Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is a wild conspiracy nut just like the late former GOP Senator also from WI, Joe McCarthy. What is it with WI and U.S. senators like those two – must be the water, or he is Joe McCarthy reincarnated?
Case in point this latest BS from Johnson here from Salon.com and this headline:
“Ron Johnson
blames Democrats’ Trump impeachment travesty for Putin’s
invasion of Ukraine”
Johnson on February 27 (and of course on FOX News) accused
Democrats of paving the way for Putin to invade Ukraine.
According to the senator's somewhat tortured logic, the
first impeachment of Trump, over his attempt to blackmail
the Ukrainian president, somehow empowered Putin's
aggression.
Johnson appeared on Fox News as numerous Republicans over the
weekend issued statements blaming President Biden for Putin's
aggression, even though it was Trump who sought to
withhold defense aid — already authorized by Congress — from Ukrainian
President Zelensky unless the latter helped Trump smear Biden in the 2020
election. Johnson spread the blame widely, suggesting that Biden, Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, and impeachment witness Lt. Col.
Alexander Vindman were all responsible after they
tried to hold Trump accountable for the blackmail scheme led by Rudy Giuliani.
Johnson told Fox News: “I don't think Vladimir Putin would
have moved on Ukraine were it not for the weakness displayed ― certainly by the
Biden administration, but by the West in general. I'm certainly hoping that
Col. Vindman, Adam Schiff, and Nancy Pelosi ― who used Ukraine as a pawn in
their impeachment travesty ― are also recognizing and reflecting about how they
weakened Ukraine, the West, and weakened America by the divisive politics that
they play.”
Johnson then added: “There's much blame to go around, but in terms of
atrocities, that falls squarely on the shoulders of Vladimir Putin and his cronies.”
Johnson notably did not place any of the blame on
Trump, who himself withheld nearly
$400 million in military aid in an effort to
pressure Zelensky into launching an investigation into Biden's family over an
alleged corruption scandal.
Congress had approved the
aid to help Ukraine battle Russian aggression, and Trump finally released the
money after coming under pressure from lawmakers on
both sides of the aisle once the scheme was exposed.
At that time, Zelensky repeatedly sought a meeting with
Trump, which the former president never
granted, while repeatedly trying to ingratiate himself to Putin.
Zelensky was finally
welcomed to the White House last year after Biden took office.
Johnson supported Trump during both of the former
president's impeachment trials and played a key role in helping Trump stoke
conspiracy theories about Russia and Ukraine.
In 2020, the FBI warned Johnson, who was then chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, of a Russian disinformation scheme involving Giuliani as a go-between.
But Johnson
just blew off the warning as “completely useless and unnecessary.”
Johnson then met with a former Ukrainian
diplomat friendly to Russia, who pushed baseless
allegations that it was the Ukrainian government, not the Russians, who had
interfered in the 2016 election, as part of Johnson's effort to help Trump spin
his connections to Russia during the 2019 impeachment proceedings.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who led Trump's impeachment proceedings in
the House, wrote on Twitter that: “Johnson is clearly confused.”
Schiff continued: “It was Trump who
withheld military aid from Ukraine. It was Trump who demanded a favor from
Zelensky (get dirt on Joe Biden) in exchange for the aid. It was Trump who
weakened Ukraine. And it was Senator Johnson who voted to acquit Trump. Sit
this one out, Senator.”
RELATED: Army
LTC Alex Vindman (Ret.): How Trump's coup attempt encouraged Putin's Ukraine
invasion
My 2 Cents: Why can’t people like Sen. Ron Johnson, the staunch
Trump GOP base, and the growing number of members in Congress just wake up and
see Trump for what he is truly is: A skilled yet very dangerous con artist
selling snake oil that they all love to drink.
This is probably worse
than the cyanide-laced punch drink that killed over 900 people at Jonestown as
part of the Jim Jones cult … these Trump cult members are just a blind as that those
in Jonestown were; only now with millions of followers not just a few hundred.
All this is very worrisome to witness in our country. It will get worse, bet on
it.
This story above proves my
point. Stay alert and helpful anyway you can to help reveal the truth and stop
the madness sweeping the country now again under and for Trump.
Thanks for stopping by.
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