Sen. Ron Johnson Thursday defended the decision to seek a subpoena for Blue Star Strategies, a firm connected with the Burisma oil company that had hired former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter, explaining that Americans have a right to know the truth about the Bidens' activities and rejecting that action is being taken for political reasons.
"Our investigation into the things that happened in Ukraine date back to a political article written right after the 2016 election that shows potential interference by certain actors, possibly members of the DNC and blossomed into uncovering through news reports that Hunter Biden got hired (by Burisma)" the Wisconsin Republican said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "That's a fairly corrupt oil company."
He added that Blue Star Strategies was hired through Burisma and apparently used its connection with "former Clintonites" to "bully the State Department and possibly the Justice Department to potentially affect our policy and attitude toward Burisma.'
"If there's nothing there, fine," said Johnson said. "I think the American people deserve the truth."
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee agreed to allow the subpoena in a party-line vote. Democrats say the Republicans are using Senate resources and bad intel from Russia to help boost President Donald Trump’s reelection efforts, rather than focusing on the COVID-19 crisis.
Johnson rejected that, saying that the pandemic is a "disaster" and we are "not ignoring that by any stretch of the imagination."
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