I think most courts in the country are going to be biased against Donald Trump in some form or another, but I have to say, this feels like a stretch:
The longtime partner of a Capitol Police officer who died after the Jan. 6 attack sued former President Donald J. Trump and two Capitol rioters on Thursday, arguing that his death was a "direct and foreseeable consequence" of their roles in the mob violence that day.
The suit, filed in Federal District Court for the District of Columbia just before the second anniversary of the attack, seeks at least $10 million in damages each from Mr. Trump and two men accused of assaulting the officer, Brian D. Sicknick, with chemical spray on Jan. 6, George Tanios and Julian Elie Khater. Mr. Khater pleaded guilty in the assault, and Mr. Tanios pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges.
Officer Sicknick did indeed die after the Capitol riot. There is no compelling medical evidence, however, that his death was the result of anything that happened on that day.
It's also extremely important to note that Democrats and the leftist media tried to make Sicknick a martyr to turn public opinion against Trump and conservative voters. A quick online search yields hundreds of in-depth interviews and reports around the story: Most with the direct intent to connect Sicknick's death to Trump.
Officer Sicknick died the day after the attack, but the Washington medical examiner ruled that it was from natural causes — multiple strokes that occurred hours after the mob confrontation — and prosecutors shied away from linking his death to the assault.
In true Washington fashion, however, they really tried hard to make the connection:
But the medical examiner also said that "all that transpired played a role in his condition," and the Capitol Police consider his death a "line of duty" fatality.
Yeah:
If there were any defensible reason for suggesting that his death was caused by the riot, the medical examiner would have officially certified it as such.
