"The story can be released now because the narrative has run its course and served its purpose. In half the country’s mind, this officer was, and forever, killed by Trumpsters. Any mention of the truth will now be conspiracy. Nobody will read the retraction printed on page 22. Only a few will now will care and these deplorables have already been written off."

That is right, Ben Lurkin. Call me a masochist but I watch the ABC Evening News every night at 6:30
Day after day, and week after week they said "Officer Sicknick was murdered by Trump supporters." Three days after the death, they had his ashes lying in a state of honor with a Marine bodyguard in the rotunda of the Captiol, and ABC talked about how he was murdered.

They pounded that into the heads of the masses long enough that, at least all the Libs believe it. Now that it is "old news" they can let the truth slip out, and the true story did not make ABC News last night.