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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is what shows up on Bluesky when you search "Ashli Babbitt"
Lots of posts, all by folks pissed off that she is getting honored by Trump.
https://bsky.app/profile/trending.bsky.app/feed/391598450
Callie1979
(1,418 posts)mjvpi
(1,936 posts).from the Air Force?
Norrrm
(5,597 posts)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
enigmania
(507 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(182,091 posts)U.S. military funerals are traditionally reserved for actual heroes, not insurrectionists who attacked their own countrys capitol.
Why the scheduled military funeral for Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt is indefensible - MSNBC
— (@oc88.bsky.social) 2025-08-29T20:10:30.606Z
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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/scheduled-military-funeral-jan-6-rioter-ashli-babbitt-indefensible-rcna228089
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 Jahan 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 whos now estranged from the Republican Party, said in response to the news: While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadnt 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, its against this backdrop that his administration isnt just giving Babbitts family millions of dollars, its also giving Babbitt a military funeral traditionally reserved for actual heroes, not insurrectionists who attacked their own countrys capitol.
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