WATCH: Glenn Greenwald and Tucker Carlson say mainstream media lied ‘on purpose’ about Officer Sicknick’s death

This was the story Americans were told by Democrat leaders, legislators, and by mainstream media. The only problem is that on Monday, Washington, DC officials revealed that Sicknick died not from assault, but because he suffered a stroke.

Glenn Greenwald discussed this revelation, and mainstream media's lies, with Tucker Carlson on Monday night.

Carlson began by discussing the original story surrounding Sicknick's death. Beginning with The New York Times, and later disseminated by other media outlets, it was claimed that Sicknick died as a result of injuries sustained during the riot by pro-Trump protesters on Capitol Hill on Jan 6. In particular, it was claimed that Sicknick died after being bludgeoned by a Trump supporter armed with a fire extinguisher.

"We took that at face value, mostly because we didn't have a choice," Carlson said, noting that "Congress has exempted the US Capitol Police from the usual transparency laws. If a police department shoots somebody, they have to tell you the name of the officer, that's the law in most places, but Congress has exempted their own police force from that."

Carlson also noted that Capitol Police are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. He then played multiple clips from various media outlets where the story of Sicknick being beaten with a fire extinguisher was disseminated as fact, including one analysis from MSNBC accusing President Trump of being criminally responsible for his "murder."

"So now it's more than three months after the event and we finally have some facts. Washington DC's chief medical examiner has announced that Brian Sicknick, in fact, died of natural causes," Carlson said, repeating the examiner's conclusion that he suffered two strokes. Carlson further noted that there is "no evidence that he suffered any internal or external injuries."

"I think [the media] lied on purpose," Glenn Greenwald said. "And I say that because it was vital to be able to claim that a pro-Trump mob on Jan 6 murdered somebody, because without that being true, it would mean that all the people who died that day were pro-Trump protesters... It's very difficult to depict this protest as this menacing insurrection if they actually killed nobody and they themselves were killed."

Greenwald explained how consequential this claim became, pointing out that it was even referenced in former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.

"There were so many reasons from the start to know it was a lie, there were journalists... who were saying there's no evidence for it, there's evidence to believe it wasn't true," Greenwald said. "The original autopsy found no blunt trauma. His family said that he called them that night to say he was totally fine. His mother said that she thought he died of a stroke.

"This is what is so repulsive is that they completely exploited this person," Greenwald alleged, "for purely political ends that ways we now know were a complete and utter lie."

When asked how the media responds to the fact that they disseminated false information, Greenwald said that "they ignore it."

"This is 48 hours after their entire two month long claim about Russia paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers completely fell apart too when the government admitted that there was very little evidence for it. None of them went on the air and accounted for how they got it wrong."

Greenwald finished by suggesting that it is ironic that many of the media outlets which regularly spread misinformation such as the Brian Sicknick story are the ones who call for ordinary citizens to be censored for spreading "disinformation" on social media.