It appears as though Smith’s people made the error in their texts, and Eric Schmitt was just going by what information he had. They probably should have checked, though, to make sure there was a game in Atlanta on that day.
It was pretty goofy to go to all the trouble of making a poster without verifying the story, especially when Sen. Schmidt made an accusation of perjury based on the mix-up.
Other than Grassley, who brought up the small donor contributions, the Republicans were ill-prepared to bring any heat. He did come across as a hypocrite claiming to defend the Constitution , while diregarding separation of powers on the Rpublicam Senators’ phone records. Britt made exceceelent point about the FBI agent who prepared the case through Arctic Frost, Jack Smith picked that up and ran with it at the start of his investigation, despite Tebows rancorous, anti-Trump social media messaging that would have been enough to get any cop fired , as we have seen repeatedly. He deflected, meremy saying he “saw no evidense of bias” in findings of Arctic Frost. Britt filibustered herself by repetitively telling him to answer “yes or no, “ and then left herself short of time fo follow up questions she had. No Republican picked up her line of questioning, nobody quick enough on their feet to prosecute “fruit of a poison tree” narrative, though there was plenty opportunty to do that rather than spend all their time on Senators’ phone records.
> It appears as though Smith’s people made the error in their texts, and Eric Schmitt was just going by what information he had. They probably should have checked, though, to make sure there was a game in Atlanta on that day.
Yes, he should have checked! These things are too important to hand the left a damaging talking point that could have been easily avoided. Now that the press has this, it’s going to be run 24/7 to discredit ALL the GOP questioning.
Schmidtt’s team had time to whip up an exhibit with the texts, you mean to say they didn’t have the time to check the story? We need to be smarter than this.