“President Trump wants to dig up dirt on his 2020 opponent, what he wants is he wants an accounting of what happened in 2016. Who set him up? Did things spring from Ukraine?”
Ron Johnson
Senator (R-Wis.). in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press". Claim dated 6 Oct 2019.
Washington Post rated thisNo evidence
In short
Ron Johnson (Senator (R-Wis.)) made this claim around 6 October 2019. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 October 2019, 2 days later. Its rating was “No evidence”.
Ron Johnson has 43 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 21 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- washingtonpost.comhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/the-gop-theory-that-ukraine-set-up-trump/20…
Links recorded by Washington Post. Some posts may have been deleted since.
This check was done by Washington Post, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.