TRUMP’S BIRTHDAY EULOGY FOR A DOMESTIC TERRORIST

Fresno CA

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On January 6, 2021, committed conspiracy theorist Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by Police Officer Michael Byrd, as she tried to force her way through the glass doors that separated a mob of violent seditionists from dozens of members of congress and their staffs hunkering down amidst the chaos of a full blown insurrection against the United States government. In the months since then, the increasingly dominant proto-fascist wing of the post-Donald Trump Republican Party has frantically tried to reframe Babbitt as a patriotic martyr who was unjustly killed for a righteous cause, rather than a reality-adverse insurrectionist whose death resulted from her wholehearted belief in an unhinged political fantasy of “stolen elections” and “crimes of the century” promulgated by Trump and his enablers. That effort at post-mortem beatification reached its crescendo this past weekend, with Trump himself recording a personalized message for Babbitt, which aired at a “Texas Loves Ashli Babbitt” political rally in Texas for what would have been her 36th birthday. “That horrible day of January 6, Ashli arrived at the U.S. Capitol. She was shot and tragically killed,” Trump exclaimed, adding that there “was no reason Ashli should have lost her life that day,” while calling for a new Justice Department investigation into her death. “Her memory will live on in our hearts for all time,” Trump said in his most explicit — but not his first — embrace of Babbitt’s position as a conservative icon for a cult of personality build around his own refusal to acknowledge his electoral loss in 2020. Read more: https://www.mic.com/impact/trumps-birthday-eulogy-for-a-domestic-terrorist-was-a-glimpse-into-his-2024-run