Johnson Peddles Falsehoods Of ‘No Violence’ On Senate Side During Capitol Attack | Talking Points Memo

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.


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Johnson doubled down on his previous assertion of not feeling threatened amid the deadly Capitol insurrection that left five dead.

Once again he’s relying on the reptilian parts of his brain.

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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.

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Would that he had bravely chosen to remain as his ‘people’ sacked the capital building.

He is but a tiny dog yipping at people from underneath a couch. Big brave man. Spreading hateful, harmful falsehoods.

A true coward.

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The only thing I would be afraid of is a brain-dead RonJon zombie horde. Aka, the 1/6 traitors.

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I could post this song every day

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He just can’t quite bring himself to admit that the insurrection was awesome.

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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.

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by falsely claiming a lack of violence on the Senate side during the attack.

So now Moscow Ron is at the bargaining stage.

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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.”

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It’s time to put Ron Johnson in the same bucket as Kellyanne Conway and Kayleigh McEnany. Compulsive liars that that are best to ignore.

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He’s not even smart enough to know when to STFU!

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Maybe RonJon was just having a bad day?

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Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconson: Proudly walking in Sen. Joe McCarthy’s footsteps.

When is he going to face a similar rebuke on the Senate floor? He certainly deserves it.

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He’s trying to occupy the T**** bucket. And succeeding.

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“I could post this song every day”

Please do! And add the Violent Femme’s “America is (the Home of the Hypocrite)”
Plus “Kiss Off” for desert.

Gordon Gano is God.
(And also from Wisconsin)

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“That has now been twisted, contorted into calling me a racist.”

I think we can all see where the twisting and contorting is taking place.

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Good to know whose side Republicans are on.

he would have felt more threatened if…

…it wasn’t fascists attacking the government.

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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.

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I’ve been a fan since… I don’t remember.

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