Ron Johnson's investigations thrust freewheeling GOP senator into election-year spotlight
Posted on AllSides June 15th, 2020
From The Left
Sen. Ron Johnson wouldn’t appear to be one of President Donald Trump’s closest allies at first glance.
The Wisconsin Republican doesn’t flood the airwaves to defend the president. He isn’t a fixture in the conservative media world, and he hasn’t seen his political stock boosted by a barrage of tweets and retweets from the president. In 2018, he even criticized Trump’s mix of tariffs and bailouts as a “Soviet-style economy.”
But Johnson, the chairman of the Senate’s chief oversight body, is playing a major role in advancing a key theme...