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Humiliated Republican pulls plug on interview as embarrassing new details trickle out
What happened
RawStory, citing the Daily Beast, reports that Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt withdrew from a scheduled C-SPAN appearance one day after his questioning of former special counsel Jack Smith unraveled during a Senate hearing. Host Dasha Burns disclosed the cancellation but did not report Schmitt’s reason, so the claim that embarrassment drove his decision remains an inference, not an established fact.
At Tuesday’s hearing, Schmitt tried to connect Smith to the Atlanta investigation of President Donald Trump by asking about a February 3, 2024 basketball game between the Golden State…
The skinny
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