Sen. Ron Johnson’s uses probe to help President Donald Trump

Above is a video of Sen. Ron Johnson defending his Russia probe on Fox News.

Politico:
Besieged on all sides, Ron Johnson says his probe ‘would certainly’ help Trump win reelection

“The more that we expose of the corruption of the transition process between Obama and Trump, the more we expose of the corruption within those agencies, I would think it would certainly help Donald Trump win reelection and certainly be pretty good, I would say, evidence about not voting for Vice President Biden,” Johnson said in a little-noticed Tuesday interview with Minneapolis-based radio hosts Jon Justice and Drew Lee.

LEAST BIASED FACTUAL REPORTING: HIGH

MSNBC:
Ron Johnson makes a mistake by accidentally telling the truth

As the election draws closer, the pressure on Johnson is clearly increasing. Democrats are characterizing the GOP senator as some kind of useful idiot for Moscow; the U.S. intelligence community is issuing warnings about a Ukrainian official who claims to have fed information to Johnson’s committee; and conservative media figures seem annoyed that Johnson hasn’t used his position to help Donald Trump’s campaign even more.

LEFT BIASED FACTUAL REPORTING: MIXED

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Ron Johnson says his Biden probe could aid Trump’s reelection, dismisses ethics complaint filed by liberal groups

“Ron Johnson just explicitly admitted that he is diverting the resources of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee away from oversight of the failing coronavirus response so that he can instead weaponize taxpayer money to, in his own words, ‘help Donald Trump win re-election,’ ” Biden spokesperson Andrew Bates wrote in a statement to the Journal Sentinel.
Bates called Johnson’s actions “the definition of malfeasance” and said that the allegations against the Bidens are “a comprehensively disproven rightwing conspiracy theory.”


LEFT-CENTER BIAS FACTUAL REPORTING: HIGH