Trump paused the aid in mid-July, days before a phone call with Zelensky in which Trump asked for investigations into the Biden family and what happened in the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He relented and released the aid two months later amid bipartisan pressure from Congress and after a whistleblower complaint alleged he abused his power in freezing it to begin with.
The president has repeatedly denied the aid was contingent upon Ukraine announcing the investigations for which Trump asked, but testimony given to impeachment investigators in the House hasBut Johnson dismissed testimony from administration officials asserting that when Trump and his allies referred to fighting corruption in Ukraine, it was more specifically assumed to mean the Biden and election interference investigations.
“That is their impression,” Johnson said, adding: “I've never heard the president say, ‘No, I want to dig up dirt on a potential 2020 opponent.’” As for the investigation Trump had asked for into election interference, Johnson argued the request stemmed from a “human desire” by Trump to get to the bottom of why the first half of his first term in office had been bogged down by special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling and possible collusion by the Trump campaign.
But while there are several federal investigations ongoing into the origins of the Russia probe, Trump’s requests have focused on debunked conspiracy theories surrounding the 2016 election, namely that Ukraine was the real perpetrator of the interference rather than Russia, as the entire U.S. intelligence community has concluded.
He’s such a blatant sycophant, it’s sickening.
Republican Senators don’t want to hear the truth. They just want dip-head Koch lover Walker back. Senator Johnson said he’d never heard Biden mentioned in Ukraine deal by Trump/Giuliani/Perry.
rubleRon
LIAR Call him as a witness
Yep, he is one of the crowd!
Some people are just happy going down with the ship🤷🏾♀️
Liar
You are a disgrace. I'm sorry to say I am originally from Wisconsin.
What? He hadn’t heard it tied to Biden investigation Lying POS
Trump is one thing but how the GOP shows they have no values anymore and goes all the way with him is really embarrassing
You must live on another planet!
Hello Wisconsin! Let’s vote this guy OUT!
What a bunch of crock of ....
This guy SenRonJohnson is really something... he is going with “playing dumb” He can’t sign on to Trump conspiracy because he signed the letter asking Ukrainian prosecutor to step down.
If he didnt hear it tied to biden investigation he must be deaf as well as dumb.
I am mortified that I live in Wisconsin.
They are a bunch of racists.
Ron Johnson is a trump. I still can’t believe that he was voted in. Wisconsin used to be a very well educated State. I can’t even look at these people anymore. wipolitics
This guy's a puke!
Daily reminder that SenRonJohnson went to Russia on 7/4/2018....what was he doing there?
Just because he didn’t hear it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
Ron Johnson makes Joe McCarthy the 2nd worse Senator from his state
Johnson has already been proven a liar. Trump had no 'rationale' for freezing military aid to Ukraine except to extort Zelensky for investigation of the Bidens. If he had had any other reason, like Ukraine corruption, he could have explained that to Congress, but he did not.
So sick of the moving goal posts! As the senator\\congresspersons talk down to the American voters let’s show them we are smart and vote them all out!
These clowns need to stop enabling the man who has never told the truth about anything
Idiot
Well the reason you never heard about it being tied to a Biden investigation is because Trump lap dogs buried it so NO ONE would find out how corrupt Trump is. Also maybe you just hear what you choose to hear. Are you just another Trump lackey?
He’s full of you know what.
Sorry Republicans, not going to fly. Nice try.
Is there an intelligence test for GOP congressmen and if they pass they aren't allowed to serve?
Because Ron Johnson suffers from moral dementia.
Doesn’t know what he’s talking about....but let his mouth runneth over. He does more harm to the Republican cause when he flaps gums.
He should read the transcript!
He’s willfully stupid
Russian stooge.
Senator, I certainly hope that you are not attempting to convince others that because you did not hear any connection to a Biden investigation that it did not occur. Be very careful choosing your words here... your career 'may' hang in the balance.
Hey, wisgop/WisDems/UniteBlueWI, don't you deserve better than SenRonJohnson, the Russia-elected POTUS' Soviet-Sympathizer
(shrugging) He's just another trumpLiar
Unceasing criminality from this republican administration, unceasing excuses and denials from republican lawmakers and unceasing questionable practices from republican bureaucrats.
