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Johnson made the comments to 1130 WISN radio host Jay Weber on Monday after his vote on Saturday to acquit Trump. The comments he made in the episode were first reported by the Wisconsin State Journal.
“This will get me in trouble, but I don’t care,” Johnson said. He argued that “groups of troublemakers” are to blame for the uprising in the Capitol and not “tens of thousands of Trump supporters.”
“The group of people who supported Trump, the hundreds of thousands of people who attended those Trump rallies, that’s the people who love this country,” Johnson told Weber. “They never would have done what happened on January 6. That’s a group of people who love freedom; that’s a group of people that we have to unite and stay 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 House impeachment managers of editing the videos they presented as evidence in the Senate impeachment trial.
The videos, many of which had not been made public before the trial, provided poignant new details from last month’s attack, including highlighting close calls between lawmakers and the crowd. In one security camera video, Sen. Mitt Romney
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Johnson said in the interview that the videos were “very selectively edited” and that the lawsuit did not have a fair trial. He also wondered if the group was really an “armed” uprising.
“When you hear the word ‘armed’, don’t you think of firearms? These are the questions I would have liked to ask: how many firearms have been seized? How many shots have been fired? I only know one, and I do. will defend that law enforcement officer for taking that shot, it was a tragedy, but I think there was only one, “Johnson said.” If that was a planned armed uprising, man, you really had a bunch of idiots. “
Johnson, a staunch ally of Trump, has argued that the defense has “gutted” Democratic prosecutors and “blown their case out of the water.” After vote to acquit Trump, Johnson clashed with Romney on the Senate floor about his voice to condemn.
Johnson seemed angry with reporters on Saturday who later asked him about his conversation with Romney.
“Those are private. Those are private conversations,” Johnson said.