Sen. Johnson says riot at Capitol did not seem like an ‘armed insurrection’

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., signaled in an interview on Monday that identifying last month’s deadly riot at the Capitol as an “armed insurrection” may be an overstatement.

Johnson, who voted to acquit former President Trump at his second impeachment trial, condemned the violence at the Capitol in the interview with 1130 WISN. He spoke about the terminology that was used to describe the events and said it seemed that the riot did not reach the level of an "armed insurrection." "I mean armed, when you hear armed, don’t you think of firearms?" he 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's a planned armed insurrection, man, you had really a bunch of idiots." (Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed in the halls of the Capitol during the breach.)