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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewly released transcripts reveal a MAGA betrayal: Donald Trump never cared about Ashli Babbitt
Newly released transcripts reveal a MAGA betrayal: Donald Trump never cared about Ashli BabbittTrump now hypes her as a January 6 martyr, but when he was told of Babbitt's death, there was "no, like, reaction"
By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED MARCH 25, 2024 6:00AM (EDT)
(Salon) Nine people died as a result of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection that Republicans pretend was a "normal tourist visit." Four rioters and five police officers lost their lives during the attack or in its immediate aftermath, in ways that likely would not have happened but for the Capitol riot. This death toll is rarely discussed in the media coverage of the attack, likely because journalists don't want to argue with gaslighting fascists who want to get into bad faith debates about whether the assault "caused" the heart attacks and suicides that took lives. But there is one death that no one can deny was due to Jan. 6: That of Ashli Babbitt, the QAnon-believing insurrectionist who was shot by a Capitol police officer as she attempted to lead a charge of rioters to run down fleeing members of Congress.
Instead of erasing her death in their efforts to pretend the riot was "peaceful," Donald Trump and his goons have turned the 36-year-old conspiracy theorist into a MAGA martyr. As with much of Trump's campaign antics, it calls back to the tactics of the Nazis, who turned a murdered scumbag named Horst Wessel into a fallen fascist hero honored in iconography and song. Babbitt is even easier to prop up as a sympathetic figure, she was both pretty and female.
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So really, it should be bigger news that recently released testimony from a White House valet shows that Trump's reaction when told about Babbitt's death was utter indifference. It's buried in a New York Times report on this recently released transcript of an interview the anonymous valet did with the House committee investigating Jan. 6. The Times reporters are more focused on the valet's recollections of how Trump told his vice president, Mike Pence, that it would be "a political career killer" if Pence refused to steal the election for him. In passing, however, they also mention Trump did not care about Babbitt's killing and the timeline suggests he understood perfectly well at the time that Babbitt was to blame for her own death.
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That Trump did not actually care about Babbitt's death, outside of fears that it made him look bad, is not a surprise to most Salon readers, journalists, or anyone who is honest about Trump's utter lack of morality. Perhaps this is why this revelation isn't getting more press attention. There's a tendency in the jaded press to assume "everyone" knows that Trump has never in his life cared about anyone but himself. But not all voters know that Trump is for-real sociopathic, and they may be surprised to find he reacted to a deluded woman dying for him like normal people react to stepping on an ant. ...............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/25/newly-released-transcripts-reveal-a-maga-betrayal-donald-never-cared-about-ashli-babbitt/
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Newly released transcripts reveal a MAGA betrayal: Donald Trump never cared about Ashli Babbitt (Original Post)
marmar
Mar 25
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BlueWaveNeverEnd
(8,106 posts)1. Faux nooze and rightwing radio will never report this to MAGA
jcgoldie
(11,655 posts)2. Did anyone in the world think Trump GAF about Babbit?
The reason these reports make no waves is because not even Trump Maga morons are clueless enough to think he would give a fuck about her (or anyone else).
Irish_Dem
(47,518 posts)3. Trump cares only about himself.
The only things he loves: money, power, and his properties.
spanone
(135,900 posts)4. He's a one man man.
sarisataka
(18,821 posts)5. Least surprising news of the day
Most likely he was thinking "is that all?"
Blue Owl
(50,532 posts)6. In true sociopathic form....
GoodRaisin
(8,930 posts)7. I don't know why anyone would think any different.
Real news would be that he actually did something that shows he does care about her, other than using her death as a prop for himself. But we all know that wont happen because we all know the things he does care about, and people are not among those things.
The truth is that he should stand trial for manslaugnter in her death.
Fla Dem
(23,785 posts)8. Of course he didn't. He only cares about himself.