The Senate's biggest ignoramus and Wisconsin's shame Sen. Ron "Tiny" Johnson has opined on the violent, Trump-instigated insurrectionist riot on January 6, and he says he didn't see it the way the vast majority of Americans saw it. In an interview with WISN-AM in Milwaukee, Johnson had this head spinning, gas lighting statement that he dug out of his nether regions:
“When you hear the word ‘armed,’ don’t you think of firearms?” Johnson said. “Here’s the questions I would have liked to ask — how many firearms were confiscated? How many shots were fired? I’m only aware of one, and I’ll defend that law enforcement officer for taking that shot. It was a tragedy, but I think there was only one. If that was a planned armed insurrection, man, you had really a bunch of idiots.”
In the first place, Johnson calling others "idiots" is supreme pot-meet-kettle. Leaving that aside, law enforcement confiscated an array of firearms and other weapons before and during the insurrection, including an AR-15, a shotgun, a Glock 9mm with extended magazine, a Tavor X95 assault rifle, knives, machetes, and a 950,000 volt stun gun/walking stick. Also, as the colleagues and family of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick and the 140 wounded Capitol and Metropolitan DC police can tell you, clubs, bats, metal poles, chemical spray, brass knuckles and a metal fire extinguisher can inflict serious and deadly injury. Johnson's attempt at downplaying the white supremacist riot was awarded a "Pants on Fire" rating by the fact checking PolitiFact. There's more here, here, and here.
Johnson, who's also Russia's favorite Senator for disseminating their anti-American propaganda, is up for re-election in 2022, but hasn't declared his candidacy. We hope if he does run that Wisconsinites recognize him for what he is -- a weak-minded, lying, authoritarian, boot licking Trump cultist -- and send him into ignominious retirement.
(photo: If his lips are moving, Tiny Johnson's lying)
