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Brother of Capitol police officer who died after the January 6 riot says Trump riled up his 'sycophants' at Ellipse rally
Yahoo ^ | July 23, 2022 | John L. Dorman

Posted on 07/23/2022 7:50:39 PM PDT by lowbridge

During an interview on CNN's "New Day," Ken Sicknick — the brother of the late officer Brian D. Sicknick — told reporter Kaitlan Collins of his frustrations with the revelations from Thursday's January 6 committee hearing.

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The question remains of what Trump was doing for the more than three hours between 1:10 p.m., when the then-president was ending his remarks at the Ellipse

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"We are focusing on the fact that he just didn't act at all for three hours, which is just absolutely ridiculous," Ken Sicknick said on CNN. "For the first time in a long time, I'm angry from seeing it again and realizing that he did nothing."

He continued: "Overall, we should be focused on the fact that he started this whole thing to begin with. So yeah, he's at fault for not stopping it, but he's really at fault for riling up the crowds and getting his sycophants following whatever word he said. I'd like to focus on the fact that he's responsible for it happening in the first place.

"Ken Sicknick then called out Trump what he said was the former president's lack of concern about the country.

"It's obvious to me that his existence in the White House had nothing to do with helping the country, had nothing to do with looking out for the best interest of the country," he said.

"The silence of the three hours? It could have been him stuck, deciding whether to say something. But ultimately it was him covering his rear end and him making sure that he was in power and that he could not admit to anything happening and I can't comprehend him not doing a thing to stop that. He knew what was going on minutes after his little rally," he added.

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KEYWORDS: absoluteabsurdity; bovinepoop; capitol; codswallop; dicksicknick; echochamber; groupthink; jan6; january6; kensicknick
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To: lowbridge

SOB doesn’t know what “riled up” means.

If it had been an insurrection by the good people of the US, there’d be hundreds, if not thousands of bodies at the capital, including some key democRATS.


21 posted on 07/23/2022 8:21:09 PM PDT by meyer (Everything woke turns to poo.)
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To: Observator

You’re a Democrat troll. Screw off.


22 posted on 07/23/2022 8:22:31 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Observator
I need to breach this building!! Quick! Hand me an officer who will open the magnetically locked doors from the inside and then will hold the doors open for me and wave me in! Because that's what "breaching" a building means!

There is no good justification where a President sits around watching TV for hours as the Capitol is breached.

23 posted on 07/23/2022 8:23:43 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: ecomcon
After all, The Capitol is like the Holy of Holies and all.

Not really. Every corporation of America is closed to the general public, same as schools. You can't just bust into any guarded building wearing face paint and a headdress and then be like "What's the big deal?!?"
24 posted on 07/23/2022 8:23:43 PM PDT by Observator
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To: lowbridge

Maybe he just gets a pass on this issue. That was his brother, so of course, he’s going to have his own conclusions on what happened and why. I respect his grief, but I don’t need him to agree with me that the J-6 event had been infiltrated by Antifa and CIA types. If he ever admits this, he is not ready right now.
So be it.


25 posted on 07/23/2022 8:24:52 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Williams

I posted on Freerepublic in late December 2020 that it was a bad idea to hold a Trump rally in DC on January 6. I noted: 1) DC is Dem city where conservative rallyers couldn’t be assured of protection; 2) every previous Trump rally in DC had incurred violence from leftist thugs; 3) any violence that happened would be blamed on MAGA; 4) even if it wentboff without a hitch, the rally would be used by the media for distraction, so they could cover the rally instead of the congressional debate on the election’s process.

If I could forese all of this, why couldn’t Trump?

Bottom line: he was reckless and selfish to hold that rally in adC. He put his followers at risk. And he undermined his own cause by distracting from the planned presentations in Congress.

This was terrible judgment by Trump, and many of his followers have had their lives ruined because they answered his dumb call to come to a heavily Democratic stronghold on Jan 6


26 posted on 07/23/2022 8:28:03 PM PDT by rintintin (Desantis has a duty to run for president in 2024. We need a competent leader to fight the left)
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To: coloradan
Quick! Hand me an officer who will open the magnetically locked doors from the inside and then will hold the doors open for me and wave me in!

There's an explanation for everything on 1/6 apparently, and coincidentally they all end the same - with Donald Trump as the unfortunate and misunderstood victim suffering alone, tragically if not triumphantly, beneath the cruel lashes of the Deep State, the media, the courts, the police, the judiciary, Republicans, Democrats and his former appointees.
27 posted on 07/23/2022 8:31:08 PM PDT by Observator
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Trump should never have held a rally in Dem-heavy DC on Jan 6. He put his supporters at risk. And there was nothing to gain.


28 posted on 07/23/2022 8:31:25 PM PDT by rintintin (Desantis has a duty to run for president in 2024. We need a competent leader to fight the left)
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To: lowbridge

Any of you fellow News Hounds remember Cindy Sheehan, the Gold Star Mom who protested President George Bush?
She stayed on his case for years and years.
Then, suddenly, she was not needed by the progessives anymore. She just sort of disappeared from all the news cycles.


29 posted on 07/23/2022 8:34:26 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: rintintin

I essentially agree with your analysis.


30 posted on 07/23/2022 8:35:09 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Skywise

Ken is disgacing his family, including Brian, by spouting such vehement pabulum.


31 posted on 07/23/2022 8:36:12 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: Observator

The Secret Service took the wheel out of Trump’s hand so he couldn’t drive over to the Capitol to help Nanzi defend the House.


32 posted on 07/23/2022 8:36:15 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: lee martell

Cindy Sheehan was dumped by the progressives when she protested Obama. He was continuing Bush’s wars, and starting new ones. She was consistent. Just as she had protested unjustified wars under Bush, she also protested them under his Democrat successor. And the Democrats dropped her because of it.


33 posted on 07/23/2022 8:42:02 PM PDT by rintintin (Desantis has a duty to run for president in 2024. We need a competent leader to fight the left)
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STFU, Ken


34 posted on 07/23/2022 8:42:46 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Observator; 2ndDivisionVet; 50mm; Arrowhead1952; Old Sarge; shibumi; .44 Special; 230FMJ; ...
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"There is no good justification where a President [Trump] sits around watching TV for hours as the Capitol is breached."











35 posted on 07/23/2022 8:46:54 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Observator

https://twitter.com/i/status/1347596278583197698

“Police open doors for protestors, stand aside, and hold a door open for them.”


36 posted on 07/23/2022 8:47:17 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: lowbridge

Nice try, Ken Sicko, but it was the FBI instigators that riled up a bunch of MAGA wearing BLM and Antifa infiltrators.


37 posted on 07/23/2022 8:47:32 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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To: lowbridge

Hey Ken, Trump tried to grab the steering wheel and drive the Suburban over to the capitol to calm everyone down but they told him he couldn’t go there. Sheesh.


38 posted on 07/23/2022 8:51:08 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: lee martell

I remember her camping out next to Bush’s ranch for a long time..


39 posted on 07/23/2022 8:52:48 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Observator

You can’t just bust into any guarded building wearing face paint and a headdress and then be like “What’s the big deal?!?”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..
Yeah, those naughty trespassers! Perhaps they should have simply followed the example of Antifa, BLM, and other Communist thugs in Portland and elsewhere and set fires and demolished all of Capitol Hill. Yeah, that would have been much more civilized than entering the Capital while security personnel stood around watching them! You’re a moron. Go away.


40 posted on 07/23/2022 8:54:13 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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