Senator Eric Schmitt

U.S. Senator, U.S. Senate · 1 appearance on the record.

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Eric Schmitt has served as a U.S. Senator from Missouri since 2023, after previously serving as Missouri's Attorney General and State Treasurer. He is known for legal challenges against federal censorship policies, including Missouri v. Biden, and for authoring The Last Line of Defense.

12statements → 8claims → 7claims resolved → 57%fully supported → 3.83/5average certainty → 3.42/5average debate potential → 3.5/5argument clarity · the sources →

4 supported 1 partly supported 2 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 7 assertions · 3 opinions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 7 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Senator argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Schmitt: CISA partnered with Stanford and UW to flag social media posts
“Take CISA, which is the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency. No one's ever heard of it. It was created effectively to protect infrastructure from cyber attacks. In that era when Trump was present underground, They work on, under the guise of Russian d…”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 26:57 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Schmitt: Fauci deposition revealed efforts to undermine Jay Bhattacharya over natural immunity
“When we had the opportunity to take Anthony Fauci's deposition at NIH that was mind blowing. It's only the second time his deposition was taken and we find out all the links that which he went to undermine people like, by the way, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who was…”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 28:18 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

3.5 / 5 directness 3.4 · coherence 3.1 · precision 3.4 · compression 2.8

redirected or did not address 3 of 8 assessed questions (38%). Watch them ▸

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: speaking style how? →

275 words/min while actually speaking · 16.8 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 5,365 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Senator Eric Schmitt said on All-In that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Schmitt: Federal censorship was the greatest First Amendment affront in US history
“Fast censorship enterprise that existed that, in my view, was the greatest affront to the First Amendment we've ever seen in the history of our country.”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 3:17 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Opinion
Senator Schmitt: Tech platforms suppressing viewpoints should lose Section 230 protections
“If you're going to start making these, whether it's a, you know, somebody individually is flagging it, or you have an algorithm that is essentially excluding 50% of the points of view, You should not get the multi-billion dollar subsidy that effectively what s…”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 17:28 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Assertion Supported
Schmitt: CISA partnered with Stanford and UW to flag social media posts
“Take CISA, which is the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency. No one's ever heard of it. It was created effectively to protect infrastructure from cyber attacks. In that era when Trump was present underground, They work on, under the guise of Russian d…”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 26:57 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Assertion Contradicted
Schmitt: Fauci deposition revealed efforts to undermine Jay Bhattacharya over natural immunity
“When we had the opportunity to take Anthony Fauci's deposition at NIH that was mind blowing. It's only the second time his deposition was taken and we find out all the links that which he went to undermine people like, by the way, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who was…”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 28:18 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Assertion Contradicted
Schmitt: Released DNI documents show Clinton was Russia's preferred candidate
“Actually in the documents that were released by Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, was that Hillary Clinton was the preferred candidate. They had the goods on her. They had her medical records, all this stuff. So Trump was not like this pref…”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 34:03 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Schmitt: Comey, Clapper, and Brennan are likely targets for Russiagate prosecutions
“But I think that like the most likely targets of that are Comey, Clapper and Brennan for their role.”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 37:41 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Assertion Supported
Schmitt: FBI possessed Hunter Biden's laptop in 2019 during pre-bunking efforts
“We took the deposition of Elvis Chan, who was the FBI agent in charge of Northern California that was pre-bunking the Hunter Biden laptop story, even though the FBI had the laptop in 2019, right?”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 5:05 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Opinion
Schmitt: The ACLU no longer protects free speech and focuses on censorship
“And even the ACLU actually did things like protect free speech. That's all gone now. Like that, there's no, like it's about power and control and limiting and labeling things, misinformation, disinformation to suppress speech.”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 7:52 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Assertion Partly supported
Schmitt: Biden kept classified documents without declassification authority as VP
“Joe Biden, Who wasn't ever president, he was vice president, who can't declassify documents, had boxes and boxes of classified documents in his garage where Hunter Biden lived.”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 41:11 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Assertion Supported
Schmitt: China currently has a larger Navy than the US
“Where China now has a bigger Navy than we have. Not a better Navy, but a bigger Navy.”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 48:28 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Assertion Supported
Senator Schmitt: Russia has five times Ukraine's population and triple the munitions
“Russia has five times the people, three times the munitions they have an industrial base.”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 52:45 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Disclosure
Schmitt: Missouri AG office prioritized discovery over immediate injunction in Biden lawsuit
“A really important strategic decision in the case was normally when you file a lawsuit like that, you immediately seek a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction to get the government or another party to stop what they're doing. But we felt like w…”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 4:23 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History Aug 21, 2025 24m
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