Crime

Sen. Johnson downplays talk about Capitol threat

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4 years ago

March 4, 2021

The U.S. Capitol is partly shut down for Thursday, because of threats in social media to launch another citizen attack on the building, like the one on January 6th.

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson tells WIZM’S ‘La Crosse Talk’ there’s always concern about threats in Washington, but he hopes that nothing will come of this latest conspiracy talk.

“The vast majority of these threats are some crackpot just using social media to make wild threats that really nothing ever comes of them,” said Johnson. “Keep your fingers crossed that that’s the case here as well.”

Johnson says although the January riot at the Capitol in Washington was a very bad experience, he thinks some people make it sound worse than it was. The senator says it appears only a small number of the protesters had firearms.

“There’s all the narrative that this was thousands of armed insurrectionists intent on overthrowing the government. I just don’t think that’s really an accurate description of what happened,” said Johnson. He

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