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Not every rat abandons a sinking ship. Some of the vermin cower in the bilge awaiting another chance to further befoul their environment. Michael McDermott 9 minutes ago Thanks for reading Michael’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. So it is with Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. Of all the despicable crimes committed by members of the US congress, the attempt to subvert an honest and fair election and install a tin-pot dictator in the presidency is among the most vile. Yet that is precisely what the evidence seems to show. Telephone records of conversations involving Johnson, Jim Jefferies, Mike Leee, Senator Blackburn among other potential traitors seem to exist, records still under wrap because of Supreme court involvement that outline the greatest act of treason since the Civil War. Now, with the entire Trump administration in disarray, Rat # 1 is scurrying to pretend to be a patriot by denouncing those he so seemingly eagerly led in the attempted insurrection. He apparently think exposing yet other attacks on our Democracy will absolve him of crimes past – no way, Jose, Johnson ostensibly thinks a hyena can change its stripes, a snake can escape notice by shedding its skin, or a malignant virus can hide undetected in the bowels of congress. Not so, Benedict Johnson, the House is under new leadership, subpoenas are already drawn up and your cell in a Supermax is assured. Read this – boldface mine: U.S. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin was connected to events surrounding January 6, 2021, primarily through an attempt by his office to deliver a slate of false/alternate presidential electors to Vice President Mike Pence, as well as prior discussions with state party officials about overriding the 2020 election results. On the morning of January 6, 2021, Donald Trump’s Wisconsin attorney James Troupis texted Senator Johnson stating they needed to get a document concerning Wisconsin electors to Vice President Pence immediately. Johnson then connected Troupis in a group text with his chief of staff, Sean Riley (also referred to as Shawn Riley). Minutes before the joint session of Congress began, Sean Riley texted Chris Hodgson, an aide to Vice President Pence, asking how Johnson could hand-deliver a package containing fake/alternate electors from Wisconsin and Michigan. Johnson’s office initially stated that he had no involvement in creating the alternate slate of electors and no foreknowledge of the plan, describing it as a “staff-to-staff” interaction and a “non-story”. However, subsequent lawsuit disclosures and communications indicated his office and staff had direct contact with Trump campaign operatives regarding the documents on January 6. In December 2020, Johnson spoke with then-Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt, suggesting that the GOP-controlled state legislature could potentially override the popular vote and select its own presidential electors. Hitt declined the idea, noting that nonpartisan legislative attorneys advised the state legislature lacked the power to do so. Johnson later stated he had no recollection of the conversation when it was revealed by the House January 6 Committee. Probe: In 2023, as part of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the FBI obtained a preliminary toll/metadata analysis of phone records for Johnson and several other Republican lawmakers covering January 4–7, 2021. : The phone data tracked call times, durations, and general locations, though not the contents of the conversations. The existence of the records became public via unclassified documents released in October 2025 by U.S. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley. Characterization of January 6: Johnson has consistently downplayed the severity of the Capitol riot, famously stating that the event “didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me” and disputing accounts of the scale of violence. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson has accused the Trump administration of sweeping corruption. In an interview with Fox News, Johnson addressed allegations by former White House adviser Calley Means, who said Trump officials bowed to corporate interests on health policy, including Make American Healthy Again priorities. Means laid out government corruption “in gory detail,” Johnson said Saturday, the Washington Post reports, including “within the Trump administration.” Voters expected Republicans to “drain the swamp,” Johnson said, but “it seems like the swamp won.” He’s trying to delay Senate GOP leadership elections for what he calls “robust, soul-searching discussions” after the party’s midterms debacle. On Sunday, Means posted on X that he’s asking that records involving former Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles and others be preserved, per the Hill. Means told podcaster Joe Rogan that Wiles once told him, “I need the money from the sugar people to win the midterms.”