Neither has Lindsay Graham, but that's because he refuses to read the documents
SenRonJohnson it is very low IQ statement.
Johnson is a liar then
This investigation is a shame! It's the same deep state players that helped Bush orchestrate and win the 2001 and 2004 elections!
Then he doesn’t have eyes or ears
Wow, let's vote all of the GOP members out
RonJohnsonWI POTUS VP SenRickScott ndn SenJohnThune They have NO shame and NO brains. What an embarrassing GOP.
mterr337 Do he’s ok with breaking the law. The house should zero out any money going to his office
Of course he didn’t. Senator, would Trump ever be sympathetic to you?
“Sympathizer” to bribery then, nice. Hitch that wagon, Senator Johnson.
Tell SenRonJohnson to read the transcripts. SenateGOP
Except of him questioning Trump about it at the time? These morons can't keep their stories straight.
The REAL QUESTION to RON: WHY are people turning against him in droves, WHY does he have to fight off impeachment, WHY this phenomenon of numerous people from his administration constantly go to the press, write books or feel the need to get the truth out about this president?
Thought he heard it from Sonderland. So much spinning.
looser
If it was about corruption then why the release of funds after the whistle blower?
Then he was clearly out of the loop.
All I want for Christmas is for Americans is to hold Trump and all his corrupt GOP buddies accountable for their betrayal of our Constitution, the rule of law and the American people. We cannot let this stand. How we respond as a country to this will set precedent for the future.
Deliberate ignorance is one of the worst traits an elective official can demonstrate. Shame on you Sen RonJohnson!
What a load of crap.
From the state that gave us Joe McCarthy...
SenRonJohnson is a one time Senator and irrelevant to the scheme of things. Wisconsin will elect someone better than him next time around
JHC, Ron
What rock did he crawl out from?
I guess there’s a lot of wax in his ears!
Another Russian asset?
TOAD
RoJo the new BoZo
Trump might just be getting railroaded. Schiff, Pelosi and others have convinced the masses that Trump is guilty of an impeachable offense. Throughout history, wanna be dictators have convinced the masses that existing rulers were bad and had to go. The wanna bes took over.
So he lied.
SenRonJohnson should be removed. He cannot serve as a juror in the Senate. He’s part of the crime and impeachable offense.
Obviously Ron Johnson didn't hear Trump confess and hasn't read the transcript. TrumpConfessed TrumpColluded TrumpExtorted TrumpObstructed TrumpBetrayedOurAllies TrumpPedifile TrumpRapist TrumpSexTrafficker TrumpViolatesEmulatants TrumpConcintrationCamps ImpeachTrump
Let’s hope no one is “sympathetic” to Ron Johnson when he’s up for re-election. Wisconsin knows what to do.
Then I guess he didn’t listen to Mullvaney last week( or he has shit in his ears).
He may be 'sympathetic' to Trump, but he was pathetic this morning.
Willful ignorance.
These minions don't really understand their oath to the Constitution. Explain how this Senator would understand that oath.
None of them have any shame, whatsoever.
What a crock.
The start of the case for Republi-KLAN Party refusal to take up impeachment in the Senate! Even if accepted in the Senate it will be killed by the GOP who know they are finished!
Is he the only person who did not hear it tied to a Biden investigation?
WE HATE HIM IN WI.
Really? Put him under oath, and see if this what he says.
These inablers...ughhhh
🙄🙄🙄
That’s what Rick Perry said too. But now he has a lawyer.
Did Sen. Ron Johnson read the transcript released by the President, or any of the testimony? If not, he has no business speaking on this.
Everyone has the right to be a toady and a traitor. Strange choice, all for the love of Trump, but everyone has the right to be a jackass.
S'cuse me?
lickspittle
johnson must recuse himself from the impeachment process when it comes to the senate as must LeningradLindsey
It's hard to hear when your head is stuffed in a safe place.
WAIT,WHAT?!😈
Another liar
He’s retarded. Got it.
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