During a speech at a ceremony honoring more than half a dozen “insurrection” heroes at the White House Friday, President Joe Biden referenced the events of January 6, 2021 - mistakenly referring to July 6, instead - before suggesting that Capitol Hill Officer William “Billy” Evans’ death in April of that same year was somehow linked to “these sick insurrectionists.”
Never mind that Evans was killed by a crazy black Nation of Islam terrorist months after the Capitol riots.
“Three months after January 6 while we were still cordoning off the Capitol because threats by these sick insurrectionists continued to be proflugated (huh?) on the internet…again, all America saw what happened, when Officer Evans was killed defending a checkpoint you had to go through to get ups to the Capitol because of these godawful sick threats continued to move forward. And the whole world saw it,” Biden said.
Joe Biden just said that Capitol Police Officer William Evans died as a result of "threats by these sick insurrectionists."
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 6, 2023
Officers Evans was killed by a black Nation of Islam supporter who rammed him with a car. pic.twitter.com/5FIb6tIOtz
In actuality, Evans died when Noah Green, a 25-year-old Black nationalist and Louis Farrakhan fan, rammed his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol on April 2, 2021, killing Evans and injuring a second officer. His death had nothing whatsoever to do with the so-called “insurrection” (that wasn’t), but those details wouldn't be very convenient to Biden's narrative.
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Then again, perhaps the actual facts are just too slippery to hang on to. After all, Biden also claimed during his remarks that “what happened on July the 6th had international repercussions beyond what I think any of you can fully understand.”
Joe Biden: "The impact - what happened on JULY the 6th had international repercussions beyond what I think any of you can fully understand." pic.twitter.com/znA97P0Q9G
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 6, 2023
If he’s going to hold a partisan anti-Trump bashing session to keep beating his party’s drum about a three-hour riot two years ago as though it were the storming of the Bastille, you’d think he’d at least get the date right. But alas, we can’t hope for miracles.