On Jan. 6, 2021, Sen. Ron Johnson texted with a Wisconsin-based attorney heading up legal efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state, Johnson acknowledged on Tuesday.
On Jan. 6, 2021, Sen. Ron Johnson texted with a Wisconsin-based attorney heading up legal efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state, the lawmaker acknowledged on Tuesday. “You can’t even call it participation,” Johnson told NBC News, adding he “wrote a couple texts” to lawyer Jim Troupis both before and after the senator’s staff unsuccessfully attempted to deliverto then-Vice President Mike Pence.
“You respond to it.” The senator made the admission after a speech to the Milwaukee Rotary Club on Tuesday morning in which he downplayed the severity of the Capitol attacks. “The ‘armed insurrectionists’ stayed within the rope lines in the Rotunda,” he scoffed, making air-quotes with his fingers. “I’m sorry—that’s not what an armed insurrection would look like.” Johnson added that the rioters “did teach us how you can use flagpoles, that kind of stuff, as weapons.
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