Ron Johnson: We Need Whistleblowers in Order to Stop Federal Bureaucrats from Meddling in Another Election
September 6, 2022 | Wisconsin
Feds’ role in promoting false Russia collusion, censoring Hunter Biden story influenced voters improperly, Wisconsin senator says.
Federal bureaucrats meddled in the last two presidential elections by promoting false Russia collusion claims and suppressing the Hunter Biden story, and more whistleblowers are needed to keep that from happening again in 2024, says Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.).
“I think that started in 2016 when they tried to meddle in the election, and they did meddle in that election,” Johnson told Just the News in a wide-ranging interview. “They tried to get Hillary Clinton elected, and they failed. But in 2020, they succeeded by downplaying the Hunter Biden laptop by censoring, by suppressing that.”
Johnson cited as an example of meddling a letter signed by 51 former national security officials claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation when in fact it was real evidence.
“That letter itself was an information operation and interfered in our 2020 election to a far greater extent than anything Russia ever could have hoped to accomplish,” he said…. (Excerpt from The Virginia Star and Just the News)
