And Here’s Why Ron Johnson Has His Undies In a Bundle Over Ukraine!

Well just a few weeks ago we documented Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson’s meltdown and rabid defense of President Donald Trump.

But now we have a clearer picture of the situation. The senator is up to his eyeballs in the Ukraine. Meetings with a number of leaders, relaunching a number of bogus conspiracy theories, and being aware of the Rudy Giuliani back channel diplomacy. Now granted, the senator has a role in Ukraine relations via his position in the Senate as the chairman of the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee…but he seems to have stretched that role all out of shape here.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson discussed a conspiracy theory about Ukrainian involvement in the 2016 election with a Ukrainian diplomat this summer, further drawing the Republican from Oshkosh into issues at the heart of the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. 

The Washington Post reported Monday that Johnson met with Ukrainian diplomat Andrii Telizhenko for at least 30 minutes in July. Telizhenko told the newspaper he talked to Johnson about an unsubstantiated claim that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election and that in addition to his conversation with Johnson he met with Senate staff for about five hours.

Johnson and his aides have repeatedly declined to answer questions from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for more than two weeks. 

Johnson’s name has come up in key closed-door testimony over impeachment

But given all of that, if there is an impeachment and a trial is held in the Senate, would the good senator recuse himself? Well, HELL NO! (despite the fact that he could be considered an un-indicted co-conspirator but that’s another article sometime)

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said Tuesday that his close involvement in Ukraine issues would not cause him to recuse himself from a Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

“I represent the people that elected me. Those individuals deserve a voice and my vote in the process. I would never even consider it,” Johnson said of recusal, speaking in a brief interview at the U.S. Capitol with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.  

The senior senator from Wisconsin has taken on a unique role in the impeachment saga, largely because of his own close involvement with Ukraine issues, as chair of the foreign relations subcommittee on Europe and as a member of the Senate’s bipartisan Ukraine Caucus. That placed him in conversations and meetings that are being scrutinized by House investigators.

But relying on his own stable genius, the senator has failed to look out for himself. He may want to reconsider his positions as the impeachment inquiry continues and moves out into the open.

Johnson said he has not sought legal representation to deal with the impeachment inquiry.

Whoa oh! You know?

Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla. and a member of both the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees — said she may want Johnson to appear.

“If his name keeps coming up then we definitely want to hear from him,” she said of Johnson.

And just when you think that Senator Johnson can’t embarrass Wisconsin any further, he manages to cover new ground. sigh.

But anyway…we’ll give the senator the last word for now…because in the near future he’s gonna have a lot of “splainin'” to do!

…Johnson said that if there is an impeachment trial in the Senate, “I will approach it very seriously. I will respect the other house of Congress. If they vote articles of impeachment, we’ll take it up in the Senate. I will listen to the case very respectfully. I will not prejudge anything.”