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The New York Times Retracts the Sicknick Story
American Greatness ^ | February 14, 2021 | Julie Kelly

Posted on 02/14/2021 5:12:24 PM PST by Yo-Yo

In a quiet but stunning correction, the New York Times backed away from its original report that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by a Trump supporter wielding a fire extinguisher during the January 6 melee at the Capitol building. Shortly after American Greatness published my column Friday that showed how the Times gradually was backpedaling on its January 8 bombshell, the paper posted this caveat:

UPDATE: New information has emerged regarding the death of the Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick that questions the initial cause of his death provided by officials close to the Capitol Police.

The paper continued to revise its story within the body of the original January 8 story: “Law enforcement officials initially said Mr. Sicknick was struck with a fire extinguisher, but weeks later, police sources and investigators were at odds over whether he was hit. Medical experts have said he did not die of blunt force trauma, according to one law enforcement official.”

What’s missing, however, is how the Times first described what happened to Sicknick. “Mr. Sicknick, 42, an officer for the Capitol Police, died on Thursday from brain injuries he sustained after Trump loyalists who overtook the complex struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher, according to two law enforcement officials.”

The account of Sicknick’s death was reported as fact, not speculation or rumor. Further, it appears that the anonymous sources were not law enforcement officials but people “close” to the police department—which means they could have been anyone from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to inveterate liar U.S. Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to the Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser.

Not only was the Times’ untrue story about Sicknick’s death accepted as fact by every news media organization from the Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post, political pundits on the NeverTrump Right also regurgitated the narrative that Sicknick was “murdered” as did lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

In an outrageous effort to create more favorable optics before the impeachment trial, House Democrats honored Sicknick in a rare memorial at the Capitol Rotunda on February 3. Joe Biden, in a statement issued after Donald Trump was acquitted Saturday afternoon, repeated the lie about Sicknick. “It was nearly two weeks ago that Jill and I paid our respects to Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who laid in honor in the Rotunda after losing his life protecting the Capitol from a riotous, violent mob on January 6, 2021.”

The Times’ correction might be one reason why Democrats on Saturday reversed their demand to subpoena witnesses. House impeachment managers cited the original January 8 Times’ article as evidence in their impeachment memo: “The insurrectionists killed a Capitol Police officer by striking him in the head with a fire extinguisher.”

Any arrangement to compel testimony would have provided Trump’s legal team with an opportunity to expose yet another myth in the Democrats’ “incitement” case against the former president.

Now that the Times has essentially retracted its explosive article, will other news organizations, pundits, and lawmakers follow suit? Unfortunately, like so many media-manufactured stories about Donald Trump and his supporters, millions of Americans already believe the Sicknick story as truth; even a Times’ correction won’t change their minds.

The truth in all matters related to Donald Trump is only of secondary concern, if at all. And once again, reporters who egregiously exploited a man’s untimely death to score political points against a man they revile won’t be held accountable. Another hoax down the memory hole.


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: democratcoupplot; fireextinguisher; hoax; impeachment; leftwingnuts; nyt; nytimes; oops; retraction; shampeachment; sicknick; sidnick; times; trumpacquittal
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For those who can get past the paywall, here is a link to the corrected New York Times story:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/brian-sicknick-police-capitol-dies.html

1 posted on 02/14/2021 5:12:24 PM PST by Yo-Yo
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To: Yo-Yo

later


2 posted on 02/14/2021 5:14:20 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Yo-Yo

https://wentworthreport.com/2021/02/12/everything-wrong-with-the-capitol-shooting-in-21-minutes-or-less/


3 posted on 02/14/2021 5:19:14 PM PST by Maudeen (A question to answer, "Will my name be written in the Lamb's Book of Life?" Revelation 20:15)
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To: Yo-Yo

Some retraction, weeks after the agenda had been set, one day after the story was used to bolster a second impeachment. Mission Accomplished.


4 posted on 02/14/2021 5:19:56 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Yo-Yo
The New York Times Retracts the Sicknick Story

That's understandable, after all the NYT Fact Checkers all work out of their mother's basements and wear these Tee shirts:


5 posted on 02/14/2021 5:22:35 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Yo-Yo
Good for the New York Times.

Now, let them cover the rest of the deaths, including Ashli Babbitt's death.

I think that none of the people who died were murdered by the MAGA crowd.

6 posted on 02/14/2021 5:24:05 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: Yo-Yo

So what

Damage was doe

It did its purpose

Now they can claim o apear like they actuall care about truth

Its all bs


7 posted on 02/14/2021 5:29:50 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Yo-Yo
Good to see the NYTs retraction.

It may be used to convince a few more of the lies of the left, especially of the NYTs.

This was reported by several outlets earlier.

8 posted on 02/14/2021 5:31:41 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: Yo-Yo

h/t Revolver.news and The National Pulse


9 posted on 02/14/2021 5:32:13 PM PST by dontreadthis
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To: Yo-Yo

NYT was more than happy to print a false story from “an official close”

Fake news is fake. Hugely.


10 posted on 02/14/2021 5:32:26 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: TChad
I think that none of the people who died were murdered by the MAGA crowd.

All of those who died were supporters of President Trump.

11 posted on 02/14/2021 5:32:27 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: marktwain
All of those who died were supporters of President Trump.

AFAIK that is true.

12 posted on 02/14/2021 5:36:55 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Felix!

Somehow I just knew he was there at the NYT!


13 posted on 02/14/2021 5:37:40 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Yo-Yo

Corrected the day after the impeachment trial farce.

Just like vaccine approval the day after the election.

Just like suppression of the Hunter Biden scandal.

All convenient for the left.


14 posted on 02/14/2021 5:43:06 PM PST by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Shut the deuce up!!! I'll do the fighting!!!)
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To: Yo-Yo

Freaking simulation, its al narrative all the time only the facts are changed to convict the innocent.


15 posted on 02/14/2021 5:49:23 PM PST by Bayard
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To: Yo-Yo

Shakespeare was wrong. First, it should be the journalists.


16 posted on 02/14/2021 6:18:36 PM PST by MountainWalker
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To: TChad

Good for the NY Times? They lied about it. They made it up to try to get Trump. They also made up and falsified evidence in his trial. I still want to see proof of Ashli being murdered. Until they release the autopsy, funeral announcement or interview her “paramedics, I don’t believe it. It was used as the excuse to erect the fence. Antifa we were told were not behind it, but Jaden X filmed it, and the acting was pretty piss poor. I noticed that the FBI doesn’t seem interested in finding these individuals, outside of Jaden. The whole operation was an ANTIFA false flag! Convince me I wrong?


17 posted on 02/14/2021 6:28:39 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (Sarcasm. It's my only natural defense against stupidity!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

There’s a reason why their “mistakes” (lies) always go in one direction. The media is ripping the country apart peddling propaganda for the sole purpose of installing a permanently entrenched communist government. And, it’s working.

There will never be any such thing as democracy in this country until these lying scumbags are dealt with. I’m ready for our Pinochet.


18 posted on 02/14/2021 6:31:44 PM PST by MountainWalker
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To: MountainWalker

Well you better be ready to do that to a whole bunch of women, because media is swamped with them

To me gender and age doesnt come into the equation when dealing with socialists


19 posted on 02/14/2021 6:34:18 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I agree. Couldn’t care less.


20 posted on 02/14/2021 6:43:06 PM PST by MountainWalker
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