After Claiming There’s a ‘Secret Society’ in the FBI GOP Senator Admits He Has No Clue About It

Johnson Called for ‘Special Counsel’ to Investigate ‘Corruption at the Highest Levels of the FBI’ Based on ‘Secret Society’

After embarrassing himself on Fox News Tuesday night, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) returned Wednesday for a second round. 

Johnson had delivered the wild and wholly unsubstantiated accusation that there is a “secret society” within the FBI, implying a covert group is up to nefarious and, presumably, anti-Trump purposes.

“We have an informant that’s talking about a group – they were holding secret meetings off site. There is so much smoke there, there’s so much suspicion,” Johnson exclaimed to Fox News host Bret Baier. 

“This is not a distraction,” Johnson insisted. “Again, this is bias, potential corruption at the highest levels of the FBI that is now investigating – and by the way, Robert Mueller used to run the FBI. He is in no position to do an investigation over this kind of misconduct.”

The Wisconsin Senator went as far as to call for a special counsel to investigate the “secret society.”

That was Tuesday.

Wednesday, Johnson admitted to CNN’s Senior Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju he literally had no idea what he had been talking about.

Strzok-Page are the FBI agents who were having an affair and exchanged text messages about the presidential election. Republicans have taken them wildly out of context.

Johnson now appears to be walking back his claims, after insisting they were “not a distraction” and evidence of “corruption at the highest levels of the FBI.”

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