Ron Johnson Looks Foolish on CNN
Claims Democrats have used fake electors, but could provide no examples.
Ron Johnson. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America / (CC BY-SA)
Ron Johnson has often been pilloried and pounded by the national media, even at times by conservatives, yet he keeps coming back for more.
On Monday evening. the Republican U.S. Senator from Wisconsin was interviewed by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who asked Johnson if Bob Spindell, who acted as a fake elector in favor of Donald Trump during the 2020 election, should be suspended from his role as board member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
Democratic officials, most recently Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski, have called for Spindell to be removed from his position. Spindell was one of 10 Wisconsin Republicans who posed as fake electors in the 2020 election and agreed last week to settle a lawsuit, by acknowledging that President Joe Biden won that election and agreeing not to serve in next year’s election or any other election that Trump runs in. Spindell also won national infamy for writing a message to Republicans celebrating their successful efforts to suppress the vote by Black and Hispanic citizens in Milwaukee 2022 midterm election.
But Johnson saw no reason for Spindell to step down and defended the fake electors. “There is nothing untoward about what they did. There is nothing illegal about what they did,” Johnson said. He emphasized that Democrats have “repeatedly” done the same thing “in all kinds of different states.”
In fact, there were fake electors in three other states in 2020 — in Michigan, Nevada and Georgia — but they were all by Republicans and all are being prosecuted.
But Johnson continued with his claim.
“These folks did nothing different than what many Democrats have done in many states throughout our history” Johnson insisted. “Democrat electors have done that repeatedly. It’s happened in different states.”
“Which ones, sir? Collins asked.
“I didn’t come prepared to give you the exact states,” Johnson stammered. “But it’s happened repeatedly. Just go check the books.”
“Which books?” Collins asked.
“There have been alternate slates of electors by Democrat electors in our history,” Johnson asserted. “Again, you didn’t—this wasn’t what this interview was going to be about,” he griped. “I’ll come and I’ll provide you the information, but I’m absolutely certain about that.”
Collins promised to share that information with viewers, should Johnson ever provide it.
Don’t hold your breath.
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- Documents Suggest Trump Fake Elector Scheme Originated In Wisconsin - Rich Kremer - Mar 8th, 2024
- Lawyers Who Conceived and Executed the 2020 Fake Elector Scheme Agree Not to Participate in a Similar Scheme in Any Future Presidential Election - Law Forward - Mar 4th, 2024
- Former Wisconsin GOP Chair Said He Feared Trump Supporters During Fake Elector Scheme - Robert D'Andrea - Feb 19th, 2024
- New Call For Bob Spindell To Resign Elections Post - Anya van Wagtendonk - Feb 9th, 2024
- Former Wisconsin GOP Chair Says Fake Electors Were ‘Tricked’ - Anya van Wagtendonk - Dec 19th, 2023
- Back In The News: Ron Johnson Looks Foolish on CNN - Bruce Murphy - Dec 13th, 2023
- Secretary of State Godlewski calls on Senator LeMahieu to remove Robert Spindell Jr. from WEC for submitting a fraudulent Certificate of Votes - Sarah Godlewski - Dec 11th, 2023
- Op Ed: Wisconsin a Major Front in War Against Democracy - Ruth Conniff - Dec 10th, 2023
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Oh, my dear home state Wisconsin, why oh why did you return this character to represent us in the U.S. Senate?!? Five more years of this level of outright lying?
Thanks for the story in Urban MKE – I don’t watch CNN so I would have missed Ron Johnson’s performance entirely but for this coverage.
gosh, he’s been quiet for so long i forgot he was my senator. too bad. he is and he remains as stupid as he was when silly wisconsinites re-elected him.
@tornado75 how have you not heard? He’s constantly saying Pro-Putin-Agenda drek.
When Ron Johnson is being interviewed by a network, I always expect to see “Senator DORK” as the person they are talking to in the lower 1/4 of the screen.
Thank god for Tammy Baldwin
He is truly a stupid person. Shame on WI for re-electing him particularly when he flip-flopped and ran again.
Slap a “successful businessperson” label on a candidate and Republican voters line up. No matter that he married into money, earned success at his father-in-law’s business, and used the subsequent windfall to get elected.
It is entertaining sometimes to see the hot air flapping around in that empty suit in the same way one is amused by the acrobatics of a bag blowing on the wind.
RonJon the fabulist
Should patent his pretensions
The Edison of politics
His “facts” are pure inventions
How did Ron Jon get reelected? He played the race card and enough Wisconsin voters bought it. What does this say about Wisconsin voters?
Besides being a Dork, uninterested in serving Wisconsin residents, Ron Jon is also a racist. He is no better than the likes of George Wallace and Strom Thurmond. They were both hypocrites; another characteristic they share with Ron Jon.
Johnson NEEDS TO GO! Bumbling idiot.
What an embarrassment to the State of Wisconsin. Add up the IQ’s of RonJon, Tuberville, Gosar, MJT, Boebert and Jordan and you’d be hard pressed to reach that of the average 5th grader.
Let’s not forget to thank idiot Mandela Barnes. His campaign was a joke
and a disaster. 30,000 fewer people voted in Milwaukee County with him
on the ballot. They knew he was a joke. Evers was only to happy to dump him.
An amoeba could have beat this criminal
and clown ROJO that makes Joe McCarthy
look like George Washington.
apparently not. seemanmkw where have you been.