Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., on Friday’s episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight criticized congressional Democrats for their double standard on law enforcement.
“I support law enforcement, unlike Democrats who only support law enforcement that protects them,” he said.
For the past year, Democrats have called for fewer police officers in America’s most dangerous Democrat-controlled cities, but they want more police officers to protect them from the mostly peaceful protesters who loitered in the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“The fact of the matter is, on January 6th the line officers did an exemplary job of protecting members of Congress, but their leadership, congressional leadership, Capitol Hill police leadership, utterly failed those line officers as well as their mission,” he said.
Johnson responded to the announcement that the no-longer-aptly-named Capitol Police will open field offices in California and Florida. The Capitol Police said field offices will help them investigate threats to Congress members, The Hill reported.
“So now they want to expand their mission beyond the Capitol Hill, but they ought to focus on what they failed to do on January 6th and they ought to focus on the mission of protecting the Capitol, and members of Congress in the Capitol, not out in the states,” he said.
At the same time that Congress wants to send federal agents to harass America’s citizens, the Capitol Police announced that it may have to furlough officers, MSNBC reported.
Carlson highlighted another double standard.
“The imagery here is making people radical,” he said. “They tell you, ‘You’re not allowed to have a wall to protect the national border because that’s racist,’ but then Congress builds a wall around its own office building to protect it from American citizens.”
Johnson said the Democrats “like that narrative.”
“That fence should have been taken down for sure the day after the inauguration, but it was allowed to stand because it perpetuated the false narrative that 75 million Americans who voted for President Trump were suspected domestic terrorists, and the Capitol needed to be protected against them,” he said.