Investigate Ron Johnson's Role in the January 6 Coup Attempt

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Investigate Ron Johnson’s Role in the January 6 Coup Attempt
The senator played a part in Trump’s scheme, and his actions need to be investigated by the January 6 Committee and the Department of Justice.

By John Nichols
JUNE 30, 2022


(The Nation) The House’s inquiry into the January 6 Capitol attack is shedding light on the role members of Congress played in Donald Trump’s scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Americans now know that several Republican members of Congress were so wrapped up in Trump’s coup attempt that they sought preemptive pardons to protect them from prosecution for what they obviously understood to be a criminal conspiracy.

But nothing that has come out so far has provided a clearer insight into the plotting than the revelations regarding the activities of US Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and his aides and associates on the day of January 6, 2021. As was revealed last week during an extraordinary session of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, a top aide to Johnson contacted a top aide to Vice President Mike Pence shortly before the certification of the Electoral College votes that would confirm the election of Democrat Joe Biden.

The Johnson aide indicated that the senator was interested in delivering to the vice president—who would preside over the proceedings—alternative lists of electors from the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan. The fake electors were pledged to Trump, who lost the popular vote by more than 7 million ballots nationwide and who lost Wisconsin, Michigan, and three other states that had voted for the Republican four years earlier.

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Confronted by reporters on Capitol Hill about the news, Johnson claimed he was ignorant of most of the details. The senator told CNN’s Manu Raju he didn’t know who had delivered the lists of fake electors to his office. But he did admit, “I was aware that we got this package and that somebody wanted us to deliver it, so we reached out to Pence’s office.” He also acknowledged that, at an incredibly volatile moment, he and his aides failed to vet the package that was to be delivered to the vice president.

“We got handed an envelope that was supposed to go to the Vice President,” Johnson said. He claimed, “I wasn’t involved,” and said, “[There’s] no conspiracy here. This is a complete non-story, guys. Complete non-story.”

But, of course, it was a story. And Johnson was lying about it. Several days after the committee released the text messages, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noted, “After initially claiming to be ‘basically unaware’ of an effort by his staff to get fake presidential elector documents to Vice President Mike Pence, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Thursday he coordinated with a Wisconsin attorney to pass along such information.” Specifically, the paper reported, Johnson “acknowledged he coordinated with Dane County attorney Jim Troupis and his chief of staff by text message that morning to get to Pence a document Troupis described as regarding ‘Wisconsin electors.’” .............(more)

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ron-johnson-january-6/

[Firestorm49]

1. Lie, lie, lie and lie some more........until you're exposed as the dope that you really are.

Johnson is and has been from the start, an embarrassment to the state of WI., and is not ashamed to promote all of the worst attributes of the GOP.

[gab13by13]

2. Will it help Johnson's case

that he voted to confirm Merrick Garland?

[Firestorm49]

3. I guess we'll have to ask Garland.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. And they were concerned about ballot harvesting.

[hydrolastic]

5. OK, So the committee looks into it.. Now what? Is there a process to remove a Senator?

IDK. Just looking ahead.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Investigate ALL of the republican House and Senate members. I think that quite a few of them...

were involved in this insurrection in some shape or manner. I am kind of getting pissed off that Garland has grabbed and charged, and found guilty over 700 Oath Keepers / Proud Boys for their roles in the 1/6 insurrection but not one House member, not one Senate member, not any of the lawyers dispensing idiotic advice, not djt, none of the big shots yets.