All posts tagged "Eric Schmitt"

In December 2023, a woman living in a small community near Austin, Texas, made a $78.08 contribution through WinRed. A few weeks later, she made another.

Then came four more contributions in January 2024.

Those were the first six entries under her name in Federal Election Commission records stretching back decades. Since then, her name has appeared 126,739 times — including 1,011 times in reports filed by U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri....

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was warned that texts he used to accuse former special counsel Jack Smith of perjury were unvetted.

Republican staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee cautioned Schmitt ahead of Smith's testimony Tuesday that the Justice Department texts had not been verified, a source with direct knowledge of the conversation told MS NOW for a report on Wednesday. Schmitt went ahead and used them anyway.

According to the source, Schmitt had asked GOP staffers for material tying Smith's investigation of Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' Georgia case. His team was given access to the texts after showing interest, but committee staff made clear that checking the information was their job, the source said....

Former special counsel Jack Smith's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee left a GOP senator with a look that set off howls of online laughter.

On Tuesday, Smith appeared before the committee to defend his two criminal probes into President Donald Trump, and several Republicans suggested Smith should face prosecution. However, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) created one of the most-talked-about moments already after he appeared to confidently set a perjury trap for Smith.

Schmitt cited text messages from Smith's prosecutorial team about what Schmitt said was Smith's attendance at an Atlanta Hawks game. Smith recalled going to a University of Maryland women's basketball game against the University of Iowa Hawkeyes....