Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., Described the pro-Trump insurgents who stormed the Capitol on January 6 as people who “respect law enforcement” and “love this country” in a radio interview Friday and expressed their concern had been the protesters or members of Antifa as the mob Black Lives Matter.
Johnson said he “never felt threatened” when thousands of rioters broke through barricades, forcing Congress to evacuate parts of the building and abruptly interrupting a ceremonial event, confirming that President-elect Joe Biden entered the election November won. In one dramatic moment, police officers pulled out guns as rioters tried to break into the living room. The day left several dead, including a police officer, and more than 100 other officers injured.
‘And especially because I knew that although the thousands of people marching on the Capitol were trying to force people like me to vote the way they wanted me to vote, I knew it was people who loved this country, who truly respected law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law, so I was not worried, ‘Johnson told The Joe Pags Show, which airs nationwide from WOAI in San Antonio, Texas.
‘If the tables were turned, now Joe’s going to get me in trouble, if the tables were turned and President Trump won the election, and there were tens of thousands of protesters from Black Lives Matter and Antifa, I might have been a little worried. ”
His remarks to the radio program presenter were voiced on social media, and some call it racist. The pre-Trump mob was largely white and terrorized reporters, police and lawmakers. However, this is not Johnson’s first comment on the eyebrow on the January 6 attack. Others also took note of the heavy presence and reaction of the police last summer when Black Lives Matter organizers protested against police brutality.
Johnson, a staunch Trump supporter, was recently nicknamed “RonAnon” – based on the convoluted and unfounded QAnon conspiracies – for spreading conspiracy theories about the attack.
In February, after Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump of inciting riots in his second indictment, he told another conservative radio talk show that the January 6 attack “did not look like an armed uprising to me.” He also described the indictment at the time as “vengeful and divisive”, claiming it was a “diversionary operation” by Democrats to divert security from the US Capitol.
