I might have felt in danger if BLM, Antifa had stormed the Capitol.

Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson is under fire after saying in an interview that he might have felt threatened during the Jan.6 riot on Capitol Hill if Black Lives protesters and members Antifa had stormed the Capitol. “Even though those thousands of people walking up to the Capitol were trying to pressure people like me to vote the way they wanted me to vote, I knew they were people who love this country, who really respect the law enforcement, would never do anything. to break the law, so I wasn’t worried, ”Johnson said in an interview with“ The Joe Pags Show ”radio show. Johnson was speaking of recent comments in which he downplayed the danger posed by the riot and said he didn’t ‘feel really threatened’ that day.

Johnson then said something he seemed to know would be controversial. “Now if the tables had been turned – Joe, that might get me in trouble – if the tables had been turned and President Trump won the election and it was tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters and Antifa, I might have been a little concerned, ” the senator from Wisconsin said. Talk show host Joe “Pags” Pagliarulo looked a little surprised at what he heard but ultimately agreed with Johnson. “Wow, that’s a big statement,” he says. “But that’s a real statement.” None of them seem to remember the videos showing pro-Trump rioters attacking police officers. At least five people died as a result of the riot, including a police officer. Two other police officers later died by suicide and more than 100 other law enforcement officers were injured.

Some were quick to call Johnson’s statements racist. Representative Mark Pocan of Wisconsin said the comments were “seriously embarrassing for our condition», Adding that« we have gone from simple marginal, extremist declamations, to extremist and racist diatribes ». Wisconsin State Senator LaTonya Johnson agreed. “What, white people love this country and black people don’t?” That’s exactly what he’s saying, ”Johnson said. “For him to say something as racist as that is ridiculous. Representative Ted Lieu from California also lambasted Johnson, highlighting on twitter that “the mob murdered a policeman and injured 140 other policemen.”

Johnson stuck to his words. “Of the 7,750 protests last summer associated with the BLM and Antifa, 570 turned into violent riots that killed 25 people and caused $ 1 billion to $ 2 billion in property damage. That’s why I would have been more worried, ”Johnson said in a statement.