Sen. Ron Johnson Claims Jan. 6 Was Not an 'Armed Insurrection' Because People Stayed 'Within the Rop

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Sen. Ron Johnson Claims Jan. 6 Was Not an ‘Armed Insurrection’ Because People Stayed ‘Within the Roped Lines’



By Katherine Huggins Jun 13th, 2021, 9:13 pm
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He referenced an eyewitness account, saying the vast majority were “in a jovial mood,” and while “they were serious, they weren’t violent.”

“I think it’s extremely important to create an accurate historical record of exactly what happened so the false narrative that thousands of armed insurrectionists doesn’t last,” Johnson continued. “That’s why I have my staff going and reviewing the relevant parts of the 14 hours worth of surveillance and we’re finding out some interesting things.”

Levin asked what the footage revealed, and Johnson replied that they counted “about 309 people” entering a door next to police without any confrontation.

He later concluded: “They weren’t rioting. It doesn’t look like an armed insurrection when you have people that breach the Capitol, and I don’t condone it, but they’re staying within the roped lines in the Rotunda. That’s not what armed insurrection would look like.”..............................

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Johnson is a dangerous nut case.

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[usaf-vet]

1. Ron Johnson is at the very least an idiotic sycophant. That doesn't deserve to be believed anytime..

... he opens his mouth.

[TNNurse]

2. Stupid, delusional or unable to see are the choices for him.

Or maybe all of them.

[PatSeg]

15. Or very seriously compromised

Sounds like someone(s) has some dirt on this guy. He is getting more absurd all the time.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Lying to himself, or perfectly aware of the agenda he is serving with his lies?

I say the latter. Doing what the money tells him to do.

[Goonch]

4. ;-{)

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. He's not a nut.

He’s trying to change the narrative.

Involvement in an “insurrection” gets a Congress person expelled.
Involvement in a “tourist event” does not get a Congress person expelled.

They desperately need this to be seen as a tourist event.

“Inside the rope lines”? C’mon, man!

[kacekwl]

6. Sadly, there are a lot of dummies in Wisconsin

who would still vote for him and his kind. Don't believe your lying eyes and ears.

[Lonestarblue]

12. Assuming he runs for re-election, is there a strong Democrat running against him?

Whoever is his opponent should show the Capitol police office being crushed in the door as well as the scenes of attackers beating down the doors in every ad against Johnson. Do voters want to send a delusional man to the Senate?

[plimsoll]

17. Scott Walker?

I think %51 of Wisconsin likes to be lied to.

[jaxexpat]

7. This is what happens when infants eat lead contaminated pablum, Ron Johnson syndrome.

[Botany]

8. Ron Johnson, "People stayed within rope lines."

Over $30 million in damage was done to the US Capitol and its grounds, 125 Capitol Police were injured, and
the Speaker of the House and the Vice President had to flee for fear of being murdered.

[duforsure]

9. Wasn't he one of the republican group from Congress who went to Russia ,

To kiss outings ass, on Independence Day? Wonder how much it cost Putin to compromise him to help him attack our Democracy?

[Botany]

14. Johnson knows that Russia instsalled him back into the senate in 2016

Russ Feingold was @ something like >90% chance of winning.

Russia was deep into Wisconsin in 2016. https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2017/01/23/russians-suspected-hacking-local-dems/96965824/

[dalton99a]

25. Yep. Russia did it for him.

[Botany]

32. Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Florida's exit polls in 2016 all had ...

... HRC winning. (From memory I might be wrong on some) What Manafort gave the Russian agent,
Konstantin Kilimnik, was not polling data but data analytics or what could be turned into data analytics
(weaponized data) so Russia knew where and by how much they had to rat fuck our elections.

In Wisconsin and in some other states too it was a two pronged attack. Remove people from voting
rolls .... In Wisconsin this was done in Dane & Milwaukee counties .... and in the smaller and or rural
counties "they" flipped or deleted some very targeted areas.

[Wild blueberry]

35. MoRon was in Moscow on July 4, 2018

He has never revealed what he was doing there. (There were about six or seven other RepubliQans there, too.)
What's Pootie got on you, MoRon?

[NoMoreRepugs]

10. Ron Johnson has made a serious bid here to

forever be known as the Louie Gohmert of the Senate.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Stupidest statement of the day

There were "rope lines" for those kicking in windows?? Without the former guy, he's stepped up to fill the stupidity gap.

