Madison, Wisconsin (AP) – Aide to U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson told a team of former Vice President Mike Pence that the Wisconsin Republican wants to pass on Pence fake votes to voters from his state and neighboring Michigan. by choice of the Chamber investigating the uprising of January 6, 2021, showed.
Johnson’s spokeswoman Alexa Henning downplayed the texts after they were first made public during a committee hearing in Washington, but did not deny that Johnson wanted to hand over Pence’s fake voter list by hand.
“The senator was not involved in creating an alternative voter list and did not know it would be delivered to our office,” Henning wrote on Twitter. “It was a staff exchange. His new chief of staff contacted the vice president’s office. The vice president’s office said not to give it to him, and we did not. No further action was taken. End of story. “
Johnson planned to object to the admission of voters to states where he said the results were contested. He signed the Arizona voters’ objection, which occurred before the attack, but then voted to accept those voters later. He did not object to the acceptance of Wisconsin’s votes, but two Republican congressmen from the state did.
The evidence presented shows feedback between Johnson’s aide Sean Riley and Pence staff member Chris Hodgson at 12:37 p.m., Jan. 6, 2021.
“Johnson needs to give something to VPOTUS, please advise him,” Riley wrote to Hodgson.
“What is?” Hodgson replied.
“An alternative voter list for MI and WI because the archivist didn’t get them,” Riley wrote.
Hodgson replied, “Don’t give him that.”
Wisconsin Republicans met in the state’s Capitol on December 14, 2020, the same day that 10 Democrat voters cast their ballots for Biden, who overcame the state of the battlefield with just under 21,000 votes. They forwarded their votes for Trump to the National Archives, arguing that they are trying to preserve Trump’s legal capabilities in the event that a court overturns Biden’s victory.
Wisconsin’s bipartisan election commission refused to punish the fake voters, saying no election laws had been violated. The fraudulent voters are now on trial in Wisconsin by a liberal law firm that is seeking $ 2.4 million in damages.
Other evidence shown at Tuesday’s hearing shows that Trump’s campaign team wanted fake Wisconsin voters to take the documents to Washington.
“Trump’s damn idiots want someone to send original election documents to the Senate president,” Mark Jefferson, executive director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, wrote on Jan. 4. “They will call one of us to tell us exactly what the hell is going on.”
Johnson met with Wisconsin lawmakers later in 2021 to discuss the dissolution of the state’s bipartisan election commission and the imposition of the Republican-controlled legislature to take over the presidential and federal elections.
Opponents of Johnson’s Democrats jumped out of the revelation of Tuesday’s hearing and called on him to resign.
“Ron Johnson has been actively trying to undermine this democracy,” Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes said in a statement calling for Johnson’s resignation. “He literally tried to hand over fake ballots to Mike Pence. Ron Johnson has once again proved that he is a danger to our country and our fundamental rights.
Other Democratic candidates, including Treasurer Sarak Godlewski and Outagami County Executive Director Tom Nelson, have made similar comments, calling for his resignation. Alex Lasry, executive director of the Milwaukee Bucks, called Johnson a “rebel traitor and a threat to our democracy,” but stopped urging him to resign, saying the only way Johnson could leave was if he was defeated in November.
Nelson, who earlier called on Johnson to be called to testify before the committee on Jan. 6, said the revelations “go beyond anything I could have imagined about how far Ron Johnson would go to undo our election result in Wisconsin.” “.
He called on the Justice Department to investigate Johnson.
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