“To call what happened on January 6 an armed insurrection, I just think is not accurate.”
Ron Johnson
U.S. Sen.. Public statement. Claim dated 4 Oct 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
In short
Ron Johnson (U.S. Sen.) made this claim around 4 October 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 October 2022, 6 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Ron Johnson has 43 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 21 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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