Temporary seditionist
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Ron Johnson explains that his involvement with trying to overthrow the government was actually quite brief:
“What would they ask me to testify about?” Johnson said.
“The Republican electors,” Smith noted, referring to a fake slate of electors that Johnson was asked to deliver to then-Vice President Mike Pence in an effort to steal the election from Joe Biden.
“Again, another grotesque distortion,” Johnson complained. “I had nothing to do with the alternate slate. I had no idea anybody was going to ask me to deliver those. My involvement in that — that attempt to deliver spanned the course of a couple seconds.”
The senator said that he “fielded three texts and sent two and talked to my chief of staff that somebody wants to deliver something.”
“I knew nothing about it,” he added. “In the end, those electors were not delivered because we found out from the vice president’s staff they didn’t want them delivered. End of story. I know that’s been blown out of proportion.”
“I never heard of the alternate electors. Well, OK, I sent several texts about them, but trust me, I stopped trying to overturn the election when the VP said he wasn’t in favor of it” — I can see nothing here that would merit any skepticism or future investigation.