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Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin's senior senator, said in a radio interview the Jan. 6 Capitol attack "didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me."

Donald Trump's acquittal in the Senate's impeachment trial -- and the backlash now facing Republicans who voted to convict him -- have exposed the deepening rift within the GOP over whether to continue to fully embrace the former President or seek to move past his divisive brand of politics.

'This didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me,' Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson says of Capitol attack Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel How rioters passed police lines and gained access to the Capitol Replay Video MADISON, Wis. - Two days after members of the U.S. Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump on a charge of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Wisconsin's senior senator questioned whether an armed insurrection even occurred.  U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson toured the state's airwaves on Monday making the claim, despite video footage and p...

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson appeared to downplay the deadly Capitol riot days after he voted to acquit former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial.

Ron Johnson's bold new idea: Publicly downplay the importance of a deadly attack on his own country's Capitol and parse the meaning of the word "armed."