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Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that Donald Trump’s impeachment was used by the Democrats to stigmatize all of the former president’s supporters with the Jan. 6 violence at the Capitol.
“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 Epoch Times.
Johnson said the impeachment was the Democrats' way of discrediting their adversaries. He said it was used as a political weapon.
“What [Democrats] tried to do [is] to raise ‘cancel culture’ now to a constitutional level,” Johnson said.
Trump lawyers argued that his speech “was not an act encouraging an organized movement to overthrow the United States government,” and called the allegation a “monstrous lie.”
The Senate voted 57–43 to convict Trump, 10 votes short of the two-thirds needed for conviction, clearing the former president of the “incitement of insurrection” he was accused of.
“This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country,” Trump said following his acquittal.
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