“This wasn’t what this interview was going to be about,” a flustered Ron Johnson said to CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins.

When asked Monday about Republicans in Wisconsin having falsely claimed to be electors for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) claimed that Democrats have done the same “repeatedly in all kinds of different states”—yet failed to provide even one example, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins merely to “check the books.”

On The Source, Collins mentioned how 10 Republicans in Johnson’s state settled a lawsuit last week that was brought by Wisconsin’s legitimate electors, who had sought $200,000 from each elector. Though no fine was handed down, each elector admitted that Joe Biden won the election and agreed to not be an elector in 2024 or any election in which Donald Trump was a candidate. They also agreed that by posing as electors, they were “part of an attempt to improperly overturn” the election results.

  • @[email protected]
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    2110 months ago

    Am I the only one who thinks Ron Johnson looks a bit like the villain Senator Kinsey from Stargate? It’s just uncanny how similar they are, even down to the villainy.

    • FuglyDuck
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      1510 months ago

      Senator Kinsey

      for those wondering :

      Little bit, yeah. (needs to shave to pull it off, though.)

    • @shalafi
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      10 months ago

      Meh, most middle-aged, fairly fit, white guys can pull that, we can all look the same.

      Shave me down, fake the receding hairline, put 10-years and 10-pounds on me, put me in a solid suit, I could pull off the evil senator look.

      EDIT: And hide me away from sunlight for a month or two.

    • Flying Squid
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      How dare you, sir! How. Dare. You.

      That is Starfleet’s greatest captain.

      • @Oderus
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        210 months ago

        But he was also the dick in Total Recall.

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