A new report shows that Ron Johnson’s campaign is currently retaining an attorney connected to the January 6th fake elector plot. Part of the fees paid out were to secure legal consulting for a possible recount in the Wisconsin Senate race. Johnson has refused to commit to accepting the results of this election.
NBC News: Johnson’s campaign is paying the law firm of a Trump attorney allegedly connected to Jan. 6 fake elector plot
Sen. Ron Johnson recently made two payments to a law firm led by a Wisconsin attorney embroiled in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 probe, tapping the firm in part to assist in a possible recount, according to financial disclosures filed Friday.
Johnson, R-Wis., made the payments to the law firm led by James Troupis, who allegedly played a role in a plan to reverse the 2020 election results through the use of “fake electors” that’s now under scrutiny by the federal government. Troupis, a lawyer for Donald Trump’s campaign, led Trump’s unsuccessful recount efforts in Wisconsin.
Johnson, locked in one of the closest Senate races in the nation against Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, has paid a little over $20,000 in recent months to the Troupis Law Office in Cross Plains, Wisc., according to new financial disclosures filed with the Federal Elections Commission. Troupis is the firm’s principal.
On July 26, 2022, Johnson’s campaign paid $13,287 to Troupis Law for “legal consulting.” On Aug. 18, it paid $7,000 for what’s listed on his financial records as “Recount: Legal Consulting.” Financial records suggest that the only other financial interactions between Troupis and Johnson came in 2010, when Troupis donated $1,000 to Johnson’s campaign fund.
The first payment to the Troupis firm for legal consulting documented in the financial disclosures came a month after Johnson acknowledged he personally texted with Troupis on Jan. 6, 2021, about passing along information involving what Troupis said was “Wisconsin electors” to Pence.
Johnson has denied knowing anything about the fake elector scheme and as recently as earlier this month has appeared to distance himself from Troupis.
“What would you do if you got a text from the attorney for the president of the United States?” Johnson said at a recent event in Milwaukee. “You respond to it.”
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