Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) (Photo by Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that the Democrats' impeachment process “is kind of bizarre."

They had to rush to this impeachment vote and then, all of a sudden, she's sitting on it," Johnson said of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "I don't think the Senate should be making the case that the House should have made in their presentation. My guess is they weren't able to make the case.

"As I said, the charges are pretty thin gruel. I don't see anything impeachable in that. So, it's not -- it's not the job of the Senate to make the case that the House should have made in their...articles of impeachment."

Johnson said he thinks both sides, the House managers and the president, should have a "fair chance" to make their case, then he thinks the Senate should vote on the next step.

Host Martha Raddatz pushed Johnson on the Democrats' demand to call witnesses, such as former National Security Adviser John Bolton and acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.

Johnson said he will support President Trump in providing the kind of trial he wants, including any witnesses he wants to bring.

"But again, I also think it would be totally appropriate to have the House put on their case, the president put on his case, and then decide what we're going to do after that point."

Johnson indicated that there are larger questions than the impeachment trial, such as how the Trump-related investigations started in the first place.

A lot of damage being done to our democracy right now, Martha, is what we're now talking about. So we can obsess on this impeachment. We can obsess on the trial, but what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get the American people the truth of what all happens. Something very strange is happening. You have got 40 percent, 45 percent of the American public that completely supports the president, that support is strengthening. And 40 percent, 45 percent that really don't -- obviously, he's not their cup of tea, let's put it that way. 10 to 25 percent of the American people in the middle are just asking, what is pulling off? I'm trying to answer those questions.

As for Ukraine and the Democrats' insistence, without firsthand testimony, that Trump was focused on his personal political fortunes, Johnson said he never got that impression:

"As I have said repeatedly, the president has been very consistent in the explanation he gave to me in terms of why he had reservations about Ukraine. The generalized and endemic corruption, which, you know, obviously President Zelensky won on an anti-corruption platform, and then the fact that Europe just doesn't do as much as the president thinks they should do to help out Ukraine, a country in its own backyard....The president was concerned about whether or not Americans' hard-earned taxpayer dollars should be spent into a country where there have been proven cases of corruption."









