Jack Cashill began his July 17 WorldNetDaily column with a factually inaccurate tirade against President Biden which he used as an excuse to tout his book of Capitol riot-whitewashing:
In his rambling, dissembling interview with NBC’s Lester Holt on Monday, President Joe Biden told one shameless lie after another – my favorite, a whopper, his calling the Biden regime “the most successful presidency of any president in modern history.”
What intrigued me most, though, were his comments about Jan. 6, 2021. Sprung from his teleprompter, Biden wandered into dangerous territory.
Specifically, he criticized Trump allegedly for saying, “There’s nothing wrong with going to the Capitol, breaking in, threatening people, a couple cops dying, hanging – put – putting up a noose, a gallows for – done for the vice – the former vice president.”
In my book “Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6,” I was able to deconstruct the “dying cops” saga. Officer Brian Sicknick died of a stroke on Jan. 7 unrelated to the events of the day before.
In arguably the most ghoulish hoax in political history, two “law enforcement officials” told the New York Times that the dead Sicknick had been murdered.
Specifically, “pro-Trump rioters” struck Sicknick with a fire extinguisher. This was no mix-up. The Times added this chillingly fraudulent detail: “With a bloody gash in his head, Mr. Sicknick was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support.”
The worst real injury any officer sustained on Jan. 6 was a concussion. The four other officer deaths attributed to the protesters were suicides, some of them many months later.
Cashill offered no evidence that the initial erroneous claims about Sicknick were a deliberate “hoax.” As we pointed out the last time Cashill tried to decouple officers’ deaths from the riot, a medical examiner ruled that “all that transpired” that day contributed to Sicknick’s stroke-related death — contrary to Cashill’s claim that his death was “unrelated to the events of the day before” — and at least one other officer’s post-riot death was ruled to be in the line of duty. Strange that the conspiracy-minded Cashill is deliberately refusing to see any link between the riot and the later deaths of several officers, which would seem to be too many to be coincidental.
Instead, Cashill directed his conspiratorial efforts to the mystery of the gallows that was erected on the Capitol grounds on the day of the riot. Despite the fact that nobody has been charged in relation to the building of the gallows, he knew who to blame anyway, with the help of a Republican congressman, Barry Loudermilk:
As Loudermilk noted, the construction should have immediately been removed once discovered. These gallows, however, were left untouched by [Capitol Police] officers from 6 a.m. Jan. 6 until later that evening.
“It is inconceivable that a gallows could be constructed on U.S. Capitol property and left up all day,”said Loudermilk. “These men arrived early in the morning, several hours before the rally even started or anyone had gathered, to construct the gallows platform, yet this structure was allowed to stay intact for all to see.”
He added, “These actions raise more serious and troubling questions. Why didn’t the U.S. Capitol Police take down the gallows once it was seen on Capitol property, and why have the individuals never been identified?”
There is an obvious answer to the first question: If the Capitol Police had taken the gallows down, the media and the House J6 committee would not have had those exquisitely framed images of the Capitol dome as seen through the gallows.
In March 2024, CBS News did a feature on the gallows. Amidst the predictable hysteria about the meaning and intent of the gallows, CBS concluded:
“A CBS News review of the charging documents in the approximately 1,300 Jan. 6 federal criminal cases filed by the Justice Department showed no case in which a defendant is accused of playing a role in the gallows construction.”
A real news organization would have pulled the obvious thread on this ball of confusion: Why no cases for such an obvious provocation?
Biden knows why. He frames the gallows question in the passive voice for much the same reason he never mentions the alleged pipe bombs, also discovered about 1 p.m., or Ray Epps, whose crew breached the Capitol perimeter about 1 p.m.
1 p.m. was the witching hour. Biden knows, or at least suspects, that his own allies were involved in all three of these actions.
President Donald Trump threw a wrench in everyone’s plans by starting his speech an hour late. Had Trump started at 11 a.m. as planned, his people would have arrived at the Capitol right about 1 p.m.
The plot wasn’t perfect, but a complicit media allowed the Democrats to make the best of it. Here’s hoping they’ll soon be hoisted by their own petard.
Interesting that Cashill obsesses over this and shows absolutely no concern about why such an unusually large number of law enforcement members died in the wake of the Capitol riot. You’d think that would be easy bait for a rabid conspiracy theorist like Cashill to freak out over.