{"id":1283524,"date":"2022-02-08T22:37:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T03:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1283524"},"modified":"2022-02-08T22:37:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T03:37:37","slug":"sen-ron-johnson-confronts-biden-nominee-deborah-lipstadt-over-her-white-supremacy-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-ron-johnson-confronts-biden-nominee-deborah-lipstadt-over-her-white-supremacy-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ron Johnson Confronts Biden Nominee Deborah Lipstadt Over Her \u2018White Supremacy\u2019 Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-ron-johnson-confronts-biden-nominee-deborah-lipstadt-over-her-white-supremacy-tweet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1283524&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson confronted President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee for Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Debroah Lipstadt, Tuesday for previously suggesting he is a \u201cwhite nationalist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/13\/ron-johnson-donald-trump-capitol-riot-black-lives-matter-antifa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> a hypothetical storming of the Capitol by Black Lives Matter and Antifa would have caused him to be \u201ca little concerned\u201d in March, 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/03\/deborah-lipstadt-ilhan-omar-anti-semitism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lipstadt<\/a> called the senator\u2019s remarks \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d and \u201cwhite nationalism\u201d in a March 14 tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is white supremacy\/nationalism. Pure and simple. GOP Senator Johnson slammed as \u2018white nationalist sympathizer\u2019 after race remarks <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9vaBQsqK7J\">https:\/\/t.co\/9vaBQsqK7J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deborah E. Lipstadt (@deborahlipstadt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deborahlipstadt\/status\/1371073969961467905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Johnson mentioned Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2019s previous statement about public figures engaging in \u201cmalicious poison\u201d circulating across social media at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. He then questioned Lipstadt on her hypothetical reaction if accused of being a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/15\/joe-scarborough-al-sharpton-ron-johnson-bigot-capitol-riot-black-lives-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was interesting to hear Senator Schumer talk about the malicious poison and what\u2019s happening on social media so often it\u2019s just malicious. And this comes as I think you said in your opening statement from across the political spectrum,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cLet me ask you a question, if somebody came up to you privately, quietly, and said \u2018you\u2019re a racist. You\u2019re a white supremacist. You\u2019re a white nationalist.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cBy the way, I do not believe you are, I would never assume that because certainly growing up when I was being taught the commandment that says \u2018Do not bear false witness\u2019 my Lutheran catechism says \u2018always put the best construction on things.\u2019 In other words, always assume the best about people, not the worst. So, how would you feel somebody, just privately, called you a racist?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lipstadt replied that her criticisms do not \u201cascribe to the person.\u201d Johnson, referring to her tweet, said she falsely testified to Congress regarding her criticisms by evidently engaging in the \u201cmalicious poison.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/15\/ron-johnson-maria-bartiromo-capitol-riot-black-lives-matter-antifa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018The Left Is Happy To Use The Race Card\u2019: Sen. Ron Johnson Pushes Back On Claims His Capitol Riot Comments Were \u2018Racist\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that\u2019s not true,\u201d the senator replied. \u201cWhat you just testified there is false. Because not only did you go on\u2014first of all, you don\u2019t know me. You don\u2019t know a lot of the people that you have accused online in front of millions of people. You have engaged in the malicious poison. You\u2019ve accused people you don\u2019t know, a very vile thing. I mean wouldn\u2019t you agree that probably calling somebody a racist is just a shot under murderer and rapist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalling somebody a racist is about as serious and vile an accusation as you can hurt over something against somebody you don\u2019t even know. You\u2019ve never talked to me, you\u2019ve never met me. You don\u2019t know what\u2019s in my heart, do you?\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I do not know what\u2019s in your heart at all\u2026 As I said earlier, it was not nuanced,\u201d Lipstadt said. \u201cI would not do diplomacy by tweet. While I may disagree with what you said specifically and I think that\u2019s a legitimate difference, I certainly did not mean it and I\u2019m sorry if I made it in a way that it could be assumed to be political at the person personally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senator said her \u201cmalicious poison\u201d is partisan, though an individual holding the position is not supposed to take partisan stances. Though he accepted her apology, Johnson said he cannot support her nomination on the grounds that she has \u201cought to know better\u201d than to make those kinds of accusations publicly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson confronted President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee for Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Debroah Lipstadt, Tuesday for previously suggesting he is a \u201cwhite nationalist.\u201dJohnson said &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}