Sen Ron Johnson is calling far left Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. a liar. Blumenthal is more comfortable at lying than he is at telling the truth but that is because he gets a lot more practice at lying. He is accusing Sen Ron Johnson of getting dirt on Biden from Ukrainian sources.
1/7 @SenBlumenthal’s twisting of classified briefings and repeating of false news reports is beyond the pale. https://t.co/TThKfDSnIX
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) August 8, 2020
1/7 @SenBlumenthal’s twisting of classified briefings and repeating of false news reports is beyond the pale. https://t.co/TThKfDSnIX
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) August 8, 2020
3/7 It is a flat-out lie that I asked for the CIA to brief our committee and that they refused. We’ve already been briefed repeatedly on these issues, Democrats simply didn’t like what they heard.
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) August 8, 2020
Blumenthal wrote a fake news op-ed for the Washington Post in which he accused Johnson of receiving dirt on Biden by the son of a former Ukrainian official and of asking the CIA to brief Senators on the matter. Johnson denied getting dirt on Biden and he also said that the CIA did brief them it’s just that Democrats didn’t like what they were told.
In his op-ed on Friday, Blumenthal suggested that Johnson, the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, may be using Russian disinformation to move ahead with his investigation into Biden’s family. Blumenthal cites a report from last week that says Johnson had been provided with tapes by Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker whose father was a KGB agent.
Derkach has been active in leveling unsubstantiated corruption allegations against Biden and his son Hunter, who used to sit on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas company. That effort has included publicizing leaked phone calls.
“Johnson’s actions are of such concern to the CIA, according to news reports, that the agency has refused to brief him,” Blumenthal wrote. “Think of it: Congress may become a forum for debunked conspiracy theories peddled by Kremlin proxies.”