, but he seemed less sure Smith had committed perjury.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know if Jack Smith\u2019s lying or not. It was the only game \u2015 Atlanta was the only NBA game or men\u2019s college basketball game that night at 7:30,\u201d Schmitt told HuffPost.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Look, it\u2019s not anti-Trans bigotry, it\u2019s that Republicans just care so much<\/em> about protecting women\u2019s sports. So much that they can\u2019t even fathom the possibility that someone might go watch a women\u2019s college basketball game starring the best player in the country that year. <\/p>\n Psst\u2026 gang, I\u2019m starting to think that it might just be anti-Trans bigotry.<\/p>\n Also:<\/p>\n What even is this? You are \u2014 ostensibly \u2014 a professional. For all the times that conservatives invoke the Framers, I\u2019d just once like to hear how they think the authors of the Constitution would feel knowing that the congressional record is filled with comic sans visual aids. <\/p>\n At the end of the day, it was Senator Amy Klobuchar who got the board back in front of the witness, who then remembered the college hoops contest at Maryland.<\/p>\n But Klobuchar had an unfair advantage since, you know, her state also borders Iowa<\/em>.<\/p>\n From Raw Story<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cThat might be the confusion over the names of the team, but perhaps you should have looked at it more carefully,\u201d Klobuchar told Schmitt.<\/p>\n Schmitt aggressively fired back.<\/p>\n \u201cWhose questioning is this by the way, are you using your time, senator? Is this what this is, are we just having like an open session here? 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