Stephen Colbert gave one U.S. lawmaker a scathing new difference on Wednesday.
“Maximum historians agree: Ron Johnson is the dumbest individual ever to take a seat in the US Senate,” Colbert declared on “The Past due Display.”
Newly published textual content messages confirmed the Wisconsin Republican’s leader of group of workers attempted to organize a gathering through which Johnson would hand-deliver a slate of pretend electors to then-Vice President Mike Pence.
Pence’s place of job declined.
This week, Johnson claimed “some group of workers intern” sought after an envelope dropped at the vp and his place of job attempted to organize it however he didn’t know who despatched it or what it used to be, in line with The Washington Submit.
“So, he has no concept the place it got here from, no concept who gave it to them, no concept what it’s, however he can’t wait to hand-deliver it to the second-in-command. There may just’ve been anything else in that envelope, he doesn’t care: pretend electors, indignant bees, bare photos of Mary Todd Lincoln. It don’t topic to Ron! He’s only a supply boy.”
Colbert additionally stated this case spoke back a query he’d at all times had.
“You already know the ones bulletins within the airport once they say, ‘Don’t raise onto the flight a package deal for any person you don’t know’? I’ve at all times questioned who the ones bulletins are for,” he stated. “Seems it’s Ron Johnson.”
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