February 23, 2021 1:11 p.m.
To Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), the events of Jan 6. may all fit into a grand, left-wing conspiracy.
At a Tuesday hearing with officials charged with defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, Johnson broke with other senators by declining to use the majority of his time to ask questions. Instead, he read from an article which suggested that a fifth column of Antifa provocateurs staged the insurrection.
Johnson read out excerpts of the piece which claimed that “agents provocateurs, fake Trump supporters” were behind the attack.
“These apparent agents-provocateurs placed hundreds of unsuspecting supporters of the president in physical danger,” the article reads at one point.
I Saw Provocateurs At The Capitol Riot On Jan. 6
January 14, 2021
The deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol bore the markings of an organized operation planned well in advance of the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress.
A small number of cadre appeared to use the cover of a huge rally to stage its attack. Before it began, I saw from my vantage point on the West Front of the Capitol what appeared to be four separate cells or units:
Plainclothes militants. Militant, aggressive men in Donald Trump and MAGA gear at a front police line at the base of the temporary presidential inaugural platform;