Posted on 02/15/2021 12:33:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that Democrats used the impeachment of former President Donald Trump as a tool to paint all of his supporters with the brush of Capitol breach-related criminality.
Johnson told Breitbart News in an interview on Feb. 14 that the ultimate aim of impeaching Trump a second time was to associate the 75 million Americans who voted for him with those individuals who on Jan. 6 broke the law.
“They really wanted to use impeachment as a vehicle because they wanted to equate all those tens of millions of Trump’s voters and all of his supporters and everybody who came to the rally, they wanted to equate all of those people with the couple hundred criminals who came in and ransacked the Capitol,” Johnson told the outlet.
rioters riotersRioters storm the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (John Minchillo/AP Photo) Asked about the future of impeachment, Johnson said it would increasingly become a tool of partisan spats.
“You weaponized this. You turned it into a political weapon to be used by the majority party against a president they don’t like. You opened a Pandora’s box that we may never be able to close again,” Johnson said.
“What [Democrats] tried to do [is] to raise ‘cancel culture’ now to a constitutional level,” Johnson added, echoing remarks made on Friday by David Schoen, one of the three attorneys representing Trump who accused Democrats of using impeachment as a tool to disqualify political opponents.
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It's not rocket science.
It’s obvious to us, but not to 99.9% of the nation. It’s good that Johnson is putting it out there this bluntly.
Of course, the MSM won’t touch his remarks at all. Nobody will hear what he said.
Not that obvious as people are complaining that they cannot get past the “pay wall.”
Just the title and posted excerpt should be enough..............
Didn’t get any paint on me, but the more idiotic statements like this these Rats make, the stupider they show themselves to be.
I’m even MORE DEPLORABLE!
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