Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson published a bold op-ed in the Heartland Post on his findings as chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that the federal government under then-President Biden systematically covered up evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine was causing injuries at a much greater rate than publicly reported.
No other publication would run Sen. Johnson’s op-ed and his findings have not been covered on a single news network.
On Thursday, he discussed his findings and the scourge of government and media censorship in an interview on “The Dan O’Donnell Show.”
Dan O’Donnell: The importance of independent and conservative media cannot be understated. When the government tries to hide information, the mainstream media, traditional left-wing media, and social media all too often assist them in this effort. Instead of publishing the truth that the government tries to keep from the public, the media instead tries to cover it up. There is no greater example, perhaps in recent memory than Covid 19, whether it was just how effective the lockdowns were, the origins of the virus itself, and then in the development, efficacy, and safety of COVID vaccines.
If you dared to suggest something outside of government-sanctioned speech, you were censored off of social media, and traditional media would simply not allow that truth to ever get out. Well, enter entities like the Heartland Post, because today I am, as editor in chief, proud to say that we are the only news service to publish an op-ed from Senator Ron Johnson, it was refused by the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and even Fox News Digital refused to publish an op-ed by Senator Johnson on COVID vaccine safety.
NBC, ABC, PBS, CNN, MS, now all refusing to cover a new report, that report details how in March of 2021 Peter Marks, the director of the FDA center that approves vaccines and is responsible for safety surveillance, he was briefed that the algorithm they were using to analyze the VAERS system vaccine adverse event reporting would mask or hide COVID vaccine adverse event safety signals, i.e. people were having bad reactions to the vaccine. 20-six days later, using an updated algorithm, senior FDA officials were shown 20-five safety signals, including sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, cerebral artery occlusion, basal ganglia stroke, agonal rhythm, and Bell’s palsy.
For the next three months, they received updates showing more serious safety signals, but instead of warning or informing the public, they ordered the data analyst to cease and desist and then lied to the American people that they weren’t seeing safety signals, and that any adverse events were rare and mild.
That is Senator Ron Johnson writing at the Heartland Post today in an op-ed that we have titled “The Story the Media and the Government Don’t Want You to Hear. Senator Ron Johnson joins me now on the Dan O’Donnell show.
Sir, as the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, you have been digging into COVID-related government malfeasance for six years now. This to me seems like one of the most severe scandals that I think has yet come out about the COVID 19 situation.
Senator Ron Johnson: First of all, Dan, thank you for having me on, and for covering this, because, as you say, the legacy media is radio silence, they’re just ignoring this. I issued my report, I held my hearing seven weeks ago now, seven weeks, and I think I think it is the biggest government scandal in my lifetime, because so many people’s lives were impacted, so many people died, so many, so many people suffered grievous injury, injury, including permanent disability, because they were not informed of what Peter Marks, high government officials in the FDA knew about the adverse events and reactions to the COVID injection. Again, it’s I say in the column, put yourself in the, in the position of a parent who believed the lies, who listened to President Biden saying this pandemic could be unvaccinated? You got to get your child vaccinated, so they don’t infect your, your parent or their grandparents, so you know they don’t die. Of course, we found out later on that it didn’t prevent either infection or transmission. So, again, all the lies we were told, and what’s so sad about it, Dan, is the lies are still being told, and the legacy media won’t tell the truth. I mean, we’ve got documented evidence now. We know they knew, we know they lied to us, and we can’t get it published. I mean, it’s a scandal in and of itself. So, appreciate you doing it. I finally decided to publish it on X, and God bless Elon Musk. Or at least maintaining freedom of speech on the internet by buying x,
Dan: And that is so important, because now we have a way to bypass information that on x would have been, would have been, you know, completely covered up. In fact, I can remember, sir, an interview that I did with you back in it would have been the summer of 2022 in which we were talking about the Covid vaccine and just how effective it actually was and has been and we were just going over the data I was actually suspended from YouTube, my entire YouTube channel was suspended for something like a month, even though I was talking with someone not who’s just in the Senate, but who was actively using his position in government to investigate the exact thing he was talking about, but because it went against the government-approved narrative of the Biden administration, you had social media that was actively going along, and they didn’t just take down the episode that you and I were discussing this.
