There's now a Brian Sicknick "truth movement" on the right, which suggests Sicknick either died of natural causes or was murdered to tarnish ex-President Trump. Today this new conspiracy theory made its way to National Review. I trace it to its source. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-sicknick-truth-movement-takes-flight-on-the-right/sharetoken/V8RMbob3iKnh

2/ The conspiracy theory seems to originate with a former Trump speech writer, Darren Beattie, who was fired in 2018 after @KFILE unearthed the fact that he'd attended a white nationalist conference in 2016. After Trump lost the November election he appointed Beattie to a ...

3/ commission charged with overseeing Holocaust commemoration.

4/ It got picked up by Tucker Carlson and now Andrew McCarthy has laundered it into a more refined form for NRO. I'm told Glenn Greenwald is pushing it too.

5/ It's basically a new version of the Vince Foster conspiracy theories from going on thirty years ago.

6/ As I explain in my piece it seems possible we’ll never know what specifically led to Sicknick’s death. It’s possible that a kind of freak result occurred in which an injury which should not normally result in death in this case did. Federal investigators are apparently ...

7/ examining when bear spray Insurrectionists sprayed on Sicknick triggered some kind of reaction that led to his death. But this unclarity, while painful for the family, doesn’t really change the story. Sicknick was engaged in a violent confrontation with insurrectionists ...

8/ he returned to his office and then collapsed. It is basically certain that something that occurred during that confrontation led to that. No insurrection and Sicknick is still alive.