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I got as an email.
Dangerous thing to do--just will plant more doubt in elections.
UpNorthNews info@upnorthnewswi.com via gmail.mcsv.net
May 20, 2021, 3:35 PM (13 hours ago)
to me
Ron Johnson Says He's Going to Do His Own Investigation of the Capitol Insurrection
Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson voted Wednesday against forming a bipartisan commission to investigate the origins of the riot by Trump supporters at the US Capitol that disrupted the tallying of electoral votes and forced him and other lawmakers to flee for their lives.
Johnson, a Trump supporter who favored overturning states' election outcomes, told a right-wing cable channel that he is conducting his own examination.
Im doing my own investigation to really accurately recreate what happened on Jan. 6th," said Johnson. By and large it was peaceful protests, except for there were a number of peoplebasically agitators that whipped the crowd and breached the Capitoland thats really the truth of whats happening here."
Johnson faced widespread criticism last year for pushing false accusations about the election, advancing Russian propaganda with hearings looking into long-discredited claims involving Ukraine, and downplaying the coronavirus pandemic. Since the riot, Johnson has repeatedly downplayed the violence and intent of the seditionists who stormed halls of Congress. And he was roundly excoriated in March for saying he did not feel threatened by the mob but would have if it had been part of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The fact of the matter is even calling it insurrectionit wasnt, Johnson said last night.
Link to tweet
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ALSO:
RonJohn Claims Hes Doing His Own Investigation To Accurately Recreate Capitol Attack
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ronjohn-claims-hes-doing-his-own-investigation-to-accurately-recreate-capitol-attack
By Zoë Richards May 20, 2021 9:59 a.m.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Wednesday railed against a bill for a bipartisan commission intended to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, suggesting he was at work on his own investigation into the events which he claimed had involved peaceful protests and a few agitators.
Im doing my own investigation to really accurately recreate what happened on January 6th but Nancy Pelosis commission is not going to dig into this in any bipartisan fashion, Johnson said during a Fox News interview. She gets to pick all of the staff members. This is a joke and should be voted down. ........................................
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Rep. John Katko (R-NY) who led negotiations for the legislation, said the assertion that the investigators would be selected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) who has been pressing for the bipartisan action were false.
This is about facts. Its not partisan politics, Katko said on the House floor Wednesday. The commission creates the rules as a team. They then hire as a team, he added.
Walleye
(31,028 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Or was it Obama?
JohnSJ
(92,219 posts)mucifer
(23,550 posts)underpants
(182,829 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)and bear-sprayin folk and beatin the po-po with fire extinguishers and all this other friendly free-speechifyin -- and then suddenly all outta nowhere comed these outside agitators tryin to make us look violent!"
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)For the taxpayers. Your job, sonny, is to do stuff that benefits the state...
Hugin
(33,164 posts)Who cares?
MiHale
(9,734 posts)and take those denying asspacks back in time, then put Johnson in a police uniform and place him between 2 doors with tourists to peacefully try to crush his fucking brain.
Show to us the peaceful way to bear spray someone, I must be doing it wrong.
Teach me how to use a flagpole to beat the crap outta someone...kindly.
And on and on...
Comfortably_Numb
(3,809 posts)orleans
(34,060 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(5,134 posts)The crew of the Mystery Machine is (mostly) competent and solves problems... something a rethug could never be.
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)He's making an attempt to discredit any real investigation, heading it off at the pass as it were.
JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)Who's going to pay for this whitewash? We aren't without congressional approval, and we know it's not coming out of his pocket. Perhaps an impartial third party like the John Barron investigative committee.
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)So far, to fund all this bullshit, I'm sure there will be ample funds to destroy the democracy.
Champp
(2,114 posts)Many people say.
rpannier
(24,330 posts)Danascot
(4,690 posts)johnthewoodworker
(694 posts)2naSalit
(86,647 posts)A kid from my early days, we were five or six, and he annoyed me every day. One day I was on my back steps and about to enjoy a lollypop my mom had just given me when Billy came along and assured me it was his as he snatched it from my hand and put it in his mouth. I nailed him. I'm sure I got in a few good licks as he ran home crying but I got in trouble for fighting while being a girl.
He has the same eyes and goofy look. I can't say what I want to about him at this point, I kind of like having my personal freedom while it lasts.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)It's as full of shit as Ron Johnson, that's for damn sure.
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)Historic NY
(37,451 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,759 posts)Major networks should be showing the world how bad it was.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,759 posts)will be done. Fingers crossed.
FalloutShelter
(11,869 posts)They are on their own planet playing by their own rules. The only way to stop this is to suffocate it. The MSM needs to shut this down by denying it oxygen. DON'T COVER IT.
catbyte
(34,403 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)KS Toronado
(17,259 posts)That'll be the only proof Johnson needs to never find the head agitator, or any of them.
Botany
(70,516 posts)Maine Abu El Banat
(3,479 posts)Can find his dick without the assistance of a staffer.
Roy Rolling
(6,918 posts)How much did this statement cost Putin?
Danascot
(4,690 posts)Maeve
(42,282 posts)Don't confuse him with "facts" whatever THEY are!
marmar
(77,081 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,261 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)...now he has to "investigate" his way to that conclusion.
The United States of Corruption.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)Aristus
(66,388 posts)but anti-vaxx propaganda...
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You could have had Russ Feingold, Wisconsin.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)Marcuse
(7,488 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)Captain Zero
(6,811 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)rsdsharp
(9,186 posts)Assuming you could find one, of course.
bucolic_frolic
(43,188 posts)I'm wet with anticipation of the waxy martial arts skills.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)And office space in the Kremlin - RonJohns home away from home
peggysue2
(10,832 posts)Just saying.