A Capitol Police officer dies from injuries sustained during the pro-Trump rampage.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-capitol-police-officer-dies-from-injuries-sustained-during-the-pro-trump-rampage/ar-BB1czuid?ocid=msedgntpA United States Capitol Police officer died Thursday night from injuries sustained when he engaged with a pro-Trump mob that descended on the U.S. Capitol the day before.
Officer Brian D. Sicknick died at about 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, the Capitol Police said in a statement. He had been with the agency since 2008.
Mr. Sicknick was responding to the riots on Wednesday and “was injured while physically engaging with protesters,” the agency’s statement said, although officials didn’t immediately elaborate on the nature of his injuries or how he interacted with the crowd. After sustaining the injuries, Mr. Sicknick returned to his division office, collapsed, and was taken to the hospital.
This is about the worst possible news Trump could receive. Yes, I know, the true Trump supporters will explain this away by saying the Pro-Trump mob was infiltrated by leftist who wanted to discredit him. One of them must have committed the lethal assault. We probably have one or two, may three such people one this forum alone. But it is important to know that not everyone who voted for Trump is a true Trump believer. Some thought he was a bit a of jerk, a big liar, but they thought he was better than Clinton so they voted for him anyway. By November enough of them had soured on him to cause him to lose the election. His trying to overturn the election has turned off even more people, people who voted for him in both 2016 and 2020. That is why those two Republican candidates in Georgia lost on Tuesday. Trump supported them and they supported Trump, and his efforts to steal the election. So, some voters punished them.
It is important to remember that the disastrous Georgia election on January 5 happened:
• Before Trump unleased the “Be there . . . It will be wild” mob he had summoned to go to the Capitol.
• Before that same mob broke into the Capitol and caused all of congress to flee and barely get away.
• Before a Capitol Police Officer died of his injuries.
Words matter. Words have a big on people’s lives. And on ending people’s lives.
How would a senator fare in an election held today if Trump backed him and he backed Trump and his efforts to overturn the election? No good.
Now the riot that Trump clearly set off on purpose in the Capitol, combined with the death of an officer defending the Capitol, defending the Senators and Congressmen, defending the Electoral Count, defending the Constitution and our way of governing, is going to cause the bottom to drop out. You just wait. You will see in November of 2022.
Even the Republican Senators started get the picture. They were going to object to 6 states, and objected to Arizona, then the riot occurred, reconvened after the riot and when on to object to another, Pennsylvania. But, after given a couple of hours to think what the implications of the Georgia vote may be, what the implications of the riot may be, they didn’t object again. And now, after that, a Capitol Police Officer died of his injuries.
In the immediate aftermath, Congress may decide they have to impeach him. He may have influence over the Republican party, by I think that will be totally gone after November 2022. His influence dies if his support causes Republicans to lose in November.
