"The Message of Trump’s Embrace of Ashli Babbitt Martyrdom"

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"Last Thursday, Donald Trump announced a new theme, with all his customary blunt-force subtlety. “Who shot Ashli Babbitt?"

"Two days later, at his rally in Florida, he said more. “Who shot Ashli Babbitt? We all saw the hand. We saw the gun. It’s a terrible thing, right? Shot. Boom. And it’s a terrible thing.”

"And then, speaking Wednesday, Trump returned to the subject again. Asked about the insurrection, he changed the subject to the terrible people on the other side who were not being charged, and brought up Babbitt once again: “The person that shot Ashli Babbitt. Boom. Right through the head. Just, boom. There was no reason for that."

"Babbitt’s death, while tragic, occurred for a very good reason. The Air Force veteran had joined the aggressive vanguard of the January 6 insurrection. Babbitt died trying to squeeze through the smashed window of a barricaded door that led to the inner sanctum where members of Congress were hiding from the mob. She was leading the mob violently forward toward its goal of threatening or killing officials who refused to cooperate with their objective of overturning the election result."

"The Trump right has dismissed the insurrection as overblown, a protest march gone bad, perhaps ill-considered but never posing any serious threat to the republic. The far right’s highlighting of Babbitt’s death sends a different message: The insurrection was good. Babbitt’s effort to penetrate the defensive barrier was brave, and the stopping of her charge a crime. Martyrs are the most potent symbols for a radical movement."

"Trump is endorsing the most radical interpretation of his presidency. January 6 was not a minor misstep after a successful era. It was the heroic culmination of a righteous uprising."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021...tion-riot.html

Now the MAGA militia has their "Liberty Leading the People" over the barricades

Pretty obvious that Ashli Babbitt as martyr is a key part of Trump's new script to defend himself by reframing the events of January 6th from a violent attack on the very seat of Government to a heroic patriotic effort to correct an injustice. And when the right wing media starts to echo the fiction, the MAGA militia will swallow it entirely

[BidenPresident]

Trump is a criminal. Tired of hearing about him.

[Cypress]

White privilege means you think you can trespass, vandalize, threaten, and bum rush police officers with no fear of facing lethal force or consequence..

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Trump is a criminal. Tired of hearing about him.

Well, from this, better get used to it, you are going to be hearing a lot about him for the next four years, he's not fading gracefully into the golf courses of Maralogo

[Geeko Sportivo]

Donald Trump owes Ashli Babbit's family an apology for egging her own to commit a felony and risk her life for his lies!

It's not even determined yet, if Donald Trump will be charged for his part in her death!

BUT STAY TUNED!

[BidenPresident]

Well, from this, better get used to it, you are going to be hearing a lot about him for the next four years, he's not fading gracefully into the golf courses of Maralogo

He will be fading because he will be fighting criminal charges on Trump Organization.

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He will be fading because he will be fighting criminal charges on Trump Organization.

Nope, just as he is doing here, he will reframe those also, play the martyr, those elite upper Westside New Yorkers are picking on him, use the very charges to rally the right

Major point you are missing, which has been confirmed thoroughly over the last five years, is no matter what Trump says or does, he has an entire political party and more importantly a major News Network that will vehemently defend and argue his care regardless

[BidenPresident]

Nope, just as he is doing here, he will reframe those also, play the martyr, those elite upper Westside New Yorkers are picking on him, use the very charges to rally the right

Major point you are missing, which has been confirmed thoroughly over the last five years, is no matter what Trump says or does, he has an entire political party and more importantly a major News Network that will vehemently defend and argue his care regardless

don't agree

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don't agree

Well, we will just have to wait and see, but we already know that Trump is going to walk away cleanly from the events of January 6th, so to underestimate what he now thinks he can get away with is naivety

[BidenPresident]

Well, we will just have to wait and see, but we already know that Trump is going to walk away cleanly from the events of January 6th, so to underestimate what he now thinks he can get away with is naivety

You're either a right winger or extreme cynic.

[Son of the Revolution]

the cop that shot Ashli will not be walking anywhere

[Darth Omar]

White privilege means you think you can trespass, vandalize, threaten, and bum rush police officers with no fear of facing lethal force or consequence..

What white privilege is that?

Floyd was a drug addict and a thug and he gets a statue while the unarmed armed service veteran that gets the kill shot from a cop who they refuse to even name gets…nothing.

White ‘privilege’?

[AProudLefty]

What white privilege is that?

Floyd was a drug addict and a thug and he gets a statue while the unarmed armed service veteran that gets the kill shot from a cop who they refuse to even name gets…nothing.

White ‘privilege’?

Did Floyd trespass and break in without authorization?

[BattleofHodow]

White privilege means you think you can trespass, vandalize, threaten, and bum rush police officers with no fear of facing lethal force or consequence..

Hmm, similar applies to BLM I suppose.

[Doc Dutch]

White privilege means you think you can trespass, vandalize, threaten, and bum rush police officers with no fear of facing lethal force or consequence..

No, it doesn't. In fact, it's a fabricated term like "assault weapon".

The reality is that Ashli Babbitt, like over 2/3s of the Insurrectionists currently arrested, had mental issues. She believed in a fantasy that got her, along with four others, killed.