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The brothers of deceased Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick revealed Friday that after their brother’s death, many lawmakers, including former Vice President Mike Pence, contacted them and expressed their condolences. Donald Trump, however, did not.
“Not one tweet, not one note, not one card — nothing from him, because he knows. He knows he is the cause of the whole thing,” Ken Sicknick told CNN’s John Berman on Friday. Craig Sicknick added, “Not even a postcard.”
The pair attended Thursday night’s Jan. 6 committee hearing, at which Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards testified that she saw her colleague “ghostly pale” with his head in his hands at one point during the riot. Sicknick suffered two strokes and died of natural causes the day after he engaged Trump supporters who sprayed him with a chemical irritant on the perimeter of the Capitol.
During the interview, Ken Sicknick addressed those who have callously downplayed the significance of Jan. 6, and of the committee hearings themselves.
“Honestly I dopay attention to some of theconversations, rhetoric,whatever you want to call it outthere, you know, pertaining to … the January 6thcommittee investigating the insurrection — that, you know, it was a tourist attraction, everybody was singingkumbaya with each other,” Sicknick said, referencing people like GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), who compared the insurrection to a “normal tourist visit.” (A Republican National Committee resolution from February also dubbed the violent and illegal events of that day as “legitimate political discourse,” after first wanting to pass it off, shockingly, as “nonviolent and legal.”)
“I actually saw a lotof people saying, ‘Well, I’m notgoing to watch it. It’s a dogand pony show,’” he added of those who have bought into conservative propaganda about the attack. “That’s just them being ignorant.They really need to see whatactually happened that day.”
The two brothers recalled how Edwards “told us what a hero Brian was.” Edwards said that “while she was going throughthe ordeal she was goingthrough, Brian was right therewith her … Whenever there wasa breach in the line, Brian wasfilling that breach,” Ken Sicknick said. “It’sreassuring to know he was ahero. I just wish he was stillhere.”
Berman, after mentioning how Brian Sicknick’s partner has said that justice for the couple would be “having Donald Trump in prison,” asked the pair if they agreed. “That’s the least thatcould happen — would be him beingthrown in prison,” Ken Sicknick replied. “That night while he was laughingand, you know, cheering on thecrowds, you know, he still — hestill would wake up in themorning and be able to see hisfamily.”
“Donald Trump has never paidthe price for anything he hasdone his entire life,” his brother added. “Anymistake he’s made, it’s all beenswept under the carpet, it’s allbeen made to go away.Let’s see if it happens again orif there is actually justiceserved.”
