During its primetime show trial last Thursday, the January 6 select committee mentioned the lives of police officers that were lost that day, and the committee sent out a tweet reminding us that Officer Brian Sicknick “succumbed to his injuries” the next day, even though the medical examiner concluded that Sicknick had died of natural causes: “acute brainstem and cerebellar infarcts due to acute basilar artery thrombosis.” A stroke.
On January 9th, two of President Trump’s top campaign officials texted each other about the President’s glaring silence on the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who succumbed to his injuries the night of January 7th. pic.twitter.com/vh4v7qwQYp
— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) July 22, 2022
President Biden has said that criminals killed a police officer at the Capitol, and police officers who died much later, some by suicide, are routinely counted as casualties of January 6. There were deaths that day: Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed, and half-a-dozen other people died of natural causes. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre noted that Biden has said law enforcement endured three hours of “medieval hell” and were “dripping in blood, surrounded by carnage.”
.@POTUS says Trump watched in the comfort of his private dining room "while brave law enforcement officers were subjected to the medieval hell for 3 hours dripping in blood surrounded by carnage face to face with crazed mob that believed the lies of the defeated President"
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) July 25, 2022
“While he was doing that, brave law enforcement officers were subject to the medieval hell for three hours, dripping in blood, surrounded by carnage," Biden said, adding Trump lacked courage to act.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) July 25, 2022
I thought he was fighting with the FBI agents and trying to commandeer the Limo🤔
— allinforjc (@DBetsill) July 25, 2022
No, strangling Secret Service agents and lunging at the steering wheel of the SUV.
None of that happened, but multiple Trump supporters were killed, such as Rosanne Boyland and Ashley Babbit
— KennyFingP (@fing_p) July 25, 2022
Lol we’re not heading into a recession either
— Brad Dowd (@DowdBrad32) July 25, 2022
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre when asked about President Biden’s forceful remarks calling out Donald Trump for January 6th:
“Brave law enforcement were subjected to medieval hell for three hours … The former president bears responsibility for that.” pic.twitter.com/fQn4pwhk6Q
— The Recount (@therecount) July 25, 2022
Maybe if the January 6 select committee were more committed to finding out what actually happened that day and how it was allowed to happen, we’d learn a lot more about how things got out of hand. But surrounded by carnage? Come on, man.
Related:
Brit Hume drags Jan. 6 Committee ‘Republicans’ for deliberately IGNORING Pentagon memo proving Trump absolutely wanted to AVOID violencehttps://t.co/qeBIEFJLr4
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 24, 2022