Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson has accused a leading Holocaust scholar of engaging in what he called “malicious poison” — criticising his rhetoric downplaying the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol.
Mr Johnson, a two-term Republican who has become infamous for his embrace of conspiracy theories and quackery on subjects ranging from Covid-19 to the Capitol insurrection, attacked Emory University Professor Deborah Lipstadt at a Senate foreign relations committee hearing to confirm her nomination as the State Department’s special envoy for combatting antisemitism.
