Ron Johnson Brands Colleague a Liar, Airs Election Conspiracies in Unhinged Senate Hearing

[Zorro]

Numerous judges have dismantled election fraud claims but the Republican senator gave them airtime again on Wednesday.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), chair of the Senate Homeland Security committee, aired legally debunked theories of election fraud and accused his Democratic counterpart of lying during a bizarre Senate hearing on Wednesday.

“Joe Biden won our state by 20,000 votes,” Johnson told Trump’s top Wisconsin lawyer, Jim Troupis, during an exchange about a court case that the state’s majority-Republican Supreme Court rejected. “You’re talking about over 200,000 votes that are outside our law, that if the law had been followed, probably should not have been counted.”

Johnson’s position, though still shared by the president, is growing increasingly unpopular within his own party. Outgoing Attorney General William Barr stated earlier this month that the Justice Department found no evidence of widespread election fraud. Earlier this week, several Senate Republicans—including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)—acknowledged Biden as president-elect for the first time.

When Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), the committee’s ranking member, referenced foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election, Johnson launched into a vigorous rant about disinformation. He claimed that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and Democrats were the true “purveyors” of Russian propaganda.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-johnson-brands-gary-peters-a-liar-airs-election-conspiracies-in-unhinged-senate-hearing

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. fucking (compromised) lunatic

[Talitha]

3. THIS

[maxsolomon]

2. "You have to Dominate" -the President of the United States

Yelling, talking over people, shouting them down; that's how Republicans dominate.

[AleksS]

4. A guy who goes to Moscow on the 4th of July

....well, let’s just say it doesn’t look good.

[Gothmog]

6. Ron Johnson is a russian asset

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. "Asset" may be too strong a word. Russian automaton, maybe?

Sometimes I think I can see the strings.