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Johnson made the comments until 1130, WISN radio show host Jay Weber on the Monday following his vote Saturday to acquit Trump. The comments he made in the episode were first reported by the Wisconsin State Journal.
“This is going to cause me problems, but I don’t care,” Johnson said. He argued that “agitator groups” are to blame for the Capitol riot and not “tens of thousands of Trump supporters.”
“The group of people who supported Trump, the hundreds of thousands of people who attended Trump’s rallies, 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; it is a group of people we need to unify and keep on our side.”
Johnson, who has not said whether he will run for re-election in 2022, condemned the violence in the interview, but said “it didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.”
He accused the House’s dismissal managers of editing the videos they presented as evidence in the Senate removal trial.
The videos, many of which had not been publicly released before the trial, provided new details of the attack last month, including highlighting upcoming calls between lawmakers and the crowd. In a video security camera, Sen. Mitt Romney
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Johnson said in the interview that the videos were “selectively edited” and that the trial did not have due process. He also questioned whether the group was really an “armed” insurrection.
“When you hear the word ‘armed’, don’t they look like firearms? Here are the questions I would have liked to ask: how many firearms were confiscated? How many shots were fired? I’m just aware of that. I’ll defend this officer from police for firing that shot, it was a tragedy, but I think there was only one, ”Johnson said. “If this was a planned armed insurrection, man, you’d actually have a bunch of idiots.”
Johnson, a staunch ally of Trump, has argued that the defense “gutted” Democratic prosecutors and “blew their case out of the water.” After voting to acquit Trump, Johnson he collided with Romney on the Senate floor on his vote to condemn.
Johnson appeared angry Saturday with reporters who later asked him about his exchange with Romney.
“They’re private. They’re private conversations,” Johnson said.