Ron Johnson

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., held a high-stakes hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday, focusing on COVID-19 and allegations that federal health agencies suppressed vaccine safety data and interfered with scientific studies.

The National News Desk sat down with the senator after that hearing, who repeatedly referred to the government’s handling of the COVID-19 vaccine safety signals as the “biggest government scandal of my lifetime.”

The millions of people that had adverse events, I’d be pretty ticked off at those government officials that didn’t do their job that lied to me bald face. That's what this is about,” Johnson said.

The hearing Wednesday, titled ‘Plausible Mechanisms of COVID-19 Injections Causing Cancer and Attacks on Scientific Publications and Research,’ featured multiple witnesses, including Professor Emeritus of oncology at the University of London, Dr. Angus Dalgleish. He told lawmakers that six of his melanoma patients, who had been stable for years, all had relapses.

And the thing that was common was that they all received a booster vaccine from their general practitioners,” Dr. Dalgleish testified.

On Capitol Hill, Sen. Johnson has been spearheading transparency efforts surrounding COVID-19. Alleging that federal health agencies and Biden administration officials pressured or directed scientists to actively suppress or withdraw peer-reviewed studies regarding covid vaccine safety signals.

We were trying to highlight the mechanism of the COVID injection and how it could cause these adverse events. In this case, folks with cancer but all these other things as well and then those people raising the alarm, how their careers were being destroyed,” Johnson said.

He also alleges officials actively sidelined warnings to push universal vaccination. Recently presenting findings, claiming that the FDA was explicitly warned that its standard data-mining algorithm would hide safety signals, including cases of extreme data masking.

Delving into this, they wouldn't report them and the safety signals were screaming at them because they didn't want to create vaccine hesitancy,” said Johnson.

But the claims have faced criticism. Including some Democratic lawmakers. Like Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal.

The National Cancer Institute, has conclude quote, there is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccines cause cancer,” Sen. Blumenthal said at the hearing Wednesday. "Those individuals making that broad statement, they don't want to look for any evidence so they're not finding any. Find out who they're funded by. I'm showing all kinds of evidence,” Sen. Johnson told The National News Desk, after being asked to respond to Sen. Blumenthal.

Johnson adding the main purpose of Wednesday’s hearing was to highlight that there's been corruption and the American public deserves to know the truth.

I can't prosecute. I can't convict. But I can expose and I think that's the first line of accountability and I’m trying to expose. I’m trying to do this because America deserves a COVID reckoning,” said Johnson.

Sen. Johnson also said he isn't a vaccine benefit denier. But what he believes the U.S. is dealing with is vaccine and injection deniers.