Insurrectionists are being rewarded in death as well as life.
The Air Force has offered full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was fatally shot by police as she stormed the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot four years ago, officials said Thursday.
Babbitt, 35, was an Air Force veteran who went to Washington to protest Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election, her family has said, and was among the rioters seeking to break into the House chamber. And as Babbitt tried to climb through a broken window of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby, U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd fired one shot, killing her. Although Byrd was cleared of wrongdoing by the Justice Department and Capitol Police, Babbitt’s death has remained a right-wing rallying cry that has cast her as a martyr.
“After reviewing the circumstances of SrA Babbitt’s death, the Air Force has offered Military Funeral Honors to SrA Babbitt’s family,” an Air Force spokesperson said.
In case you’ve forgotten, this is Ashli Babit:
Babbitt was a prolific social media user who embraced conspiracy theories. She believed in “pizzagate,” a viral disinformation campaign that falsely alleged that a child abuse ring was being operated by Democrats from a Washington pizza restaurant, and embraced QAnon, the convoluted conspiracy movement baselessly claiming — among other things — that Trump was secretly fighting an international cabal of criminals and pedophiles.
A true Trumper through and through. By the way, her mother filed wrongful death suit which Trump settled for five million dollars. Sweet.
Does anyone think that Trump won’t end up getting that Nobel Prize? I think it’s 50/50.