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09/29 18:20 CDT Hawks? Hawkeyes? Schmitt in probing Smith mistakes basketball
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Hawks? Hawkeyes? Schmitt in probing Smith mistakes basketball mascots
By THOMAS BEAUMONT
Associated Press
In Sen. Eric Schmitt's effort to trip up former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith on
Tuesday, the Missouri Republican seemed to mistake basketball teams playing
about 650 miles apart.
Schmitt accused Smith of perjuring himself during a Senate hearing after
repeatedly prodding him about whether he'd attended an NBA game in Atlanta on
the evening of Feb. 3, 2024. The hometown Hawks were playing the Golden State
Warriors.
Schmitt appeared to be trying to set Smith in Atlanta at the time Fulton County
District Attorney Fani Willis was facing scrutiny for her romantic relationship
with Nathan Wade, the special state prosecutor she hired for the county's
election-interference case against Trump.
"So your testimony today is that you did not go to a Hawks game on Feb. 3,
2024. Is that correct?" Schmitt asks sharply. "What would you say if I had a
series of text messages from your team that said you were in Atlanta at a
Warriors-Hawks game on Feb. 2, 2024?"
Smith said he didn't think he had visited Atlanta as special prosecutor, and
was even more certain he hadn't attended an Atlanta Hawks game.
He did, however, recall attending a University of Iowa women's game at the
University of Maryland on Feb. 3, 2024, recalling the game as one where
then-Iowa star Caitlin Clark was playing.
"Could it then be that the University of Iowa was the Hawkeyes?" Sen. Amy
Klobuchar of Minnesota interjected. "Perhaps you should have looked at it more
carefully."
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