In this conversation, Senator Johnson noted, accurately, that the letter didn't explicitly name Shokin.
It stated: "We similarly urge you to press ahead with urgent reforms to the Prosecutor General's office and judiciary," at a time that Shokin held that office for +1 year.
It stated: "We similarly urge you to press ahead with urgent reforms to the Prosecutor General's office and judiciary," at a time that Shokin held that office for +1 year.
The full text of the letter is here: portman.senate.gov/newsroom/press…
"I don't even know Shokin was at the time," Johnson told me during our conversation.
The letter Johnson signed called for "urgent reforms" to the office that Shokin had then held for more than a year.
The letter Johnson signed called for "urgent reforms" to the office that Shokin had then held for more than a year.
Before telling me he didn't know who Shokin was, Johnson had a different defense of his decision to sign the lettter: "[T]he whole world felt that this that Shokin wasn't doing a [good] enough job." h/t @EricColumbus
