This morning at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with witness Jack Smith:

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

HAHAHAHAHAH.

Eric Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of lying about going to an Atlanta Hawk’s basketball game.

Smith went to see the Iowa Hawkeyes.

9:44 AM · Sep 29, 2026

Some of the responses:

🤔 Is that all they’ve got? lol

Thanks for the absolutely LOL I just had. Almost peed my pants I laughed so hard and long. 🤭😎😆

Incomplete staff work or deliberate misrepresentation of facts? I’ll take door number two.

That creep called Jack Smith a dirt bag. MAGA is slime.

I’m glad they’re wasting time on important discussions.

Fuck these people are beyond being embarrassed they’re so dumb. So far it looks like it’s blowing up in their fucking faces. Thank you for reminding us that the orange meat stick would’ve been convicted of serious crimes.

Is it the Mizzou Tigers or the Hamilton Tiger-Cats?

It’s a Missouri reference.

jesus

Maybe Natalie shouldn’t be in opposition research.

We see what you did there.

Is this all they have?

They never had anything.

Eric Schmitt is full of shit head clown in the Republican circus wasting time and tax payers money instead of fixing the economy and doing the jobs they were elected to do.Disgraceful.

Nothing to say but he has to fill his 5 minutes. Like Kennedy, they have nothing, they know Trump is guilty of all the stuff and Jack Smith had him dead to rights, and if it wasn’t for the machine covering up and excusing Satan, we would have a much better world.

Eric Schmitt is either a liar or a moron. Probably both.

Schmitt does not know ball.

Conspiracy peddling swatted down in real-time love to see it!

He was so certain of his “gotcha.” LMAO.

Schmitt’s “questioning” was embarrassing to him
and the State of Missouri.

Eric Schmitt’s big gotcha moment not only backfired on himself, but it also made him look like an ass.

Eric Schmitt (r) has always looked like an ass.

I just called his office and laughed for the whole message.

Now that’s funny.

right-wing morons are giving it their best

Schmitt is not a serious person.

it’s an instant SNL skit
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Let’s call it was it is: #SchmittIsAnAssHat

Every single one of these repubs are complete morons

Douchebag extraordinaire

Heh. See image above.

Then he proceeds to call Smith a dirtbag. Schmitt was trying to play gotcha and it backfired on him! [Sen. Amy Klobuchar] (I don’t know you as they didn’t show her) chimed in with the correction, the score of the game and demanded Schmitt apologize to Smith!

Klobuchar just confirmed it was a University of Maryland/Iowa Hawkeyes game that Smith attended (in Maryland)
Smith testified that he went to the game, because he wanted to see Caitlin Clark play. That will make MAGAs implode.
and Eric Schmitt exposed again, as an incompetent dirtbag

Hawks, Hawkeyes, NBA team, womens college team. Who can tell the difference? So confusing!

His face was beet red.

“You can’t fix stupid”

An embarrassment to the Judiciary Committee, the U.S. Senate, Missouri, and the U.S.A.

Schmitt calling Mr. Smith a ‘dirtbag’ is rich. Schmitt is one of the purest examples of MAGA scum.

He used this as the basis to accuse Smith of being in Atlanta at that time to meet with Fani Willis as she was being dismissed. Ridiculous!! An ignorant fishing expedition.

more than ignorant–dishonest attempt to spread misinformation–which backfired in spectacular fashion–and reminded everyone that Schmitt is a dirtbag.

The voters of Missouri should be embarrassed that Sen. Schmitt is “representing” them.

That fool is repping my state. He’s getting a nasty phone call. 😜

Good. He should get a lot of negative phone calls from constituents about this. Missouri should vote Eric Schmitt out as soon as they can. What a shameless and embarrassing display. The GOP doesn’t bring their best, that’s for sure.

Eric Schmitt is thicker than a plank

Idiot!!! Schmitt is an imbecile