Lame-duck President Joe Biden authored an op-ed for the anniversary of the January 6, 2021 protests—or had someone write one in his name—but almost nobody has taken any notice of it. Published in The Washington Post, the article insists that January 6 was not “a protest that just got out of hand” and repeats the lie that “Some police officers ultimately died as a result” of injuries sustained on the day.
In fact, while Officer Brian Sicknick died of a stroke the day after January 6, claims by law enforcement that he had been hit with a fire extinguisher turned out to be false, and he actually died of “natural causes.” The only other police fatalities that some have attempted to connect to January 6 were suicides.
Two protestors died of heart attacks on the day of the attack, and Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt was shot dead by Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd, a known liar, despite being unarmed.
Biden insisted Americans “should commit to remembering Jan. 6, 2021, every year… as a day when our democracy was put to the test and prevailed.”
Even anti-Trump former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst Martin Gurri has argued January 6 was not a coup attempt, noting that “[i]n an insurgency, people with guns shoot at each other and lots of them die,” and there’s “no such thing as an unarmed insurgency.”
American conservatives being the most heavily armed civilians in the world, the fact there was no such gunfighting on January 6 strongly indicates that protestors did not attend the Capitol with an earnest attempt to overthrow the government in mind.
