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It’s not often we get a cataclysmic sports gaffe on Capitol Hill, but Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Missouri) gave us something absolutely incredible on Tuesday morning. In what can only be described as “the Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes of attempted gotchas,” Schmitt confidently dropped what he believed would be a smoking gun in causing Jack Smith to perjure himself as part of the probe into Smith’s investigation of President Donald Trump.
Schmitt confidently (and cockily) claimed that he had evidence from a series of text messages that Jack Smith was in Atlanta on Feb. 3, 2024, watching the Atlanta Hawks play the Golden State Warriors. Just one problem: Smith was actually in Maryland, seeing the Iowa Hawkeyes play Maryland.
“It … it was because Caitlin Clark was coming to Maryland to play. That’s why we went to the game,” Smith said. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) tried to hold back her laughter at the gaffe, before criticizing her fellow senator for insinuating Smith was a “dirtbag” over his incorrect “evidence,” while also taking a shot at his lack of hoops knowledge: “For a U.S. Senator to have false information, and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team — which I knew, knowing my midwestern sports…”
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Smith said that he was present at the game with members of the U.S. Marshall’s service, which was confirmed. He absolutely was not in Atlanta, when Schmitt said he was. But … should he have been?! Let’s compare the game he went to, with the one that Schmitt thought he was at.
Iowa Hakweyes 93, Maryland Terrapins 85
Caitlin Clark went off, scoring 38 points, dishing 12 assists, and adding 6 rebounds for good measure. It wasn’t her most efficient day from beyond the arc, as she shot 7-for-17 from three — but ultimately it was an astonishingly good game.
Atlanta Hawks 141, Golden State Warriors 134
It took overtime to settle the game between the Hawks and Warriors. Steph Curry was nuclear, scoring 60 points, including 10-of-23 from three, but it wasn’t enough to stop a barrage of Hawks’ offense led by Trae Young.
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I don’t know if there was a right or wrong game to go to here,…
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Publish date : 2026-09-29 19:47:00
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