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Back in the NewsWisconsin's GOP Senator peddled 'malicious' disinformation by foreign operative sanctioned by Trump Administration.//end headline wrapper ?&gt;Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban MilwaukeeRon Johnson. File photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America / ()Could things get any worse for Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Senator ?He has been getting criticism from all quarters, as Urban Milwaukee last week. And that was before a violent mob overran the U.S. Capitol, incited by Republican officials like Johnson, who have repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims that the presidential election results were fraudulent. Johnson has insisted he bears no blame for the insurrection, but “has faced blistering criticism from fellow Republicans,” not to mention from Democrats, as an noted.Disgust with Johnson has spread to the Northwoods, where a Wisconsin brewery has to defeat Johnson in 2022, should he run for reelection.Now Johnson faces criticism on yet another front: his dalliance with a tainted Ukrainian official, .On Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department “ Ukrainians for trying to influence the 2020 election by attempting to smear President ’s Democratic rival, ,” as the Washington Post . Among the seven sanctioned was&nbsp;Telizhenko,&nbsp;“a political fixer and former low-level official in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington” who aided Trump’s lawyer in his effort “to dig up dirt on Biden and his son , who worked for a Ukrainian energy firm, Burisma,” the story noted.Telizhenko and the other six Ukrainians “have made repeated public statements advancing malicious narratives that U.S. Government officials have engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine,” Secretary of State said on Monday. And those malicious narratives were soon taken up by Johnson.“Telizhenko sparked U.S. officials’ concern in early 2019 when he began promoting pro-Russian, anti-Biden narratives by sharing information with GOP lawmakers,” the story noted. “He told The Post last year that he cooperated extensively with an investigation” by Sen. Johnson. The two met to discuss the issue back in July 2019, as an earlier Post story .The information from&nbsp;Telizhenko was a key part of the the investigation by Johnson’s Senate Homeland Security &amp; Governmental Affairs Committee, which recycled the dirt peddled by Giuliani in an attempt to smear Joe Biden. The report was by the media as a “hatchet job” whose 87 pages amounted to “little more than a rehashing of unproven allegations” and “contained&nbsp;no evidence that the former vice president improperly manipulated American policy toward Ukraine or committed any other misdeed.”Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee But it did contain lots of stuff from Telizhenko. “Chairmen Johnson… cited Mr. Telizhenko 42 times in the letters sent as part of this investigation, and ignored repeated warnings to not give credibility to disinformation,” noted Oregon’s Democratic U.S. Senator &nbsp;in a he released yesterday. “Johnson and his staff even met with Mr. Telizhenko for hours in person… By imposing sanctions on Telizhenko, the Trump administration confirms that Senate Republicans’ year-long investigation was based on Russian disinformation.”Johnson spokesman told Urban Milwaukee that “the senator’s report relied almost exclusively on US government records and interviews with US individuals. Documents provided by Telezhenko were documents of Blue Star Strategies, a US lobbying firm, that the senator was able to verify independently.”But Wyden sees it differently, charging that&nbsp;“The Senate was used to give credibility to foreign disinformation for the sole purpose of boosting Donald Trump’s campaign.”The statement by Wyden was first by the Journal Sentinel.: , ,You must be an Urban Milwaukee member to leave a comment. Membership, which includes a host of perks, including an ad-free website, tickets to marquee events like Summerfest, the Wisconsin State Fair and the Florentine Opera, a better photo browser and access to members-only, behind-the-scenes tours, . ..If you are an existing member, to leave a comment.Have questions? Need to report an error?755 N. Milwaukee St.Milwaukee, WI 53202414-395-0632© 2022, Urban Milwaukee, Inc. All rights reserved.This ad will close automatically in 15 seconds.Tired of seeing banner ads on Urban Milwaukee? .

Back in the NewsWisconsin's GOP Senator peddled 'malicious' disinformation by foreign operative sanctioned by Trump Administration.//end headline wrapper ?&gt;Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban MilwaukeeRon Johnson. File photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America / ()Could things get any worse for Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Senator ?He has been getting criticism from all quarters, as Urban Milwaukee last week. And that was before a violent mob overran the U.S. Capitol, incited by Republican officials like Johnson, who have repeatedly made unsubstantiated...

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