This Schmitt is Live Part Deux

you could possibly get about the geography of DC. But as a movie, I thought it was really good. Gene Hackman, always great. What about American swires? I did not see that, actually. So Brian, I might have to. Mr. Schmidt goes to Washington. I thought you were going to name the space. Mr. Schmidt goes to Washington. You know, there was does anybody remember that movie? Of course. There was a star. The thing is, Jimmy Stewart movie coming out of something about him going into the war to become, you know, a combat flyer. And you know, he became like a general, you know, like when he went into World War II. Wait, what are we talking about now? Oh, Jimmy Stewart. Yeah. No, there's, I've been seeing ads from the movie. Oh, biopic. Yeah, about him when he's, you know, he just won the Academy Award for the one with a Catherine Hepburn, but anyway. But then he becomes a Brigadier general, flying missions over Germany. Well, and it's even more heroic than that because they offered him the same gig that Reagan got, which was just like doing movie like a propaganda video, propaganda movies and stuff. And not propaganda, recruiting movies. And he said, no, I want to fight. And then he came back so traumatized, so PTSD. I mean, he didn't tell the story for decades. He finally told it on Johnny Carson's show right before Carson was going to retire. That when he got back from flying those B17s, I think it was, he wanted to kill himself because he was so shell shocked is what they would have called it at the time. And getting cast in, it's a wonderful life. He credits was saving his life because, of course, that's the storyline of the movie. And he credits Frank Capro was saving his life. Wow. And that movie did not do well at the box office, but it became the Christmas classic that everybody watches now. Yep. Absolutely. All right. Thanks for coming, you guys. We'll retweet the space. Probably won't be super long. And I'll warn you right now, Eugene. I may get a phone call in the middle of it, in which case, I'll cross my fingers and hope the space doesn't crash. But if it does, we can either pop it up again or decide that we're done, but I just couldn't resist because this fucking Eric Schmidt's story is just such a perfect metaphor for everything that Maga has become. And actually, anybody who doesn't know what I'm talking about when I say Senator Eric Schmidt and Jack Smith hearing, throw a thumbs up, because if everybody knows about it, then I won't go over it in great detail. Yeah, I think just about everybody's seeing what happened there. Abarnie does the hundred mean you know about it or you don't know about it? Give me a thumbs up if you mean you know about it. All right, fuck it. I'll give you the short version. But if you guys haven't watched the actual video of it on C-SPAN or it's everywhere now, you have to go watch it. I just posted down in the purple peel. I guess I can put it up in the thing, but I just posted, here comes the clown music behind it. But it is that. OK. Sweet. So the new wrinkle, because this happened live as you guys know who were in our space about that hearing. But the new wrinkle since then, I'll get to in a second. But basically what happened was you get this Senator, US Senator Eric Schmidt, SCH, MITT. And he's from Missouri. So you got the dream team of Schmidt and Hawley from Missouri up there. And Senator Foghorn, Lekhorn, Kennedy is sitting next to him. And he's got Smith on the witness stand and Smith's under oath. And just so you guys know, I said this the other day, but for anybody who wasn't there, that dude has balls of steel. Sorry, ladies, for that metaphor. They, he knew, Jack Smith knew that they are trying to send him to prison. They've weaponized the Justice Department. You know, every accusation is a confession with them. So they claim it was weaponized before it wasn't. But now it is. To go after all of Trump's enemies. And of course, Jack Smith is at or near the top of the list or tied five-way tie maybe, top of the list. And so Jack Smith, of course, a career prosecutor, very, very successful mob prosecutor, somewhat successful public integrity prosecutor. But even back in the day before anybody knew who he was, when I was in the Clinton Justice Department and then when I was in the Bush White House, people knew him. His reputation as a prosecutor was so good that everybody kind of knew his name that was in that, you know, those circles. When he was, you know, 20 years younger, whatever. So he was a special counsel appointed to investigate January 6th and the classified documents case in Florida. And of course, he got two separate grand juries of 20 plus people presented these cases, ordinary people, ordinary Americans, and got indictments in both cases. Certainly looked to me, and I did spaces on this at the time, like the documents case was a slam dunk. He was going to get convicted of multiple felonies, including espionage probably. And he was going to go to prison probably for the rest of his life. And the J6 case on the facts of it, they also had him dead to rights. He clearly was the head of multiple conspiracies to try to alter the outcome of the 2026 election, or 2020 election in unlawful and unconstitutional ways. And I think he would have been convicted. The only issues there would have been the law around this type of insurrection and conspiracy to defraud the government kind of charges is pretty untested. And of course, it would have been the first time a president had ever been tried in criminal court. So who knows? But the document case for sure he was going to prison. If I had done 1,000 of what he did when I was in the government, I would be in prison for the rest of my life. Now, to be fair, and I said this at the time too, if I had done 1 10th of what Hillary did with that server in Colorado, I would have also been in prison. But Trump's thing was orders of magnitude worse. Anyway, so Smith, after the election in 2020, after Trump won because of a longstanding DOJ policy that you can't prosecute a sitting president or you shouldn't prosecute a sitting president. And because of course, he knew that Trump was going to bring in some cronies and get all the cases dismissed anyway, he dismissed the cases. And actually, there's a development in the 11th circuit in the documents case actually yesterday, which I didn't know about when we had our space the