Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Tuesday accused former special counsel Jack Smith of committing perjury when he denied attending a specific Atlanta Hawks basketball game in 2024 — to Smith's apparent confusion. The attempted trick play happened during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Smith's now-scuttled investigations into President Donald Trump.
Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Tuesday accused former special counsel Jack Smith of committing perjury when he denied attending a specific Atlanta Hawks basketball game in 2024 — to Smith's apparent confusion.
The attempted trick play happened during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Smith's now-scuttled investigations into President Donald Trump.
"Did you go to an NBA game between the Golden State Warriors and the Atlanta Hawks on February 3, 2024?" Schmitt asked.
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Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Tuesday accused former special counsel Jack Smith of committing perjury when he denied attending a specific Atlanta Hawks basketball game in 2024 — to Smith's apparent confusion. The attempted trick play happened during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Smith's now-scuttled investigations into President Donald Trump. "Did you go to an NBA game between the Golden State Warriors and the Atlanta Hawks on February 3, 2024?" Schmitt asked.
It soon emerged that Schmitt had the wrong team. "What city would that be in?" a confused looking Smith replied. Schmitt pressed him again if he was in Atlanta on that date, and then said he'd give him some "context" — it was the day after Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, "came clean" about her romantic relationship with a prosecutor in her then-pending criminal case against Trump.
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