[Tommymac]

13. Not much but the wife & I decided not to spend any tourist $$ in Wisconsin as long as J is in office

We are visiting Minnesota this summer and could have stayed in Wisconsin - our $$ are the only weapon of protest we have that will be of any impact, no matter how small.

We will instead contribute those funds to Johnson's Democratic challengers when the time comes.

[George II]

16. What videos was he watching?

[BumRushDaShow]

42. He was watching government property - the Speaker of the House's lectern

being stolen "while within the rope lines".

[AllaN01Bear]

18. good thing i didnt have food in my mouth when i read the headline.

liar,liar pants on fire . what rope lines .?

[Blues Heron]

19. They all broke through the security cordon

that's the first thing they all did before they even got to breaking the windows and forcing their way into the building. He's lying to rewrite history and minimize what happened.

[KS Toronado]

20. Any truth to the Alex Q Jones meme?

[Kablooie]

21. He found a few clips that showed people walking calmly in the Capitol.

And says we should use that as representative of the inssurection instead of the violent criminal moments where people were murdered.

Like saying the image of war should be of soldiers sitting around resting in their barracks not out in the world fighting.

[Danascot]

22. Pence was very lucky

he avoided the roped line that day.

[Comfortably_Numb]

23. It's not surprising when an idiot says stupid shit. It's disgusting that bigger idiots swallow it.

[Historic NY]

24. He must mean the rope meant for Mike Pence.

[keithbvadu2]

26. The ropes they wanted to use

"Hang Mike Pence" they chanted.

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[Paladin]

27. Stupid old bastard. (nt)

[keithbvadu2]

28. Did RoJo greet his tourists?

Did RoJo greet his tourists?

Within the roped lines?

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[oldsoftie]

29. There's only 100 videos showing the violence, dumbass nt

[dalton99a]

30. Much was broadcast live to the whole world

[Warpy]

31. I've been there. The ropes are to protect the statuary

from souvenir seekers. They are not in the way and there would have been no reason to cross them, the coup attempt wasn't focused on despoiling the images of dead politicians, it was focused on killing live ones.

If that had caught up to Johnson, "do you know who I am?" wouldn't have saved him, they wouldn't know him or any of his staffers if they had ribbons and labels on them

What passes for journalism falls flat on its face again. The follow up question should have been "then why did you evacuate the chamber along with everybody else?" I'd love to know the answer to that question.

[lastlib]

37. You mean the statuary that had MAGA-SHIT smeared on it?

yeah, sure, they stayed inside the ropes. Uh-huh, rii-iight.

[flibbitygiblets]

33. Could we get someone to photoshop the faces to look like POC

and change the Qrump flags to say "ANTIFA" or "BLM", and ask the good senator again for his opinion?

[Frustratedlady]

34. Did the woman who was shot as she tried to jump through the window of a door stay within the ropes?

How about the cop that was trapped as "visitors" crushed him until he screamed for help? Were they within the ropes?

The horned wonder. I didn't see any ropes around the desk/chair he was sitting on.

Dang, I've seen numerous videos but must have missed the organized group of visitors as they walked between the ropes, screaming for Mike Pence. The only rope I heard mentioned was the one they wanted to use to hang Pence.

In my old age, I guess my comprehension is totally skewed. Gotta work on that.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

36. Johnson: It is important "to create an accurate historical record" of the events on 1/6.

That was the purpose of the bipartisan commission your party blocked, you asshole. Quit trying to rewrite history to protect your Great Leader. You are just making yourself look like a bigger fool than you are.

[andym]

38. I hope that his lying statements linked with the video showing otherwise can be shown in WI

ASAP on TV in commercials by organizations opposed to his ugly politics.

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. So as long as a bank robber never enters "Employee only" areas, they're fine?

Ron Johnson has to be one of the top 5 of the absolutely most ignorant senators this country has ever had.

Compare him to Tammy Baldwin, and it really makes one wonder what the fucking fuck Wisconsin voters want.

[LudwigPastorius]

40. Ron Johnson is disseminating disinformation and is defending traitors.

That makes him a traitor to the Constitution and to his oath to protect it.

[world wide wally]

41. In a just world, Johnson would have been made to clean the shit off the walls

[thesquanderer]

43. re: "extremely important to create an accurate historical record"

So how did he vote on having a bipartisan investigation? Let me guess...

[Omaha Steve]

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