Johnson for the better part of a decade, and he has no knowledge of the claims Mr. Kelly’s office told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that the congressman “has not spoken to Sen. And, Johnson also acknowledged – in an interview with a local radio station – that he had coordinated, via text message, with his chief of staff and Dane Count attorney Jim Troupis to make sure Pence got the Wisconsin fake elector slate.īut, wait, there’s more. Johnson, in this retelling, was wholly uninvolved.Įxcept, well, Johnson’s story started to change as the week went on.īy Thursday, Johnson said that the fake elector slates had come from the office of Pennsylvania Rep. So, according to Johnson, a “staff intern” from the House somehow got a hold of a fake slates of electors from two swing states and was trying to pass them to the vice president of the United States. Raju : “Are you curious about the identity of this person? Do you want to ask about it?” But, but, but somebody from the House delivered to a staff member in my office, my chief of staff called the vice president, ‘hey, we got this.’ And the vice president said ‘don’t deliver it,’ and we didn’t.” Johnson : “We didn’t know – literally don’t – it was a staff to staff – somebody from the House, some staff intern, you know, said we got to, the vice president needs this or whatever. Raju : “Are you gonna ask your aides about who this person was? Have you asked–” Again, this, this, this lasted a couple minutes in our office. I mean, it apparently had Michigan and Wisconsin. Johnson : “No, it was a staff-to-staff deal.
Reporter : “And who, do you remember who gave it to you?” Reporter : “Was that the first you had heard of it when you received the envelope?” It’s a non-story – guys this is such a non-story.” So we called, we called up the vice president, he didn’t want it. Johnson : “We got handed an envelope that was supposed to go to the vice president, I didn’t know. Raju : “But why did you even offer it without vetting it?” Raju : “Why did you just deliver that to the vice president without vetting it or asking more questions about it?” He didn’t want it, we didn’t send it to him. My staff – my chief of staff did the right thing, he called up the vice president. Johnson : “These things were delivered to our office – I didn’t know they were coming.
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Because it’s important, here’s the full exchange on Tuesday afternoon between Johnson, CNN’s Manu Raju and other reporters: (Pence’s head of legislative affairs put the kibosh on the move before it ever happened.)Īsked about his involvement, Johnson, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, said that he knew nothing about it. Last week, in a hearing of the 1/6 committee, we learned that Johnson’s chief of staff had attempted to coordinate the hand-off of a slate of fake electors from Michigan and Wisconsin to Vice President Mike Pence. Ron Johnson can’t seem to get his story straight.
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