.Maddowblog: Fmr. President Trump isn't only prepared to tolerate people who engage in political violence. He just showed he's eager to celebrate them.
On Sunday the family and friends of Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was fatally shot by Capitol Police as she tried to break into a hallway with lawmakers on Jan. 6, gathered to mark her birthday and commemorate her life. But the occasion was blessed by a prominent sympathizer: former President Donald Trump, who recorded a personalized video message expressing solidarity with Babbitt and outrage on her behalf.
The Republican added,"There was no reason Ashli should've lost her life that day. We must all demand justice for Ashli and her family, so on this solemn occasion as we celebrate her life, we renew our call for a fair and nonpartisan investigation into the death of Ashli Babbitt." In other words, the official findings don't matter. The witnesses don't matter. The apparent threat Babbitt posed doesn't matter. What matters is a failed former president who believes there's political value in turning a rioter into a martyr.in Babbitt. Some on the political fringe sided with rioters over law enforcement, but the former president did not initially see her story as worthy of celebration.
Reading from a prepared text, Trump added,"The demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol have defiled the seat of American democracy.... To those who engage in the acts of violence and destruction: You do not represent our country, and to those who broke the law: You will pay."the"mob [that] stormed the Capitol and trashed the halls of government.
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