This chyron from Greenwalds appearance on Fox last night illustrates what yesterday’s high-fiving was all about. Sicknick’s death “was weaponized to portray mob as barbaric & murderous.” As it was from the start with Greenwald and his pals on the right, the controversy over ... 
2/ the modalities of Sicknicks death was a conspiracy to demonize Trumpite insurrectionists, to turn their exuberant 1st amendmentism into something “barbaric and murderous.” For Greenwald the baddies here r some mix of “neoliberalism”, people who won’t admit Hillary Clinton ...
3/ deserved to lose and the vast array of villains who at various points refused to validate and applaud Greenwalds latest hobbyhorse as the most righteous ever. Just why Sicknick died seems likely to remain a permanent mystery. As the Medical Examiner himself suggested ...
4/ it seems highly unlikely that his death wasn’t related in some way to the events of January 6th and his confrontational with insurrectionists and bear spraying. Yet what was likely a searching autopsy failed to find any acute physical injury or any of the signs ...
5/ of a severe allergic reaction to bear spray that would have connected it to his subsequent strokes. For Greenwald and his far right supporters the outrage over Sicknicks death was a collective defamation of the good name of the insurrectionists. Indeed, he even ...
6/ partook of the wild innuendos suggesting Sicknick was cremated to cover up the truth. But in fact the insurrection was ‘barbaric and murderous’ to the extent these words have any meaning. We have videotape of officers being hit over the head with fire extinguishers, being ...
7/ crushed in door passages, being assaulted with flag poles to the point of losing consciousness. The fact of the public outrage over Sicknicks death and the assumption that it was tied to one of these numerous assaults wasn’t some wild leap and contra Greenwald and Co ...
8/ it wasn’t yet another attempt to defame Trump and his supporters or some ingenious attempt to yet again question Greenwalds righteous decision to ally with himself with Assange, Russia and Harlan Hill. Initial claims from sources in the cap police that Sicknick had been ...
9/ hit over the head were clearly wrong. But since that had in fact happened to another officer it’s a pretty standard and unsurprising fog of war confusion. It was also one that was corrected within days of his death. The fact that an autopsy could not find a clinically ...
10/ definable injury leading to his stroke goes down as one of the mysteries of the whole broader story. But it doesn’t change that story. It’s not a triumph for Trump. It’s not an indictment of “the fake news”. And it doesn’t change the reality of what happened on Jan 6th,
11/ as much as Greenwald and the rest of the insurrection revisionists would like it to.
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