After Trump's second impeachment trial (!), Wisconsin's Republican Senator, Ron Johnson, sent a lie-filled letter to Wisconsinites. In it he purports to “explain” his vote to acquit the Orange Abomination for inciting far-right militants and rabid Trumpists to attack the nations' Capitol. When the letter isn't oozing spin and deflection, it is delusional, scatter-brained and unintentionally hilarious.
That is Johnson in a nutshell.
Johnson: “Peaceful protesting is constitutionally protected, but there were agitators and others at the Capitol that day who became violent and broke laws.”
Johnson commits a whopping lie of omission here. Those “agitators and others,” (these being deceitfully neutral and apolitical monikers), were in fact far-right militants, Trump supporters and Republicans. Johnson never owns their identity or admits their allegiance. Once arrested, dozens of them told authorities they acted on Trump's encouragement. "I believed I was following the instructions of former President Trump," said Garret Miller in a statement released through his lawyer.
Johnson's guile in his characterization of the insurrectionists is vile. He knows they were Trumpists. And they didn't suddenly and/or unexpectedly become violent and break laws. Trump's speech to them earlier that morning ignited their already-stoked inclination to violence. Johnson is willfully blind to this mob's allegiance, and to the mafia-don language their leader used to insinuate what the mob should do. Johnson is deflecting blame from the Mango Mussolini, carrying water like a good water boy...
So, Senator Seditionist, let ME make one thing clear: Those “agitators” were not Biden supporters armed with decorations to spruce up the Capitol before the inauguration, who suddenly turned violent when they were not allowed access. Nor were they a cabal of Antifa factions “disguised” as Trump supporters (Gawdamighty! The right-wing spin machine went supersonic to spew that one!).
This was a mob of far-right militants and delusional Trump supporters who bought into the ridiculous lie that the election was “stolen” from Trump. And you, Ron Johnson, are to blame for perpetuating and amplifying that lie. You are to blame for stoking the fires of their violence, for the loss of life during and after the insurrection, and for the property damage to our nation's Capitol.
You, Ron Johnson, alleged again and again that widespread voter fraud altered the outcome of the 2020 election, but you never produced a shred of evidence, actual evidence, to substantiate your delusion. You and your staff of sycophants had the time and the resources to gather evidence, and you didn't. You couldn't. It wasn't there to find. Instead, you uttered vacuous non-statements such as: "The fact of the matter is that we have a(n) unsustainable state of affairs in this country where we have tens of millions of people that do not view this election result as legitimate."
You can expect this kind of blather when an idiot gobbles air and then squeezes his cranial bladder until it flatulates. That sentence says a lot of nothing. It is weasel-speak. It presents no evidence of voter fraud. It attempts to substitute supposed optics for evidence. But it does confirm that right-wing media outlets have misled and deceived their devotees. These wing-nut noise machines that masquerade as “news sources” never mention, nor did you mention in your letter to Wisconsinites, that over eighty lawsuits, filed nationwide, alleging widespread voting fraud or substantial election irregularities in the 2020 Presidential election, were rejected or dismissed for lack of evidence.
Evidence. Get some. Or shutup.
Johnson's letter is a shoddy picket fence that cannot hide the landfill of lies and lunacy this fool has mass-produced. Nor can it mask the stench of his role as a slavish, wild-eyed apologist for tyranny and Fascism. Johnson, you see, cannot control his-outgassing...
Nothing about this fool's voting record, his public statements, or his trip to Moscow on July 4th,2018 says “Public Servant.” And here I present actual evidence, yes, evidence, his own words, to back that up. Interviewed after that poorly-timed trip, the idiot-puppet said:
“I've been pretty upfront that the election interference- as serious as that was, and unacceptable- is not the greatest threat to our democracy...We've blown it way out of proportion.”
Funny thing, Ron, how your own words can come back to bite you in the ass. Isn't it your latest fantasy of... wait for it...election interference (!), that now, suddenly, has your undies in a bundle?
Actual interference in the 2016 Presidential election by Russia- no big deal. The “result” is what matters. The Gobshite of the Golden Throne “won,” so, Dorothy, there's nothing to see behind that curtain.
But imagined interference in the 2020 Presidential election- Well now, this calls for a special session of the Sedition Caucus. Gotta file some baseless lawsuits alleging voter fraud. Fire the spin cannons! Gotta delay or suspend the certification of the Electoral College Votes! Gotta get this “investigated!” (might take months, so it’s best if Adolph Twitler returns as Caretaker Maximus until we get this “mess” “sorted” and obtain the “right” result!) Gotta stir up right-wing militants to do our dirty work and give our Fascist activities and tyrant-worshipping cult leaders the necessary deniability.
No concept of irony bouncing around in Johnson's cranial vacuum, that's for sure...
...no concepts of integrity, civic duty, pubic service, democracy, adherence to oath of office or morality either...
What a reprehensible creature, a shoddy imitation of a human being, a dancing puppet, a hollow man…
Bibliography
https://abcnews.go.com/US/president-trump-dozen-capitol-rioters-trumps-guidance/story?id=75757601
https://www.wpr.org/ron-johnson-doubles-down-calls-investigation-2020-election-fiery-interview
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/the-election-is-over-but-ron-johnson-keeps-promoting-false-claims-of-fraud.html