Eric Schmitt (r), this morning:

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STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support the pardon of the former Honduran president?

SCHMITT: I’m not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances

S: What do you mean you’re not familiar? It’s been front page news

SCHMITT: You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is why your ratings are so bad

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Dec 7, 2025, 8:59 AM

The transcript:

George Stephanopoulos: ….Do you support this pardon of the former Honduran president?

Eric Schmitt (r): I’m not familiar with the facts or circumstances, but I think what’s telling here is to try to imply that somehow President Trump is soft on, on, um, drug smuggling, uh, is just ridiculous. It’s totally ridiculous. He’s the, he’s, uh, provided border security like we’ve never seen before. And the fact is these cartels now because the southern border is closed, they’ve gone to the high seas. So President Trump is acting with his core Article II powers. No serious legal expert would doubt that the president has authority to blow, uh, narco-terrorists out of the water who are poisoning a hundred thousand Americans every year. If you watched the SEC championship game yesterday, the Big 10 championship game, combine those two stadiums with the number of people there, that’s how many people are dying each and every year from the poison that’s coming from these narco-terrorists. So the fact is, George, President Trump has been delegated the authority by Congress to designate terrorist organizations. He’s done that. He sent a letter to Congress saying he was going to initiate these strikes. We’ve had regular briefings about it, including from Secretary of State Rubio, including from high ranking officials in the dep, Department of Defense. He’s executing those.

And so now what we have now are Democrats who have such x-ray vision and clairvoyance that they know the intentions of narco-terrorists on boats. Yet were so blind to see that we had a president for four years that was operating as a vegetable in Joe Biden.

So, you know, forgive me if I’m a little skeptical that this isn’t all about politics and trying to, uh, take out, um, Secretary Hegseth. That’s what this whole things been about, George. They didn’t want him confirmed, they didn’t want a realist in place, they didn’t want a shift from their pet projects around the world in trying to build democracies in the sands of the Middle-East by the barrel of a gun.

We have core national interests at stake, the homeland and the western hemisphere and the rise of China. That’s what this administration is focused on. The Democrats are just upset about that and they try to create some controversy each and every week. And it goes nowhere.

George Stephanopoulos:: What do you mean, you’re not familiar with the facts and circumstances of the pardon. It’s been well reported all across the country, the former president of Honduras. He was convicted of con, of conspiring to bring in four hundred tons of cocaine into the United States, also, also guns and other materials. Uh, it’s been front page news across the country. Aren’t you, aren’t you curious about that?

Eric Schmitt (r): Well, I’m curious about your pushback on that particular point. With your previous guest you had zero pushback because he’s, uh, giving the Democrat talking points like you spew every single week, which is probably why your ratings are so bad. But, to make the point, what I’m saying is you’re trying to, you’re trying to divert here the attention from what the American people actually support.

Seventy-five percent of Americans support us blowing narco-terrorists out of the water….

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What a dick. But we already knew that about Eric Schmitt (r).

Answer the question.

“…No serious legal expert would doubt…”

No true Scotsman

“…If you watched the SEC championship game yesterday, the Big 10 championship game, combine those two stadiums with the number of people there…”

What does that have to do with the price of beer in Germany?

Wait, it’s the Department of Defense?

“…who have such x-ray vision and clairvoyance that they know the intentions of narco-terrorists on boats…”

As opposed to, say, fisherman over a thousand miles from the United States?

“…Joe Biden…”

“…a president for four years that was operating as a vegetable…”

Every republican accusation is a confession.

“…With your previous guest you had zero pushback…”

It’s because you’re such a tool, Eric.

“…like you spew every single week, which is probably why your ratings are so bad…”

And yet you’re there, Eric.

There is much hilarity in the responses on Bluesky:

SCHMITT: I don’t know anything about current events, but I do follow ABC’s ratings closely. I’m a US Senator.

“You’re trying to divert here…”

Yeah, tell us about it Schmitt.

If his ratings are so bad, why are you on his show?

These people are just lying ass, moronic, hypocrites who think everyone else is stupid.

Ever notice, that who ever the Republican is, they start talking fast, deflect the question, and or bring up a distant incident not related to the question. Like they have been caught and are trying to explain why they are innocent. They are all the same, feckless adults.

A true Nathan Thurm response.

Well, that guy is a dick. 🙄

Periodic reminder that Schmitt, like his partner in crime Josh Hawley (and hasn’t *he* been noticeably absent recently?) is a disingenuous hack.

Wow, Schmitt’s attempt to do an end run around the question is almost artistic in its desperation, like a student who has no clue how to answer the essay but is going to throw absolutely everything they have at you in hopes you won’t notice

“…I ran outta gas. I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from outta town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locusts! It wasn’t my fault! I swear to God!…”

Is there any other job you could keep by consistently stating that you don’t know anything about your work?