Ron Johnson

In a text message chain Johnson's staff attempt to arrange for Johnson to give Mike Pence false electoral ballots from Wisconsin and Michigan.

Ron Johnson, a staunch ally of Donald Trump and the most vulnerable Senate Republican, attempted to intervene on the former president's behalf just moments ...

The January 6 Committee unveiled text messages between staffers of Ron Johnson and Mike Pence on the same day as the Capital riots.

[D]ocuments produced to the Select Committee show that the Trump campaign took steps to ensure that the physical copies of the fake electors' electoral votes from two states were delivered to Washington for January 6," Lucier said. End of story." "The Select Committee received testimony that those close to President Trump began planning to organize fake electors for Trump in states that (President Joe) Biden won in the weeks after the election. "There was no further action taken. Claims against Johnson and the use of fake electors add to a list of potentially compromised behavior that ties the former president and those who worked closest to him, in association with overturning the 2020 election. Alexa Henning, spokesperson for Johnson, tweeted in response to the text messages, saying that the senator "had no involvement in the creation of an alternate slate of electors and had no foreknowledge that it was going to be delivered to our office."

The House select committee on Tuesday unveiled new information showing the role that Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson played in pushing "fake" electors ...

Asked if he wanted to know who had sent it, he said, "No. No, because there's no conspiracy here. However, he said later that he had asked his staff about this when the news broke, and "nobody knows" who sent it. But ... somebody from the House delivered to a staff member in my office. My chief of staff called the vice president, 'Hey, we got this.' And the vice president said, 'Don't deliver it,' and we didn't." After the hearing, Johnson told CNN he had "no idea" who had tried to get him to share the fake electors from Michigan and Wisconsin with Pence but he acknowledged he had been aware of the ask on the morning of January 6, 2021. A Johnson aide texted a staffer for then-Vice President Mike Pence that the Wisconsin Republican wanted to hand-deliver "fake" electors

When told the "something" was "alternate slates of electors" for Michigan and Wisconsin -- which Joe Biden won in the 2020 presidential election -- the Pence ...

And the rest of the story is nothing," Johnson said. "Freaking Trump idiots want someone to fly original elector papers to the senate President," Wisconsin Republican Party executive director Mark Jefferson texted on Jan. 4, according to a message disclosed Tuesday by the committee. "There's no conspiracy here," he said. The Vice President's office said not to give it to him and we did not. End of story," Henning said in a statement to ABC News. Tuesday's evidence further underscored the extent to which Johnson or his team pursued means of contesting the last presidential race.

A spokeswoman for Sen. Ron Johnson claimed that the Wisconsin Republican was not involved in a fake elector scheme and “had no foreknowledge” the electors ...

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One Wisconsin Democrat calls Johnson "a criminal and a traitor," while senator's staff claim he wasn't involved.

"His new chief of staff contacted the vice president's office," which "said not to give it to him and we did not. End of story." "Once again, Ron Johnson has proven he's a danger to our country and our fundamental rights. Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry, also running in the primary to oust Johnson, tweeted that "Trump and his MAGA allies planned, promoted, and paid for a seditious conspiracy to overturn an election they lost. And Ron Johnson attempted to deliver it to D.C. on a silver platter." State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski argued that "it is clear Ron Johnson is a threat to our democracy and is unfit to continue serving in the United States Senate."

So too was Rudy Giuliani. So too was John Eastman, who wrote the “coup memo” instructing former Vice President Mike Pence to stop the certification of the ...

Rep. Adam Schiff noted at the top of the hearing on Thursday that federal district Judge David Carter has argued that Trump and others “violated multiple federal laws by engaging in this scheme, including conspiracy to defraud the United States.” The Jan. 6 committee revealed on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump was “directly” involved in the illegal campaign to fabricate phony slates of electors in key swing states. Says he was aware of ask on Jan. 6 AM. The fake electors scheme involved Trump and his team working to get allies in swing states won by President Biden to fabricate slates of electors declaring Trump the winner, and for Pence to cite these slates of electors as justification for blocking the certification on Jan. 6. She did not refute anything revealed in the hearing. The committee also revealed on Tuesday that the Trump campaign was involved in the effort to transport the fake slates of electors from the states to Washington, D.C.; that Eastman asked the Republican National Committee to assist in the scheme; and that the White House counsel’s office informed key players like Giuliani and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that the scheme was not legally sound.

To recap: On Tuesday, the committee released text messages showing that Johnson's top aide, Sean Riley, inquired with Vice President Mike Pence's staff on Jan.

But the point remains that there was this last-minute effort to get Pence legally invalid slates of electors, in the hope that he would change course. For the Archives to not even treat the slates as worthy of transmission would certainly reinforce just how problematic and potentially illegal all of the fake electors effort was. In addition, his top aide said in the texts shared by the Jan. 6 committee that Johnson himself would deliver the documents — but we are still meant to believe that Johnson wasn’t clued in on this at all. Q: So did you not know what was being talked about in terms of what this document was?JOHNSON: I was aware that we got this package and that somebody wanted us to [give it to] the vice president. We didn’t deliver it.Q: So you were aware of it on Jan. 6 – that morning – when your chief of staff texted the vice president’s office?JOHNSON: I was aware that we got something they wanted to be delivered to the vice president. There’s another aspect of this that doesn’t make sense: Riley’s claim that the National Archives hadn’t received the slates. Documents released by the Jan. 6 committee show that the archivist had indeed received the slates from Michigan and Wisconsin. Cheney raised the possibility that perhaps they had been received by the Archives but hadn’t been shared with Pence, because they weren’t legally valid. Q: Did you support his efforts to try to get the slates to the Vice President?JOHNSON: No. I had no knowledge of this. The dodginess of all of it was reinforced by a swift response from Johnson’s office, which assured that the senator himself had nothing to do with this. And Pence had already declared he wouldn’t go along with the plot. But Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-Wis.) response to a new revelation from the House committee investigating the insurrection is up there on the list. Perhaps the chief example is Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) awkwardly and haltingly responding to questions about his contact with President Donald Trump that day.

During Tuesday's January 6 committee hearing, a series of text messages between Sean Riley, Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson's chief of staff, and Chris ...

But, but, but somebody from the House delivered to a staff member in my office, my chief of staff called the vice president, 'hey, we got this.' And the vice president said 'don't deliver it,' and we didn't." Johnson: "We didn't know -- literally don't -- it was a staff to staff -- somebody from the House, some staff intern, you know, said we got to, the vice president needs this or whatever. And this -- guys it's a total non-story." So we called, we called up the vice president, he didn't want it. My staff -- my chief of staff did the right thing, he called up the vice president. Johnson: "We got handed an envelope that was supposed to go to the vice president, I didn't know.