Trump guarantees to ‘look into’ Ashli Babbitt’s capturing loss of life on January 6 | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump has pledged to take a “look into” whether or not the federal government ought to attain a settlement with the household of Ashli Babbit, the January 6 insurrectionist who was shot lifeless by a police officer as she tried to enter the U.S. Capitol.

The president has repeatedly praised his supporters who tried to overturn his 2020 election loss to former President Joe Biden, together with Babbitt. The 35-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran, who sported a Trump flag as a cape, was fatally shot whereas climbing by means of a damaged door barricaded by officers as they tried to evacuate dozens of Congress members.

Last Janaury, Babbitt’s household filed a $30 million wrongful loss of life go well with in opposition to the U.S. authorities.

Trump, who in January granted clemency to 1,500 supporters charged with crimes related to the January 6, 2021 assault, advised Newsmax’s Greg Kelly on Tuesday that he’ll study whether or not the Department of Justice ought to settle the case.

Kelly advised Trump that the federal government is “still kind of fighting that case” and that the DOJ “is opposing that lawsuit.”

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“You’re telling me that for the first time. I haven’t heard that,” Trump responded.

“I’m a big fan of Ashli Babbitt okay, and Ashli Babbitt was a really good person who was a big MAGA fan, Trump fan, and she was innocently standing there – they even say trying to sort of hold back the crowd.”

“And a man did something unthinkable to her when he shot her, and I think it’s a disgrace. I’m going to look into that, I did not know that,” he added.

Kelly then probed about Michael Byrd, the U.S. Capitol Police lieutenant who shot Babbitt, who remains to be on responsibility and promoted to Captain in 2023. The Justice Department introduced in April 2021 that it might not pursue legal prices in opposition to Byrd after figuring out that the capturing was lawful.

“I think it’s a disgrace,” Trump, who was endorsed by the biggest police union within the U.S. final 12 months, mentioned. “I’m going to look at that too. His reputation was – I won’t even say. Let’s find out about his reputation, okay? We’re going to find out.”

The president additionally teased concept of a “compensation fund” for Jan. 6 defendants who had been beforehand imprisoned that he claimed had been handled “very unfairly” by the Biden administration.

“Well, there’s a lot of talk about that. A lot of people that are in government now talk about it, because a lot of people in government really like that group of people,” he mentioned.

“They were patriots, as far as I was concerned,” he continued. “A group of people went down there, peacefully and patriotically, remember that.”

On Friday, the president introduced up Babbitt’s deadly capturing when he in contrast the vandalization of Tesla dealerships to the storming of the Capitol, stating the extent of assaults had been larger in opposition to Elon Musk’s firm.

“You didn’t have anything like that on Jan. 6, which is sort of amazing because on Jan. 6, the Democrats were talking,” Trump mentioned. “Nobody was killed other than a very beautiful young woman, Ashli, Ashli Babbitt. Nobody was killed.”