Donald Trump filmed a video for Capitol attacker Ashli Babbitt’s birthday, celebrating Babbitt’s life and saying “there was no reason Ashli should’ve lost her life that day” — while failing to describe Babbitt’s own actions, as part of a mob attack on the Capitol, that preceded her death.
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Trump is racking up the unearned media, isn’t he?
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Well, she was killed on your watch, so own it.
Normally, the word would be “observed,” and not “celebrated” because presumably this would be a solemn, and not a happy occasion.
But since the modern GOP is a violent, heavily armed insurgency, the word choice is fitting.
And of course the word choice in no way had to do with the fact that the officer was black.
Why is THIS the lead story on Talking Points Memo?
Just asking …
“there was no reason Ashli should’ve lost her life that day”
That’s true. If Trump hadn’t unleashed an insurrectionist mob to attack the Capitol and try to overturn an election, Babbitt would likely still be alive.
What a sick fuck! Pardon my French.
Because the de facto and de jure leader of one of our two major political parties is celebrating a terrorist being martyred to the cause of mob rule and violent insurrection. Seems newsworthy.
"Christ, what an asshole." – Lucy van Pelt
It’s part of a slow rolling insurrection.
I agree. Senseless death. She should have stayed home.
He did apparently wish her a “happy birthday,” which under most of the definitions I know for “happy” seems out of place…
“My heart and the hearts of millions of Americans across the country are with everyone — everyone — who knew and loved her,” Trump said, after wishing Babbitt a happy birthday.
He doesn’t know how to show true emotions for other people and just knows how to ape the staid platitudes without any sense of how appropriate they truly are for a specific situation.
Typical Trump: Trump makes himself the center of attention while exploiting a woman’s death. Even though she was part of an insurrection against the Constitution, she’s a martyr because she died for The Donald.
A very fine person who broke into the Capitol and attempted to force her way onto the House chamber to kill or take hostages in order to see Trump ascend the Presidency regardless of the American system electing leaders…
Happy birthday.
From the guy who tweeted: “When the looting starts, the shooting starts!”
Because the cultural appropriation aspects of a white woman posing in front of all these exotic locales in a creepy “tradition” she’s created of re-creating her wedding in every country she visits (note to husband-- psycho alert, RUN) was too extreme even for Josh to run with.
Truly an amazing individual we elected in 2016.