While Monday, January 6, 2025, is a great day for America thanks to the certification of President-Elect Donald Trump's November election victory, it's been a bad day for Democrats, many of whom can't deal with the fact that their undemocratic pushing out of Joe Biden from the presidential race didn't get them the result they wanted.

Predictably, their way of coping, as we saw with an op/ed from President Joe Biden, is to make the events of January 6, 2021, their focal point, a tactic that unsurprisingly is also being utilized by the media.

For instance, there was "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin, who disgracefully compared that day from four years ago to the Holocaust, World War II, and slavery.

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Perhaps the most despicable among them all, however, was Dept. of Justice Attorney General Merrick Garland, who in a press release declared that "five officers ... lost their lives in the line of duty as a result of what happened to them on January 6, 2021":

On this day, four years ago, police officers 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 lost their lives in the line of duty as a result of what happened to them on January 6, 2021.

Merrick Garland just put out a press release claiming 5 officers died in the line of duty as a result of January 6.

How many J6 defendants were charged with manslaughter or murder?

None.

You know why?

Because this is a lie that wouldn't hold up in a courtroom. pic.twitter.com/m6C6VEGRcd

— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) January 6, 2025

It's just gaslighting in the extreme by Garland to make a false statement of such magnitude. 

The five officers he is referring to did not die "in the line of duty" in the sense that the term is widely understood. Four of them committed suicide - two of them (Jeffrey Smith and Howard Liebengood) just days after January 6, 2021, and the other two (Gunther Hashida and Kyle deFreytag) within six months of it.

Officer Brian Sicknick's death, which occurred the day after, was the result of natural causes stemming from a stroke, as the DC medical examiner ruled.

The people who died that day were Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd, two men (Kevin Greeson and Benjamin Philips) who died of natural causes stemming from cardiovascular disease, and Rosanne Boyland, whose official cause of death was an amphetamine overdose though some believe she was crushed by the crowd at the Capitol building.

There are a number of reasons why the deaths of the officers are being referred to as "line of duty" deaths. One is the fact that it's how the Capitol Police describe them:

The USCP accepts the findings from the District of Columbia's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner that Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes. This does not change the fact Officer Sicknick died in the line of duty, courageously defending Congress and the Capitol.

The second reason is thanks to a bill signed into law by Joe Biden that in essence classifies them that way, which allows their survivors to collect benefits. From a 2023 report:

The widow of a police officer who died by suicide after he was assaulted during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been found eligible for a federal benefits program for the families of fallen officers.

Erin Smith, the widow of Jeffrey Smith, was instrumental in the passage of a renewed version of the Public Safety Officer Support Act that President Joe Biden signed into law last August.

The legislation made the families of officers who died by suicide eligible for the federal benefits that go to first responders, so long as their death is found to have been linked to their official duties and exposure to a traumatic event.

Mrs. Smith says she feels a brain injury Officer Smith allegedly suffered on January 6, 2021 "changed him," resulting in him taking his own life.

The third - and main reason - Garland and other Democrats refer to their deaths as "line of duty" deaths is to give people the impression that they were killed at the Capitol Building by Trump supporters, which did not happen, no matter how much Democrats and their allies in the press want to spin it otherwise.

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