Thread by @benwikler

Ron Johnson knew Trump was withholding military aid from Ukraine and kept his mouth shut—then voted to acquit Trump, and now blames Dems for Putin’s invasion. He’s willing to say anything to serve his ambition and political agenda. An absolute disgrace.
huffpost.com/entry/ron-john…

On Sunday, Ron Johnson made the ludicrous and ghastly argument that it was Trump’s impeachment that weakened Ukraine. In fact, as he well knows, the point of the impeachment was that Trump deliberately weakened our Ukrainian ally for political extortion.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1497960912665206794

When Johnson found out that Trump was withholding military aid to Ukraine, he was concerned. He even confronted Trump about it. But when it became clear that throwing Ukraine under the bus would help Trump’s reelection, he was all for it.
washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-j…

Johnson not only voted to acquit Trump for trying to extort Ukraine using military aid in order to fabricate an investigation of President Biden—he went on to elevate anti-Ukraine conspiracy theories in order to lift up Trump’s candidacy.
justsecurity.org/72148/manafort…

Johnson was even warned by the FBI that he was elevating Russian disinformation. He kept doing it anyway—serving, as always, his own political ambition instead of siding with his country’s interests.
justsecurity.org/71947/how-sen-…

Since Johnson’s reelection in 2016, over and over, he’s chosen to serve himself, his donors, and his political backers instead of the people of Wisconsin and the interests of the United States. A huge tax cut for himself. Disinformation to help Trump. It’s all the same story.

Now that Russia has invaded Ukraine, Johnson is trying to erase the history in which he threw Ukraine under the bus to serve his own political interests—and is ludicrously trying to blame Democrats. He’s acting as though this crisis is a game in his reelection campaign. Enough.