In for a penny, in for a pound: Sen. Ron Johnson hopes someone will believe that the rioters who marched from a Trump rally to the Capitol on 1.6 weren’t Trump supporters at all. (Most likely, he does not expect rational people to believe this; he hopes to soothe the feelings of the irrational faction that already believes these lies, and that has never accepted the truth of Biden’s win or of Trump’s incitement of insurrection.)
Credit, of sorts, to Johnson: he’s in for a pound, as evidently dishonest as anyone in Congress.
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