“OMG = ‘Oust My Government'”
On Tuesday Republican Senator Ron Johnson breathlessly declared “an informant” had told him there is a “secret society” within the FBI that has “off-site” meetings presumably where they plot to take down the Trump presidency.
Not a word of it was true.
The Wisconsin Senator was referring to a text sent between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the two FBI agents who the GOP has falsely targeted as being in collusion to undermine President Trump.
Johnson wildly exclaimed to Fox News on Tuesday this “secret society” was evidence of “corruption at the highest levels of the FBI” and reason a special counsel should be appointed to investigate.
In reality, the text was a joke between two co-workers having an affair and talking about the political landscape as the entire nation was in shock Donald Trump was going to become president.
That was Tuesday.
On Wednesday, realizing he had made a huge miscalculation, Johnson admitted to CNN he actually had no idea what he was talking about.
And yet, it didn’t matter.
Fox News, so determined to fuel the lies on the right, Wednesday night via Fox Business, reposted Johnson’s “secret society” allegations, despite the fact he had already walked them back:
Meanwhile, ABC News obtained the content of the text sent by the FBI agents and used by Johnson to try to discredit the Federal Bureau of Investigation:
“Are you even going to give out your calendars? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society.”
It was a joke.
And now it’s become an embarrassment, as has Senator Johnson.
On social media, many are openly mocking the Wisconsin Senator, his claims of a “secret society,” and the Republican Party itself.
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