GOP senator admits he has 'minimal evidence' to support right-wing conspiracy
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) was forced to admit Friday on "The Benny Show" that he had little evidence to support a right-wing theory that the Chinese government conspired to interfere in the 2020 election — and then blamed Joe Biden for a cover-up.
To introduce the topic, MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson said Congress had "credible whistleblowers" showing the Chinese government was trying to "put fake IDs into the system here, in this country in order to rig the mail-in balloting process, which makes a ton of sense to us knowing how loose those systems and securities were."
He continued, "The border patrol were able to nab 20,000 fake ballots that were printed for Chinese nationals trying to smuggle across our border...and now we have Chinese students voting illegally in the 2024 election — they're being charged. So, this really does stand to reason — can you explain, like, the evidence that you have right now for this scheme?"
"Well, in terms of the evidence I have, it's pretty minimal," Ron Johnson admitted. He then pivoted to attack Biden.
"You've had four years of the Biden administration being able to cover this stuff up. If they found evidence themselves they probably destroyed it," Ron Johnson claimed. "You got people not talking, getting the story straight. So, it's always difficult to prove criminal activity beyond a reasonable doubt because criminals cover up their activity.
"So, this is not easy to do. What you can do is, you can find threads and you gotta pull on those threads to see if there's more documentation, more evidence. But, again, just don't expect some bombshell revelation that provides you all the information, all the receipts, all the evidence you need to convict people. That's not how these investigations work."
Earlier this month, the Justice Department announced it filed a criminal complaint charging one University of Michigan student, Haoxiang Gao, who was "a citizen and national of the People’s Republic of China, with false claims to register or vote and voting by aliens."
The news release also took a swipe at Biden.
Gao surrendered his passport, the release said, "but on January 19, 2025—the day before the new administration took office in Washington—Gao jumped bond and fled the country on a flight bound for Shanghai, China."