'This didn't look like an armed insurrection.'
Trump ultra-loyalist senator Ron Johnson
plays down danger of the MAGA riots saying
'How many shots were fired?'
Daily Mail (UK) & Associated Press,
by
Katelyn Caralle
&
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
2/16/2021 10:24:31 AM
Ron Johnson said Monday that the MAGA riot 'didn't seem like an armed insurrection to me' in downplaying the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol last month that left five dead and hundreds injured.'When you hear the word 'armed,' don't you think of firearms?' Johnson questioned during his conversation with 1130 WISN conservative radio talk show host Jay Weber.'Here's the questions I would have liked to ask — how many firearms were confiscated?' the Trump loyalist senator continued. '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.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 2/16/2021 10:26:27 AM (No. 697820)
A genuine insurrection would have had a different ending than this Antifa malarkey
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 2/16/2021 10:44:35 AM (No. 697848)
A few misdemeanor citations were issued. How many did President Lincoln have to issue. This whole thing is made up nonsense. let Pelosi have her 9/11 style 'commission'. It will be another smoking cigar.
8 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
TJ54 2/16/2021 10:55:22 AM (No. 697861)
The Daily Mail is as worthless as the National Review. I never click on their “news” articles
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bad-hair 2/16/2021 11:36:59 AM (No. 697916)
During 25 years at sea I must say I've been in bigger bar fights. Alaska is particularly good a this.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 2/16/2021 11:37:50 AM (No. 697919)
DM is such a piece of garbage.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
skacmar 2/16/2021 12:04:30 PM (No. 697974)
Sorry, but when I picture an armed siege and insurrection, I picture the Capitol going up in flames and people with guns taking people out! Armed insurrection? Sen Ron Johnson is correct in that there were not any real "weapons". There is so much misinformation going around that is going unchallenged by both TV and print media. "Journalists" are too lazy to examine what really happened and are just reporting what fits their narrative of evil Trump supporters. The article however continued the lie about five people being killed during the "seige". Only 1 person was actually killed, by Capitol Police. 3 died from medical issues. The Capitol Police Officer who died passed away from an undisclosed reason. The fire extinguisher attack has been discredited as untrue and it has been reported that he may have died from a stroke.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/16/2021 12:15:02 PM (No. 697996)
Ultra loyalist? I think I like it, and I'll start calling myself an ultra loyalist. Feels kinda like royalty or something.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 2/16/2021 12:15:23 PM (No. 697999)
I guess they can stop trying to take our guns away if we don't even bring them to the insurrection. Of course one shot was fired right into Ashlie Babbitt's neck.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 2/16/2021 12:17:12 PM (No. 698000)
Can't read these liars, Daily Mail (UK) & Associated Press, because they are worse than the NYT and LAT put together.
3 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 2/16/2021 12:55:30 PM (No. 698053)
6 Jan was a trespass. The violent attacks across America throughout 2020 were the insurrection.
6 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/16/2021 1:26:35 PM (No. 698085)
I won't defend the POlice officer so long as the powers that be are keeping them anonymous. If it was a praise-worthy act, they should be publicly lauded, but from their actions, I strongly suspect the officer heard someone in his ear, insisting he shoot, and he caved. And now he has to live with causing the only death by violence in the "riot". He must be so proud, killing a four tour Air force veteran.
3 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
CactusStar 2/16/2021 1:44:52 PM (No. 698105)
Usually not worth the time commenting on this source, but this is the first time I've heard about "hundreds" being injured.
2 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
moebellini3 2/16/2021 1:50:00 PM (No. 698115)
All B.S., the only shot fired was by a yet unidentified person who shot an unarmed woman. A woman who was no threat to anyone or anything. This whole riot has been blown out of proportion. Get over it and move on.
3 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 2/16/2021 2:07:34 PM (No. 698131)
Who murdered Ashli Babbitt?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/16/2021 2:14:03 PM (No. 698134)
The media TOLD us it was an insurrection. The media not only tells us what to think, they now tell us what we see. Don't buy anything these people are selling.
If this was a real insurrection, the capitol building (and others) would have been reduced to rubble with many casualties.
This wasn't an insurrection.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
red1066 2/16/2021 4:16:23 PM (No. 698284)
Just as anyone whose been paying attention knows. This was no insurrection, because no official was attacked. It was an unofficial tour of the Capitol led by Antifa and BLM and directed by the anti Trump, anti American traitors in D.C.
2 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
JimBob 2/16/2021 6:59:00 PM (No. 698440)
The Leftist Bias is on display in the title.
"Trump ultra-loyalist senator".
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
smokincol 2/16/2021 8:13:48 PM (No. 698527)
Ron Johnson is absolutely correct.
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