It wasn’t so much that he got it wrong. And he did get it spectacularly wrong. It was the cockiness with which Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt got it wrong, as he accused former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith of perjuring himself before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Did the cockiness have anything to do with a conveniently timed Axios piece touting him as a potential 2028 Vice Presidential candidate? Survey says… Number one answer on the board!

The exchange—and Schmitt’s colleague Senator Katie Britt’s “oh sh’t” realization that the jig was up caught in slo-mo—provided the only moment of interest in yet another belabored hearing meant to rehash Republicans’ debunked claim that Smith broke the law during his investigation of Donald Trump, an investigation which resulted in dozens of felony counts against the then-former president.

“You don’t think you know we have this stuff, so I’ll give you a moment to process it,” Schmitt said to Smith, while his staff (very briefly) held up a poster board showing screen grabs of text messages purportedly proving that Jack Smith had just perjured himself after denying that he attended an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024.

The needle these supposedly incriminating texts were supposed to thread involved, I guess, a secret meeting Schmitt seemed to have invented between Smith and Fulton County DA Fani Willis for the purpose of… who the hell knows?

So as it turns out,........

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