Senator Ron Johnson Takes On the Covid Cartel
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) stands out among federal legislators for his commitment to investigating the Covid pandemic response, which inflicted heavy tolls on America in terms of economic devastation, freedoms curtailed, and lives lost. Below is an abridged version of an interview with Johnson at his U.S. Senate office on April 10 by Veronika Kyrylenko, senior editor for The New American. The full interview is available at thenewamerican.com and on the magazine’s social-media accounts.
The New American: Senator Johnson, you’ve been extremely active in trying to alleviate people’s suffering caused by the pandemic response. You have advocated for early treatment ... and opposed vaccine mandates. Can you talk about some of the factors that influenced your viewpoints on these issues, especially considering that your viewpoints radically deviated from the dominant narrative here in D.C.?
Senator Ron Johnson: Well, first of all, nothing in the response to Covid made sense to me. I held my first hearing as chairman of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs with [former director of the FDA] Scott Gottlieb and [former director of the CDC] Julie Gerberding. In that hearing, I found out that we really don’t produce the active pharmaceutical ingredients or the precursor chemicals for drugs, which is a huge vulnerability, and we’ve done nothing to address it. That was in February of 2020.
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