Sen. Ron Johnson: My Biden Probe Will 'Certainly' Help Trump Win

[turbinetree]

By Josh Kovensky
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August 14, 2020 10:39 a.m.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said this week that his investigation into Vice President Joe Biden “would certainly help Donald Trump win reelection,” as the probe continues to face down widespread allegations that it is laundering Russian disinformation.


Politico first reported the interview on Thursday evening.

“The more that we expose of the corruption of the transition process between Obama and Trump, the more that we expose of the corruption of those agencies, I would think it would certainly help Donald Trump win reelection and would certainly be pretty good evidence about not voting for Vice President Biden,” Johnson said in an appearance on a Minneapolis radio station.

Johnson has been publicizing long-discredited allegations surrounding Biden’s role in U.S. foreign policy towards Ukraine, and has also been probing alleged anti-Trump political maneuvering in the Obama-era intelligence community.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/sen-ron-johnson-my-biden-probe-will-certainly-help-trump-win

Hey Ron can I call you Ron ...................just maybe the citizens of Wisconsin should file a petition to have you recalled.................it is after all in the Wisconsin Constitution................

https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_governing_recall_in_Wisconsin

https://www.theballengerreport.com/why-dont-democrats-use-recall-to-change-u-s-senate-jurors-in-a-trump-impeachment-trial/

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There are some caveats. In 1967, a federal district court in Idaho held that U.S. Senator Frank Church was not covered under Idaho’s recall law. The New Jersey Supreme Court in 2010 said U.S. Senator Robert Menendez could not be recalled under the New Jersey recall law. A Michigan Circuit Court stopped a recall petition against Congressman Tim Walberg in 2007.

But none of those cases has any precedential value in Wisconsin. In fact, the Attorney General of Wisconsin in 1979 issued an opinion that the Wisconsin election agency could not reject a petition for the recall of a member of Congress. The Wisconsin Elections Commission published in February 2018 a Recall Manual for Congressional, County and State Officials. That Commission is the filing agency for the recall of a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.

There is historical precedent in Wisconsin for recall. A recall effort was launched in 1954 against U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy by a small-town newspaper editor. The “Joe Must Go” campaign was very much a grassroots effort that fell short. In 1990 a recall petition drive was launched against Congressman Dave Obey; it, too, was unsuccessful.

However, Wisconsin voters by 2012 were successful collecting enough signatures (signatures must equal 25% of the total vote last cast for governor in a jurisdiction in both Wisconsin and Michigan) to hold a June 2012 recall election against the incumbent governor, Scott Walker. In 2011-2012 a dozen state senators faced recall elections. Three senators lost their recall elections.

[bluedye33139]

1. The Ukrainian October surprise fell apart months ago

And Republicans still haven't figured it out

[turbinetree]

2. He should still be recalled.................

[madaboutharry]

3. Ron Johnson is a stupid man who married money and

had a father-in-law who set him up in business and provided the funds for him to get into politics.

This is the idiot that the voters of Wisconsin voted for twice over Rhodes Scholar and great public servant former Sen. Russ Feingold. Go figure.

[North Shore Chicago]

4. His probe

is impotent, next?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. I'm a bit unclear

as to what kind of new information he's going to uncover after nearly 4 years of Trump being in office and previous investigations that have never found the investigation of Trump as being biased or inappropriate (if anything the Mueller investigation treated Trump with kid gloves and Comey had no compunction about making dramatic announcements about his Hillary E-Mail Server during the course of the campaign but there were no such information provided about Trump's investigation).

[rockfordfile]

6. Russian Ron Johnson shows how un-American he is everyday.