The U.S. government is offering military funeral honors for Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was killed at 35 by an officer in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Babbitt was a U.S. Air Force veteran from California who was shot dead wearing a Trump campaign flag wrapped around her shoulders while attempting to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby inside the Capitol.
Offering military honors to one of the Capitol rioters is part of President Donald Trump’s attempts to rewrite that chapter after the 2020 election as a patriotic stand, given he still denies he lost that election. Babbitt has gained martyr status among Republicans, and the Trump administration agreed to pay just under $5 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit that her family filed over her shooting.
Providing military honors to a putschist who was trying to overturn the government as part of Trump's first coup is despicable. The Nazis who died in Hitler's failed putsch also got full honors once his second coup succeeded.
That's the roll that the GOP and the Senile Orange Agent are on, nowadays: Honoring traitors and rewriting history so that treason is patriotic.
Fuck Ashli Babbitt. Fuck her for hearing the warning from the cop and then making him shoot her, something he will live with for the rest of his life. If she was in the goddamn military, she knew what would happen if she ignored the order.
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Makes me ashamed as an Air Force vet. But I have to condemn their actions and Babbit's.
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