Media Matters’s Eric Kleefeld
laid out the relevant context in an article from December:
Johnson
spoke bluntly at last week’s state legislative hearing, telling House Oversight Chairman Matt Hall that the witnesses presented by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani should’ve been sworn in: “You’re allowing people to come in here and lie. And I know they’re lying.”
Following that hearing, she became the target of almost 100
racist and threatening phone calls, with
multiple callers saying that she would be lynched and one woman telling her, “You should be swinging from a f------ rope, you Democrat.”
Johnson responded with a video
posted Tuesday on Facebook, announcing that a woman who threatened her had been tracked down by the FBI and state police: “So, this is just a warning to you Trumpers — be careful, walk lightly. We ain’t playing with you. Enough of the shenanigans. Enough is enough.”
So, instead of threatening Trump supporters, Johnson’s comments were actually aimed at getting them to stop threatening her. In context, they actually reveal one of the ways in which Trump’s rhetoric incited his followers in the weeks leading up to January 6.