I'm pretty sure Johnson was in a "wait and see", and then Trump said (without knowing a thing about it) -paraphrasing- "we shouldn't take the deal" (later admitting it was for political reasons to deny Biden a perceived victory), and then Johnson sided with Trump.

Ironically, this has now given Biden an opening to turn it back on the Reps. Of course, the Dems are really clumsy at that. But Trump may just have turned a campaign weakness of Biden into a strength.

Not sure what you mean about acting like others. I try to refrain from ad-homs, but I will call out stupid behavior when I see it (while not calling any person on this board 'stupid'). I just frownie someone if I feel there signal-to-noise is near-zero, rather than polluting the board with personal invectives. So far one person has achieved that.