other day. So here's what happens. So he's got these giant balls because he knows they're trying to send him in prison. He would have had every reason to believe, even though it's illegal and unethical, that Trump's FBI and Department of Justice would have shared all kinds of inside law enforcement sensitive information with the senators. And they were clearly trying to send him to prison for perjury. They were trying to set perjury traps. So he's going along, cool as a cucumber, answered every question, basically embarrassed every senator that tried to embarrass him. And then Eric Schmidt comes up. And Eric Schmidt, I don't know his background, but the reason I titled the space originally, Hillbilly, Eulogy, of course, was a little bit of a nod to JD Vance's book, Hillbilly, LG, but also because Schmidt, whatever his real background is, and I haven't looked, he tries to come off as kind of like a JD Vance, Auschucks, Down to Earth, plain, spoken, regular dude. So Hillbilly, Eulogy is referring to the fact that, and this is how you know it was a set up hit job, that hours before the hearing started, his staff leaked a photo of him with JD Vance and something like Eric Schmidt, a condender for the Vice Presidential slot in 2028, whatever. And of course, Benny Johnson and all the usual useful idiots, rolling in rubles, were so fucking stupid, they didn't bother to actually watch the hearing, they published a transcript quote unquote, of how they hoped it was going to go. And then of course it didn't go that way, because what happens is, and the- Hey, Benny Johnson did not answer me. I asked a question like, I was, I think you're everybody that liked that pose. But I asked him like, you know, are you gonna issue a statement? What's going on with this? He's been really silent on this whole thing. Well, he pulled it down too, didn't he? He did? Yeah, real quick. So to Sean Hannes. Yeah. But that's how you know this set up in advance. So what we learned yesterday, or today, I don't know, days all run together. Since our last base is that the information that Schmidt used that was supposed to be the big gotcha moment and send Smith to jail for perjury, he got it illegally, I believe, from the Trump Justice Department and FBI. Now, these were internal text messages or emails, I forget, of his staff, Jack Smith's staff. So query, how did they get them? So at the same fucking hearing, when Maga Senator after Maga Senator after Maga Senator are falsely accusing Smith of doing something unethical or illegal because he got lawful orders to get their phone toll records, not their, not the content of their communications. But when the White House, on and before January 6th, we're making all these calls to members of Congress and the Senate to try to help the conspiracy along, of course, you're gonna get their toll records. And this has been going on forever. It's so common that there's even procedures for it, written procedures between the government and the Congress. So they're all be raiding Smith for this alleged illegal thing. And by the way, of course, Senators Blackburn and who's the other Joker from Tennessee, Bill, whatever his name is, they have reported Jack Smith to the bar because he's barred in Tennessee and I had a comment about that, it's ridiculous, it's bullshit. But anyway, so it turns out DOJ had obviously either wire tapped or in some other way got internal records of Smith, Smith's, not Smith, Smith's investigation, the exact bullshit they were accusing Jack Smith of doing. So as always, every accusation is confession. So what was supposed to happen was Smith was gonna get Smith in a perjury trap, meaning he's under oath, they've already asked him hundreds of questions. It's towards the end, as it always is. And they figure he's tired and he'll slip up. So Schmidt pops up this exhibit, big ass piece of poster board with quotes from his staff and a picture of Fannie Willis, the DA in Fulton County. And just flashes it for a second. So he doesn't even get a chance to really read anything and puts it down. And then Schmidt is ready to, in his mind, execute the coup de groin. By the way, smiling, foghorn, leachhorn, casities back there holding the poster board up, smugly. So he asked him if he was at an Atlanta Hawks game on a particularly day in February of 2024. And you can tell by looking at Smith's face, he has no fucking idea what this guy's talking about. But because he's worried about getting prosecuted for perjury, because that's what they're trying to do, he says, well, I don't recall that. Maybe I flew through Atlanta on my way to Florida once or twice, but I don't recall that. And so Schmidt doesn't ask him the real question, which is, did you meet with Fannie Willis? He's trying to prove that he was in Atlanta on the day after Fannie Willis had to fire her associate because they were having an affair, which is bullshit and a whole nother thing, but not today's space. So Smith just has no idea what he's talking about, you can tell. So finally, they get him to put the exhibit back up. And the exhibit is his staff saying that Smith is going to go to a Hawks game. And so Schmidt assumes without investigating that this means the Atlanta Hawks, which means he thinks he can place him in Atlanta on a certain day, which means he's going to imply whether it's true or not that he colluded with Fannie Willis in these prosecutions of Trump. Now, mind you, even if he had as the special counsel met with state and local prosecutors, that is not illegal. That is not unethical. That is not unconstitutional. Prosecutors from different jurisdictions do this all the time. It's very routine. But that was the chain of speculation that you had to believe to even make Schmidt's question make any sense if it had turned out to be what he thought it was. So while other senators are trying to break in and get him to clarify the question and show the exhibit again, he's Schmidt and his smugness says, well, I think you've really already committed perjury. So then Amy Klobuchar, who is not my favorite senator, and she's way too liberal for me, but she's a former prosecutor herself, and she has a sense of humor, and she's actually from the Midwest says, oh, oh, because Smith says the only basketball game I remember going to during any of this time is I went to see Caitlin Clark play. So then this pops the light bulb and Amy Klobuchar's mind, and she says, oh!