Post by Admin on Dec 16, 2020 21:46:50 GMT
A Senate hearing on irregularities in the 2020 election on Wednesday got heated when GOP Sen. Ron Johnson berated a fellow member for accusing him of spreading “disinformation.”
Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, exploded at Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-Mich.) for criticizing his probe into Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings and accusing him of “laundering” a foreign influence campaign designed to wound President-elect Joe Biden, Hunter’s father.
“I have to talk about Russian disinformation. The people peddling it are not on my side of the aisle,” Johnson said, accusing Peters of leaking “a false intelligence report” to the media that charged he and veteran Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) were “disseminating Russian disinformation.”
“Fifty people associated with the intelligence community, after our Hunter Biden investigation and the revelations of the Hunter Biden computer, said, ‘Oh, this is Russian disinformation,'” Johnson went on, referring to The Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden’s shadowy overseas business dealings.
“Now we find out it’s a real investigation by the Justice Department,” Johnson said, acknowledging the federal tax probe into Joe Biden’s scandal-scarred son.
“I can’t sit by here and listen to this and say that this is not disinformation, this hearing today. This is getting information. We have to take a look at [it] to restore confidence in our election integrity,” he said.
Peters pushed back, telling Johnson: “You say I’m putting out information. I had nothing to do with this report.”
“You lied repeatedly! You lied repeatedly in the press. That I was spreading Russian disinformation,” Johnson shot back.
Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, exploded at Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-Mich.) for criticizing his probe into Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings and accusing him of “laundering” a foreign influence campaign designed to wound President-elect Joe Biden, Hunter’s father.
“I have to talk about Russian disinformation. The people peddling it are not on my side of the aisle,” Johnson said, accusing Peters of leaking “a false intelligence report” to the media that charged he and veteran Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) were “disseminating Russian disinformation.”
“Fifty people associated with the intelligence community, after our Hunter Biden investigation and the revelations of the Hunter Biden computer, said, ‘Oh, this is Russian disinformation,'” Johnson went on, referring to The Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden’s shadowy overseas business dealings.
“Now we find out it’s a real investigation by the Justice Department,” Johnson said, acknowledging the federal tax probe into Joe Biden’s scandal-scarred son.
“I can’t sit by here and listen to this and say that this is not disinformation, this hearing today. This is getting information. We have to take a look at [it] to restore confidence in our election integrity,” he said.
Peters pushed back, telling Johnson: “You say I’m putting out information. I had nothing to do with this report.”
“You lied repeatedly! You lied repeatedly in the press. That I was spreading Russian disinformation,” Johnson shot back.