EXCERPT:
WILLIAMS: “Meanwhile, one of the 43 Republican senators who acquitted Trump gave this extraordinary interpretation of the events of 1/6 during a radio interview just this morning.”
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JOHNSON: “The fact of the matter is, this didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me. If that was a planned armed insurrection, man, you had really a bunch of idiots. I’m sitting back in my office watching video of the armed insurrectionists staying within the lines inside the Capitol. I’m seeing a bunch of people milling about. You know, it wasn’t till I really saw the video in the trial that you really saw, you know, what was happening and how officers got injured.”
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WILLIAMS: “Unbelievable explanation from Ron Johnson, which we’ve had translated from the original Russian, of course. If you were watching on Saturday, you saw Mitch McConnell convict Trump in his speech moments after acquitting him. The guy who held off the trial until Trump left the presidency said they just couldn’t convict Trump because he had left the presidency. Tonight McConnell has a new op-ed in ‘The Wall Street Journal,’ apparently written by gaslight, responding to complaints that his scheduling decisions somehow affected the Senate’s ability to actually remove Trump from office before he left January 20th.”