Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said on Tuesday that it’s “inaccurate” to name the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol an “armed riot.”

Remaining yr, Johnson pretty much mentioned the identical factor: “This didn’t appear to be an armed revolt to me. While you hear the word ‘armed,’ don’t you think of firearms? Here’s the questions I might have favored to ask: What number of firearms were confiscated? How many pictures have been fired?”

When asked at an event hosted by means of the Rotary Club of Milwaukee if “you might have made those precise feedback if the protesters had been helping [the] Black Lives Matter movement or searching for to disrupt the Senate…”

Johnson refrained from the query.

Neatly initially, there weren’t lots of armed insurrectionists. I requested the query of the FBI agent [during] a hearing on this and mentioned what number of firearms had been confiscated either in the Capitol or on Capitol grounds. I don’t comprehend the answer. For all I know is it might be a thousand. No. Zero. Zero.

Now one of the most protesters did educate us all how it is advisable to use flag poles, that roughly stuff as weapons. But to name what came about on Jan. 6 an “armed rebel” I simply suppose is just not accurate. You saw the photographs within the Capitol I saw that day. The armed insurrectionists stayed inside the rope traces in the Rotunda.

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(h/t Natasha Korecki)

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