They actually took down my channel, and they gave me a strike and said, in effect, one or two more strikes, and we will just remove the Dan O’Donnell show channel. It is that effective, the censorship era that we were in, and I think you’re right, that Elon Musk buying Twitter and turning it into a free speech platform did wonders for the rest of the gatekeepers of digital media. I mean, that, that to me is just as big a scandal, I think, as hiding the adverse effects of this vaccine.
Sen. Johnson: Oh, there are so many scandals involved in our miserably failed response to COVID, but what’s maybe even more chilling than the actual censorship is it was all preplanned.
Remember Event 201 sponsored by Bill Gates and Company, where they were again, they had a plan to address a pandemic very similar to the one we had a few months later, and they were talking about the trusted news initiative, right, where part of the thing is going to be we’re gonna have to really stamp down on misinformation if we have this kind of pandemic, you know, information, misinformation like this didn’t spring from a lab leak, this wasn’t man-made, that that would be a conspiracy theory, yep. When again, it’s been obvious for years that, that’s, you know, this was Anthony Fauci funded gain of function through Peter Dassick into the Wuhan lab, Ralph Baric out of North Carolina. We’ve known this for years, and still, like, it’s up in the air.
Dan: Yeah. How can they say that? With, I mean, that’s that’s the thing that got me initially. Well, first of all, it was in the earliest days of Covid 19, when the data was showing, hey, the only people who are getting really, really sick, the only people who are dying are the elderly and those with serious preexisting conditions. Why don’t we just focus our lockdown efforts on them, and maybe it’s the best thing, and you know, our best interest, health wise, to open up the rest of the country, and if you need to be tested just to know you’ve got COVID as a young, healthy person, then maybe it’s not the worst thing in the world that we get some form of herd immunity that was backed by data, that was backed by all science mask mandates, too.
I mean, you had a study put out by the Department of Health, HHS, like two months before the pandemic, saying, yeah, masks don’t really work in these viral outbreaks, yet we still had mask mandates. It was obvious from the very beginning. Oh, you’re saying the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where they’re studying bat coronaviruses, is the place where we have an international outbreak of a bat coronavirus.
I mean, all of this stuff that was just common sense, like even if you go with vaccines, right, we know there is some percentage of the population that will have an adverse effect, adverse impact, any medicine, any vaccine, anything except this one, I mean, it was just the subversion of reality, the suppression of truth of obvious truth, and I think you’re right, this this effort to turn anything that went away from approved government speech into some sort of conspiracy theory, it was remarkably effective in shutting down the truth, wasn’t it?
Sen. Johnson: Of course, Dan, if you even mentioned herd immunity or natural immunity, I mean, you were accused of wanting to kill people, which, of course, I was accused of repeatedly. So, no, it was, it was nasty back then, the whole one of my first hearings was with Johnny Anita, trying to calm everybody down on the basis of that Princess Cruise research project, you call it, where pretty early on we realized if you’re elderly, have certain co-ordinated, you need to be pretty concerned about COVID, but otherwise it might be bad flu, and you’ll get over it, but.
They had to spread the fear that that’s that’s how they that’s how they control our lives, and they’ve done it with climate change, they’ve done with so many different things, they’re trying to do it today, they’re trying to do with antivirus or with the Ebola, yeah, just name it, I mean, I mean they’re predicting another pandemic, which of course we need them to do these countermeasures, that’s what all this is based on, by the way. This is bioweapons research. They do it supposedly legitimately. They say, “Oh no, we’re just doing research to defend against some other bad actor conducting bioweapons research. Now we know we’ve been funding over 100 labs in other countries where they’re not under control, we know all about these lab leaks.”
