The answer is by using the Big Lie. That's what Merrick Garland did today, right before Congress certified Trump's election:
On this day, four years ago, coppers were brutally assaulted while bravely defending the United States Capitol. They were punched, tackled, tased, and attacked with chemical agents that burned their eyes and skin. Today, I am thinking of the officers who still bear the scars of that day as well as the loved ones of the five officers who bit the dust in the line of duty as a result of what happened to them on January 6, 2021.
In fact, not a single Capitol Police officer died as a direct result of events on January 6. You only have to look at how carefully Garland phrased that emphasized sentence to understand how dishonest it is to say that they ''bit the dust in the line of duty as a result of what happened to them on January 6, 2021.''
Officer Brian Sicknick died of a stroke following January 6. The first lie that the media promulgated was that he died from blunt-force trauma. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
even the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
was forced to admit that this claim was untrue.
There's also no evidence that, while Sicknick may have gotten some chemicals in his eyes, those chemicals caused him to have a stroke. After all, strokes are not a known side effect of bear spray. More importantly, the D.C. Medical Examiner conceded that Sicknick died of natural causes (a concession that finally came out after officials sat on the autopsy report long enough for the fake narrative to take hold).
But what about the other four officers? They did away with themselves. This act bespeaks mental health problems, and those are usually something long-standing, not something related to the events of a few hours.
Take the story of Jeffrey Smith. According to his wife, he said he was afraid that he was going to die on January 6. Given that fear, why would he kill himself just eight days later? It's true that he was struck on the helmet and got some pain pills. His wife said he was in constant pain after that—but again, people live with constant pain for years, with only some taking their lives. But eight days? Really?
The actual story behind Smith's and other officers' suicides is this: ''The families of Liebengood and Smith both sought to have them recognized as 'line of duty' deaths, which would afford their families enhanced benefits.'' It's all about the money.
Garland is a vile little weasel, except that weasels are cute and clever, while Garland is just a crude, mafioso-style enforcer. If I were Pam Bondi, I'd fumigate the office he used before occupying it.
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