Washington Examiner writer Jerry Dunleavy apparently felt it necessary to tweet out a thread noting that the medical examiner’s report, released in April 2021 (more than 100 days after the riot), concluded that Sicknick died of natural causes. This, from a Red State contributor known as “Bonchie,” was a typical response:Īnother Twitter user inveighed against committee vice chair Liz Cheney and her staffer Jeremy Adler for abetting a deception and exploiting Sicknick’s death for political purposes: MAGA Twitter quickly pounced, accusing the committee of perpetrating a fraud. 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. 6th were appalled by Trump’s silence about Sicknick’s death. On July 21, the committee’s social media account tweeted out screenshots of text messages between two Trump campaign officials, Tim Murtaugh and Matthew Wolking, who in the days after Jan. Inevitably, we were also treated to spin from the Donald Trump apologists-and the anti-anti-Trump contingent-whose outrage is reserved for those who erroneously suggest that Sicknick died from injuries at the MAGA rioters’ hands. The final day of the House January 6th Committee’s summer hearings last week briefly returned the spotlight to one of the human tragedies of the Capitol Hill riot: the death of 42-year-old Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who suffered two strokes in the aftermath of clashes with the crowd and passed away the next day.
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