It is insane that we actually create incredibly dangerous viruses all on the basis of, well, we need to, we need to protect ourselves in case somebody does that. Well, you just did it and it got released from a lab, so again, this is so obviously stupid and evil, and yet it’s all being covered up, because there’s so many people complicit in it. I mean, if you are the people that prove the injections, if you’re one of the members of Congress who cut a video, get that jab, or Stephen Colbert with the dancing syringes behind you, the news media doctors who prescribe it, who push down their patients. Nobody wants to admit something that they coerced or mandated or pushed on their patients actually killed or disabled them.
But currently, on VAERS worldwide, over 39,000 deaths are being reported associated with this vaccine. 24% occur on the day of vaccination or within one or two days. I know Vayners does improve causation, but that’s a correlation that the CDC FDA should have been concerned about. But when I confronted Francis Collins about it in April of 2021 when they had 2900 some deaths reporting on Vader said, you know, Dr. Collins, you watching this? Said, well, you know, we’ve attributed six of these deaths to J and J, but what about the other 2900 Sandra? People die. Yeah, 39,000 people die.
And, of course, we also know that about 1% of adverse events are actually reported to VAERS. So, multiply that 39,000 of the 1.7 million adverse events currently on VAERS, multiply that by what, as much as a factor of 110 20, you know, whatever. It’s been a lot of harm that could have been avoided had our federal health agencies just been honest with American people and said, listen, you listen, if you’re, if you have comorbidities, maybe you ought to take this, but understand, taking it, there are risks.
This is a new genetic therapy. It’s not a vaccine, it is not a vaccine, it’s genetic therapy, and we saw in the trials people got hurt, were getting deluge, I mean, they were deluged, they had hired the contractor that was uploading the VAERS reports into VAERS, had to hire 290 people just to deal with the backlog, and they’re getting 1000s of adverse events a day, and yet they were saying, well, we don’t see anything here, because we have this algorithm that we can say that we know is hiding safety signals that we can say we’re not seeing them. Of course, you’ll never see what you’re not looking for, right?
Dan: Yeah, and that’s it. That’s that is the perfect summation of what it is that government was doing. Senator Ron Johnson joining me here on the Dan O’Donnell show, the exclusive op-ed at the Heartland Post. The story the media and the government don’t want you to hear, Heartland post.com and it wasn’t just that they weren’t looking for it. I mean, what your op-ed and your reports make clear is that they were targeting and they were trying to stop anybody who was looking for it. I mean, that to me is the real scandal. That okay, we know that there is the potential for risk.
We got an emergency use authorization, and frankly, I think the reason for this is pretty obvious, because if a there are any alternate therapies that could be effective for COVID, you don’t need emergency use for a vaccine, and if there are any adverse effects that get reported that rise to a certain level, you’ve got to pull the emergency use authorization.
They wanted the vaccine, they wanted the what I think was largely a placebo to get people to think at a large scale that hey, we can go back to work, we can open up the country because we’re protected by the vaccine, but when you actually have within the regulatory agencies that are supposed to be keeping the public safe actively saying to the people who are investigating adverse effects, stop doing this, we don’t want to find adverse effects. That to me is unconscionable, and that to me is frankly, I think that is is practically criminal.
Sen. Johnson: And then those people who did it, some of them. Still in those same positions, we interviewed one of them, and they’re impervious to our arguments, they’re impervious to the data, they just, they just keep saying that, just didn’t rise to a threshold of being considered a safety signal. I mean, it is just, it is mind-boggling. The analogy I use is, they got a two-year-old say you can’t have a cookie, and you know, half minute later, you hear the cookie jar break, and you run into the kitchen, and there’s the kid that’s cooking in his hand, you go, “I said you couldn’t have a cookie, I don’t have a cookie. Yes, you have no, I don’t have a cookie, and it’s literally what I’m dealing with here right now, these, these, these, these ingrained bureaucrats who are responsible for approving them, surveilling safety, and they didn’t do their job, and again, there are multiple explanations. Again, having approved it, did you want to admit that you were causing so much harm, or were you being pressured by the Biden administration because they wanted to get approval so they could mandate it? I can’t, again, I can’t fully explain it, but again, getting back to my analogy of parents who have believed them had their child injected and their child never woke up or is now permanently disabled, that that happened, which is why I say this is the biggest scandal in my lifetime. Somebody asked me, was this bigger than Watergate? Of course it is.
