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Johnson commented to 1130 WISN radio talk show host Jay Weber Monday after his vote Saturday to acquit Trump. The comments he made in the episode were: first reported by the Wisconsin State Journal.
“It’s going to get me in trouble, but I do not care,” Johnson said. He argued that “groups of agitators” were to blame for the riot in the Capitol and not “tens of thousands of Trump supporters”.
“The group of people who supported Trump, the hundreds of thousands of people who attended the Trump rallies, these are the people who love this country,” Johnson told Weber. “They would never have done what happened on January 6. This is a group of people who love freedom; this is a group of people that we must unite and keep on our side.”
Johnson, who did not say whether he would run for re-election in 2022, condemned the violence in the interview, but said it was not an armed uprising for me. ‘
He accuses the House’s indictment managers of modifying the videos they presented as evidence in the Senate indictment.
The videos, many of which were not released in public before the trial, gave disturbing details of the attack last month, including calls between lawmakers and the mob. In a security camera video, Sen. Mitt Romney
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Johnson said in the interview that the videos were “very selectively processed” and that the trial lacked a process. He also questioned whether the group was really an ‘armed’ uprising.
“When you hear the word ‘armed’, do you not think of firearms? Here are the questions I would like to ask: how many firearms were confiscated? How many shots were fired? I only know one, and I I will defend that law enforcement officer “because he took that shot, it was a tragedy, but I think there was only one,” Johnson said. “If it was a planned armed uprising, man, you really had a bunch of idiots.”
Johnson, a trusted ally of Trump, argued that the defense “wiped out” the Democratic prosecutors and “blew their case out of the water.” After voting to acquit Trump, Johnson clashes with Romney on Senate floor about his vote to convict.
Johnson appeared angry at reporters on Saturday who later asked him about his exchange with Romney.
“It’s private. It’s private conversations,” Johnson said.