“I completely did not anticipate that anybody could interpret what I said as racist,” Johnson said. ADADTo the momentary credit of Johnson’s interviewer Monday, conservative host Dan O’Donnell, O’Donnell mentioned that comment to Johnson while following up. “Remember those leftist activists, those protesters, some of them turned violent and turned into riots — a lot of them are White,” Johnson said. Few of them are downplaying what happened that day or have made similar arguments suggesting it wasn’t actually Trump supporters. They’ve merely argued that Trump wasn’t culpable or that impeaching and convicting him wasn’t warranted.

Source: Washington Post March 15, 2021 20:10 UTC