When the former special counsel insisted he had not gone to see the Atlanta **Hawks **play in that time period, Mr. Schmitt declared, “I think you’ve already perjured yourself,” and called Mr. Smith a “dirtbag.”
The accusation appeared to unravel almost immediately.
Invited to respond by Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, Mr. Smith said he had, in fact, attended a basketball game on that day, but it was to see the Iowa **Hawkeyes **at the University of Maryland. That night, Caitlin Clark, the star point guard who now plays in the W.N.B.A., scored 38 points and had 12 assists.
The guys sitting behind Senator Schmitt are two lawyers who work for him. He also likely had his staff vet the claims. Senator Schmitt was really mad at being called out on his lies.
Archived copy of the article — archive.is isn’t exactly a good actor, but they don’t require registration.
For a long time I was really confused about what is so bad about the Atlanta Hawks that you might need an alibi to go see them.
It turns out that the second part of this wacko’s conspiracy theory is that Jack Smith used the Atlanta Hawks (which, again, Smith never actually went to) as a cover to secretly meet with Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis.
Absolutely no evidence as to this “meeting” with Willis was presented whatsoever.
Yeah, it was already quite stupid from the very beginning, and then it got even stupider.
I don’t know anything about the Schmitt guy, but my guess is that his “reasoning” (feels) consisted of this sequence:
Maybe someone should look into what’s happening at the games Senator Schmitt attends.