WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) – Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson is not excited to have to discuss the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
The House of Representatives formally file articles of impeachment against the president on Wednesday, but now the Senate is tasked with putting him on trial.
“That is if Nancy Pelosi ever delivers them to us. That’s the most bizarre thing is that she’s talking about holding them up in the House. This has been political from the start. I don’t know what kind of political stunt she’s trying to move forward here, but again, this is just bizarre,” Johnson says on WTAQ’s John Muir Show.
It also appears Johnson already knows how he will vote once the articles make it into the Senate. He says the charges of Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress that have been leveled against the president just don’t make sense.
“[Mitch McConnell] really talked about how incoherent these charges are, how weak they are. And really what the Senate’s duty is – is to make sure we don’t make this normative,” Johnson says, “President Trump was very consistent about why he had reservations about Ukraine. Corruption as well as spending money – why doesn’t Europe help out more? I saw no threat to our national security, and yet that’s the soaring rhetoric Democrats are using.”
Throughout the process and various charges aimed towards the president, Johnson still does not believe Trump has committed any offenses that warrant his removal from office. But no matter what the impeachment process brings, Johnson simply wants one thing to be clear.
“I want the complete truth. If there has been wrongdoing, the American people deserve to know exactly what the wrongdoing was. If there was no wrongdoing, they need to understand that too so we can move beyond this.”
It is currently unclear when the House will deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate to move the impeachment process forward.
