DODGE, DUCK, DIP, DIVE AND DODGE: Ron Johnson “Ducks Out The Back Door,” “Declined To Answer Questions” As Jan. 6 Questions Mount

CBS 58: “Reporters tried to ask questions but he left out the back door”

USA Today Network-Wisconsin (Editorial Board): “Johnson has proven by his past actions that he isn’t fit to be a U.S. senator. This latest episode only makes that more clear.”

News coverage is calling out Ron Johnson after he “snuck out the back of an event room and declined to answer questions” during “an increasingly rare appearance in Milwaukee” as questions continue to swirl around “stunning” revelations regarding his involvement in the January 6th insurrection.

See for yourself:

CBS 58: Sen. Johnson ducks out the back door as questions about alleged January 6 involvement swirl

Questions continue to swirl around Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson and his office’s alleged attempt to pass along a list of fake electors to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021. The senator’s story has changed several times in the past few days.
Senator Johnson made an increasingly rare appearance in Milwaukee Tuesday for a public event touting a jobs program. After the event, CBS 58 reporters tried to ask questions but he left out the back door and drove away without saying a word to reporters.
Johnson chose not to clarify a story that has changed significantly several times over the past week. One week ago, the Jan. 6 Committee revealed Johnson’s chief of staff tried to pass a slate of fake electors to Vice President Pence.
Johnson’s Milwaukee stop Tuesday signaled a rare opportunity to ask Johnson about the discrepancies, and whether or not he’s been subpoenaed or contacted by law enforcement about his alleged involvement.

CNN – Anderson Cooper 360 (WATCH):

Manu Raju: “On the way in and on the way out of an event he had this afternoon in Milwaukee, I tried to catch up to him, tried to ask him questions about the hearing, about what happened last week, and other issues as well. On the way he didn’t want to answer questions, and on the way out he snuck out the back of an event room and declined to answer questions.”
Manu Raju: “He has been under quite a bit of pressure over the fake electors issue as you mentioned after the committee did reveal last week that his chief of staff reached out to Pence’s office saying that the senator wanted to deliver fake electors for Wisconsin and Michigan. He has downplayed that when I have asked him that, last week and on several occasions. But he has also downplayed January 6th as well. suggesting it was not an armed insurrection. And when I tried to ask him about that as well, Anderson, no response.”
Anderson Cooper: “Yeah I mean, his comments about that it wasn’t an insurrection, there weren’t weapons, all that sort of stuff, it looked just particularly bad today. It’s understandable he would want to try to flee even though he didn’t use the phone excuse this time.”
Manu Raju: “That’s right. And he’s up for reelection in a very difficult race, this is a perennial swing state. Democrats have come after him on this issue.

CNN: GOP senator avoids CNN questioning about January 6 developments

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) avoided CNN and other reporters in Milwaukee, refusing to answer questions about the dramatic developments in the January 6 hearings and his handling of the fake electors issue.

WISN: Sen. Johnson confronted by protesters outside campaign event in Milwaukee

Johnson is facing criticism, one week after the Jan. 6 Committee named him in connection with a plot to deliver false Republican electors from Wisconsin and Michigan to Vice President Mike Pence. The committee has argued it was part of an attempt by former President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Johnson, who is seeking his third time in the U.S. Senate this fall, refused to take questions from reporters Tuesday, quickly leaving as the campaign roundtable concluded.

The more we learn about the role Wisconsin’s senior senator played in the days leading up to the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, the more things don’t add up.
And the more it looks like Johnson or his team may have aided a Trump administration conspiracy to overturn the lawful election of Joe Biden.
The latest revelations are stunning.
After the texts were revealed, Johnson claimed to have no knowledge of his chief of staff’s request that he hand-deliver fake electors from Wisconsin and Michigan to Pence. He called it a “nonstory,” saying he was “basically unaware” of the effort.

Then he changed his story. By Thursday of last week, Johnson was saying he had coordinated with a Wisconsin attorney to pass along the information and that the documents came from Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania — which Kelly’s office said was “patently false.”
Johnson has said the violence at the Capitol “didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.” Tell that to Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, who described in a committee hearing how she suffered a concussion while trying to hold the rioters back. “I was slipping in people’s blood. I was catching people as they fell. It was carnage.” She recalled seeing Officer Brian Sicknick, who died the next day, turn ghostly white after being sprayed with chemicals. She and others described the scene as a battlefield, which was apparent to anyone watching the scene on live television.
Johnson has proven by his past actions that he isn’t fit to be a U.S. senator. This latest episode only makes that more clear. The citizens of Wisconsin, regardless of party, should vote him out of office in November.

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