Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Saturday offered an alternative reality of the deadly Capitol insurrection earlier this year by falsely claiming a lack of violence on the Senate side during the attack.
I know he’s a traitor, and I know he’s stupid, but the upside-downism of this line of response is so stupid that it suggests he’s deeply panicked by the revelations that are coming.
Guess you thought they were part of your team and would do you no harm. You could have tested the theory by not hiding in a secret location and jumping out there with them and see how that turned out.
I watched a couple of clips of Johnson on Twitter telling his supporters at a town hall meeting that he didn’t feel threatened on the 6th, that there was no violence in the Senate, and that he had calmly returned to his office to do a radio interview. Then he lied about violent racial justice protesters again. He was speaking to a group of what appeared to be uninformed seniors who kept breaking out in delighted laughter and applause at his jokey manner of speaking. He otherized his critics and anyone who didn’t see things the way he and his comfy covey of clueless supporters did, and he said something along the lines of “This is why we do it. It’s all about Freedom.”
Um…there’s literally video of Senator Romney coming within feet of possibly getting killed, were it not for the heroism of Officer Goodman, and of Senator Schumer and his security team desperately trying to avoid the rampaging insurrectionists.
I don’t know what Johnson is trying to accomplish here, but his mendacity is damning.