Date: September 29th, 2026 2:50 PM Author: Dead Sanctuary Incel
Senate Republicans assailed Jack Smith, the former special counsel who charged Donald J. Trump with criminal offenses after his first term, but their attacks on Tuesday were undercut by what appeared to be a remarkable error of mistaken identity: the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
During a four-hour Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that was the latest clash over the use of prosecutorial power in American politics, Senator Eric Schmitt struck a conspiratorial tone and suggested Mr. Smith had gone to Atlanta to meet a scandal-marred prosecutor there who had also charged Mr. Trump. When Mr. Smith denied it, the senator accused him of perjury and called him a “dirtbag.”