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riversedge

(77,790 posts) Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:24 PM Aug 28

Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt offered full military funeral, Air Force confirms

This is horrible.

Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt offered full military funeral, Air Force confirms
Babbitt, 35, was an Air Force veteran who was fatally shot by Capitol police while protesting Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jan-6-rioter-ashli-babbitt-offered-full-military-funeral-air-force-con-rcna227815?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Aug. 28, 2025, 2:16 PM CDT
By Mosheh Gains and David K. Li

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..................................

"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.

The conservative legal group Judicial Watch had long been pushing for Babbitt to receive full military funeral honors and pushed the narrative that she was a victim of government misconduct............................

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A picture of Ashli Babbitt hangs near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2022.John Lamparski / NurPhoto via AP file

LanaQuest aka RosaSparks
@LqLana
So dead Ashli Babbitt is now going to receive a full U.S. Air Force funeral for breaking into the Capitol and trying to attack lawmakers all in an effort to overthrow an election.

Donald Trump has made America a shit hole country that rewards assholes, racists, pedophiles, and bigots. #DemsUnited

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Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt offered full military funeral, Air Force confirms (Original Post) riversedge Aug 28 OP

Is there any doubt that the coup has been successful by the rat republicans? Bread and Circuses Aug 28 #1

It's long past that moment. BOSSHOG Aug 28 #2

Dangerous Newark65 Aug 28 #3

Yes this tells me that the military will do ANYthing that Trump tells them to do--even spit on the Constitution riversedge Aug 28 #4

While she doesn't deserve it, apparently she does meet requirements. Personally, I'll just ignore it and let Silent Type Aug 28 #5

It will just embolden them dhol82 Aug 28 #6

If she had gotten in there were have been congressional fatalities. kimbutgar Aug 28 #7

This makes me feel sick Lulu KC Aug 28 #8

Will Trump force Arlington National Cemetery to accept her burial there? Norrrm Aug 28 #9

Whiskey Pete and Krasnov shit on our military once more Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 29 #10

MaddowBlog-Why the scheduled military funeral for Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt is indefensible LetMyPeopleVote Aug 29 #11

Bread and Circuses

(1,154 posts)

1. Is there any doubt that the coup has been successful by the rat republicans?

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:28 PM

Aug 28

Treason is celebrated.

Violence is a rewarded.

They will kill us, and nothing will stop them.

BOSSHOG

(43,673 posts)

2. It's long past that moment.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:31 PM

Aug 28

At long last Donald trump have you no decency?

Newark65

(30 posts)

3. Dangerous

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:33 PM

Aug 28

This says to me the Air Force has turned its back on the Constitution.

riversedge

(77,790 posts)

4. Yes this tells me that the military will do ANYthing that Trump tells them to do--even spit on the Constitution

Reply to Newark65 (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:38 PM

Aug 28

Silent Type

(11,136 posts)

5. While she doesn't deserve it, apparently she does meet requirements. Personally, I'll just ignore it and let

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:39 PM

Aug 28

the cretins have their ceremony. Hope they all get Covid or something.

dhol82

(9,608 posts)

6. It will just embolden them

Reply to Silent Type (Reply #5)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:42 PM

Aug 28

kimbutgar

(26,033 posts)

7. If she had gotten in there were have been congressional fatalities.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 09:14 PM

Aug 28

History will not be kind to her memory for being an insurrectionist traitor who defiled the Air Force by her actions.

Lulu KC

(8,228 posts)

8. This makes me feel sick

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 09:55 PM

Aug 28

Truly ill. How? How can this be justified? (Rhetorical question asked in bewilderment.)

Norrrm

(2,985 posts)

9. Will Trump force Arlington National Cemetery to accept her burial there?

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:28 PM

Aug 28

Will Trump force Arlington National Cemetery to accept her burial there?

Vance was a Marine.
Would he proudly attend and accept such an action?
I am sure he would.

https://meidasnews.com/news/arlington-national-cemetery-turns-away-ashli-babbitt-memorial-stone-truck

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(128,710 posts)

10. Whiskey Pete and Krasnov shit on our military once more

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:38 PM

Aug 29

LetMyPeopleVote

(169,845 posts)

11. MaddowBlog-Why the scheduled military funeral for Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt is indefensible

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 06:40 PM

Aug 29

U.S. military funerals are traditionally reserved for actual heroes, not insurrectionists who attacked their own country’s capitol.

Why the scheduled military funeral for Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt is indefensible - MSNBC

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/scheduled-military-funeral-jan-6-rioter-ashli-babbitt-indefensible-rcna228089

It was a few months ago when Donald Trump’s Justice Department reached a settlement with the family of Ashli Babbitt, the Jan. 6 rioter who was fatally shot by a police officer during the attack on the U.S. Capitol. As part of the agreement, the Republican administration announced plans to give roughly $5 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Babbitt’s relatives.

While this was impossible to defend given the weakness of the case — Thomas Manger, the outgoing chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, condemned the payment in no uncertain terms — it apparently was just part of a larger effort. As my MSNBC colleague Ja’han Jones explained:

The U.S. Air Force is planning to offer an official military funeral for deceased insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt, who was shot during the attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to documents released by a conservative nonprofit.

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a war veteran who’s now estranged from the Republican Party, said in response to the news: “While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.”.....

But in June 2021, Trump said that he saw Babbitt as an ally who was on his “side.” A month later, he said the rioter was “innocent.” A month after that, he accused the officer who shot her of being a “murderer.” In 2023, Trump condemned the cop as a “thug” and a “coward” who deserved to be vilified, and earlier this year, he inexplicably claimed that Babbitt was “shot for no reason whatsoever.”

Two months later, Trump claimed that Babbitt “was innocently standing there” and had possibly even tried to help law enforcement by “trying to sort of hold back the crowd” when she was shot.

It was as odious a lie as the president has ever told.

Nevertheless, it’s against this backdrop that his administration isn’t just giving Babbitt’s family millions of dollars, it’s also giving Babbitt a military funeral — traditionally reserved for actual heroes, not insurrectionists who attacked their own country’s capitol.

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