In a morning interview with 1130 WISN radio on Monday (Feb. 15), Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R) said it was an exaggeration to compare the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol to an “armed uprising,” saying. “That riot did not rise to the level of an ‘armed uprising’.”
In an interview, Johnson condemned the violence at the Capitol last month, but he also said, “I mean, armed, when you hear armed, you think of guns.” “What I’m asking is, how many guns were seized (during the riots)? How many shots were fired? As far as I know there was only one case. I’m going to defend that law enforcement officer for shooting, and that was a tragedy. But it would be comical to say that that was a planned armed uprising when there was only one case of shooting in total that I know of.”
Johnson’s comments were met with accusations from anti-Trump (Trump) advocates. They condemned Republicans for downplaying the severity of the attack. Both Republicans and Democrats have called for stiff penalties for those who managed to break into the Capitol.
Johnson also said Trump’s legal team thwarted the House’s impeachment of Trump, and he questioned whether that (the Trump trial) itself was a diversionary tactic to avoid attention to the security breach (at the Capitol), the Wisconsin State Journal reported Tuesday, Feb. 16.
Johnson said it was the “vandals” who caused the riots at the Capitol, not the Trump supporters. He said, “The thousands of people who attended the Trump rally, they’re people who love this country.”
U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Texas) also said in a recent interview with Breitbart News that Democrats’ ultimate goal in impeaching Trump is to compare Trump supporters to congressional rioters and to equate those who attended the pro-Trump rally on Jan. 6 with the perpetrators at the Capitol.
Johnson also believes congressional Democrats may use impeachment more frequently as a political tool. “Now they’re lowering the bar on impeachment, weaponizing it, using it against a president they don’t like. They’ve opened a Pandora’s box, and we may never be able to close it again.”
Johnson, who was a constitutional lawyer for 20 years, specifically pointed out that this unconstitutional impeachment is an attempt to apply their “Culture of nullification” to the Constitution, meaning they want to nullify it.
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