Sen. Johnson: Nobody died in Watergate. We got 39,000 deaths, at least 1.7 million adverse events, at least people that I know, because I talked to them and working with them, they’re permanently disabled, they’re suffering, they’re committing suicide, it’s unbearable for them, and they can’t get treatment because our federal health agencies won’t come clean, won’t admit it, won’t acknowledge their injections. By the way, I know we’re probably running time. I got to throw one more thing in.
Dan: We’ll take as long as you need to talk about this, please.
Sen. Johnson: In March of 2021 the same month where they were warned they’re going to hide the safety signals, NIH was diagnosing and treating people with severe injection injuries from the COVID injection, 23 of them in the, in the end, and they told them, “Don’t talk about this, we want to complete our study. Then we’ll, once we have all of our data, then we’ll present to the doctors, so they know the best guidelines for treatment.
The problem is, they never released the study, only under pressure from the injection injured when they started going public, about a year after I held my forum with some of them, they did a one pager, they published a one pager on a preprint server and told no one, quite the Grinch, right, solve world hunger, tell no one, so doctors were never warned, and what’s really despicable about it, the first thing they learned in treating these patients is was early intervention and treatment was essential to having the best results, so they weren’t telling doctors, “Hey, take this seriously, these are vaccines and injuries.”
The CDC actually published a study in 2021 saying the kind of neurological harms done to people like redressing, whose life was completely offended or anxiety, it’s all in your head,
Dan: That’s insane.
Sen. Johnson: I mean, it’s, it’s sick, it’s sick is what it is, it’s evil,
Dan: That’s like gaslighting at industrial or governmental scale, is what that is. How do you feel like on a personal level, not just with you being labeled a conspiracy theorist, but talking to these people and getting to know these people who have lost loved ones, who have been impacted themselves to be dismissed by those in government and media as essentially kooks.
Sen. Johnson: Well, Dan, again, I don’t care about what they say about me. The main reason I ran for a third term is nobody else was advocating for these people, but I met them, I knew them – a father who lost his best friend, his 16 year old son, and nobody was listening to him. Again, all they wanted was to be seen, heard, and believed, so they could be treated, and they’re still not being heard, seen, or believed, or they’re not being acknowledged, and so they’re still lacking treatment.
So, suicide, you know, their Facebook groups were canceled after that June 20-first or 2020-one event I held in Milwaukee. So, their Facebook groups were taken down because of misinformation. So, suicides went up because people didn’t have support groups right now. They’re probably at a psychological low, and the suicide rates within their groups of, you know, 10s of 1000s of people. I think React 19 has 40,000 people.
Their suicide rates are getting up because they’re losing hope. They’ve been battling this for five years, trying to get acknowledgement, trying to get treatment. It’s just an ICD code out of CDC, so that they can, the doctors can be reimbursed for treating them. So, no, these, these people are in despair, and that’s why I’m doing this. I’m not, I’m not doing this to gain notoriety, or I’m not, I’m certainly not going to not do it, because I’m getting rid of you. Old, I’m fighting for these people who are fighting for their lives.
Dan: Well, sir, we cannot thank you enough for fighting for them, but really fighting for all of us, because fighting for the truth is fighting for the most fundamental of American virtues, fighting for the information that is attempted to be kept from the public. We are so fortunate to have you fighting for that truth, and we here at the Dan O’Donnell show and the Heartland Post are honored to have this be be part of the truth that we present to our audience. The op-ed, you will only read it at the Heartland Post, because it was rejected everywhere else by Senator Ron Johnson. The story the media and the government don’t want you to hear it is available across social media at Dan O’Donnell show at Heartland Post W I at Sen Ron Johnson on X Facebook, as well, everywhere, sir. Thank you again. It is always a pleasure talking with you, and keep up the good work.
Sen. Ron Johnson: Thanks for having me on. Thanks for covering the story.
