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Eric Schmitt was right not to step in the apology trap

Columnist Bill McClellan writes: A mistaken basketball-game accusation leads to a larger question: Is there still room in American politics for admitting you were wrong?

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch· Oct 3, 12:00 PMEric Schmitt was right not to step in the apology trap

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Eric Schmitt refuses to apologize for false Jack Smith perjury claimSen. Eric Schmitt confused the Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team with the Atlanta Hawks during a Jack Smith senate hearing, falsely accusing him of perjury.

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Schmitt's smoking gun backfires on himTuesday was supposed to be a big day for Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt, a little-known first-term junior Senator whose main claim to fame thus far was the 25 lawsuits he filed against President Joe Biden’s administration in a span of 20 months while Missouri’s attorney general.

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Humiliated Republican pulls plug on interview as embarrassing new details trickle outSen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who went from obscurity to late-night punchline after his "gotcha" attack on former special counsel Jack Smith collapsed, has pulled out of a scheduled TV appearance as embarrassing details about the episode keep surfacing, according to the Daily Beast.Schmitt tried to bait...

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Other voices: Eric Schmitt’s playground airballs fall flat"As Klobuchar chided Schmitt for his recklessness and his 'dirtbag' comment, Missouri’s junior senator growled: 'I stand by that statement,'" the writers say.

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