The Schmitt Hits The Fan

So much for the meritocracy. https://t.co/RdT1Ln884k

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 30, 2026

If anyone wants to know how the outrage machine gets fired up:

1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell”

2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender

3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets Schmitt talking points

4. Schmitt steps in it

5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway https://t.co/JGwTDzrP37

— Jim Lokay (@Lokay) September 29, 2026

OTOH:

Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith:

Ingraham (7-8pm): 0
Watters (8-9): 0
Hannity (9-10): 0
Gutfeld (10-11): 0
Fox & Friends this AM: 0

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 30, 2026

Sashay away, princess. https://t.co/CxcL1ThnvS

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 30, 2026

Like Trump, Hawley can’t say what the crime would be. And how many of the people he ran from on J6 were pardoned of their crimes?

Never forget, @HawleyMO https://t.co/VwUUsI2GRw

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 29, 2026

(We’re gonna need several constitutional amendments wh

An opinion about Kennedy: With his sterling education and considerable talents, he had a chance to be a real statesman, a "lion of the Senate." Instead, he chose to become another Fox troll, with cornpone. Our present age is, among other things, a diminishing one. https://t.co/NIfsuTXm2F

— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) September 30, 2026

I have a hunch the next Democrat president will appoint Jack Smith—who weaponized the Department of Justice in a jihad against Joe Biden’s enemies—as Attorney General

If this troubles you, please show up and vote for Republicans—not just in 2028, but also in this year’s midterms pic.twitter.com/EQH4e85uZf

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) September 30, 2026

Which conspiracy theory kinda explains this:

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) sent a four-page letter dated Wednesday to R. Culver Schmid, chairman of the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, accusing Smith of "serious misconduct" when he obtained senators' phone records during his investigation of Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Hagerty wrote that Smith subpoenaed Verizon for non-content records of calls made by Hagerty and other sitting senators. Along with the subpoena came a nondisclosure order barring Verizon from telling anyone about it, including the senators themselves. Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of Washington, D.C., issued the order.


The GOP senator argues that Smith's request to the judge left out the fact that the records belonged to members of Congress. He says it also left out the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause and a federal law that allows Senate service providers to notify the Senate of legal demands for its data.

As a result, Hagerty wrote, he never had a chance to challenge the subpoena, and he also claimed the order was "apparently also written by Smith, and rubber-stamped by the judge."

"Smith's actions have set a precedent that a legislator should think twice before answering the phone," Hagerty wrote.

The senator alleges that Smith violated rules requiring lawyers to be candid with courts in one-sided proceedings and he asked the board to seek "the most serious remedy possible — disbarment." He cited Smith's "lack of remorse" and a "chilling effect on legislative communications."

The letter says that when senators questioned Smith before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, he stated that "we submitted these nondisclosure orders consistent with the law and department policy."

Of all the things that will never happen, Jack Smith getting disbarred over this will never happen the most. (Key point: the records in question belong to the common carrier, not the customer.)