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Ron Johnson
U.S. Senator — Wisconsin
Voted to certify the 2020 presidential election on January 6-7, 2021. Voted to acquit at the second impeachment trial on the article charging incitement of insurrection, and on May 28, 2021 voted against the motion that would have established an independent commission to investigate the attack. The motion drew 54 votes to 35, short of the 60 it needed; no independent commission was ever created.
Documented conduct
Oct 4, 2022
Denied it was an insurrection
Said it again nineteen months later, adding that the protesters "did teach us" how a flagpole can be used as a weapon.
Source: CNN, October 4 2022
May 28, 2021
Voted to block the independent commission on the attack
Voted against cloture on the bill to establish a National Commission on the January 6 Attack. The motion drew 54 votes to 35, short of the 60 it needed, and the independent commission was never created.
Source: U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote No. 218, 117th Cong., 1st Sess.
Feb 15, 2021
Denied it was an insurrection
Said on WISN radio, two days after voting to acquit, that "this didn't seem like an armed insurrection to me", asking how many firearms had been confiscated and how many shots fired.
Source: CNN, February 16 2021
Feb 13, 2021
Voted to acquit at the second impeachment trial
Voted not guilty on the article charging incitement of insurrection. The vote was 57 to 43, ten short of the two thirds required to convict.
Source: U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote No. 59, 117th Cong., 1st Sess.