Trump: ‘There Was No Reason’ To Shoot Ashli Babbitt | Talking Points Memo

Former president Trump doubled down on Wednesday on his remarks about Ashli Babbitt, suggesting that there was no reason for her death and that the officer involved should be punished.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1380278

Trump is trying to deflect from his legal troubles. We’ve seen it all before

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If he thinks the insurrection was so great, maybe we can get him to admit that he meant to incite it.

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Donald Trump Lying Again !

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Now that Trump knows that talking about Ashli Babbitt gets him attention (and those addictive headlines!), he will never shut up.

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Well, she was doing fatso’s bidding, so he has that.

Her death was unfortunate, but avoidable on her part.

What would have been the result if she had climbed through a window at the white house?

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The whole purpose of all of this crap is laid out by Chip Roy - sabotage everything …

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I think there’s an additional reason. This is stochastic terrorism: he’s playing it so that everyone involved in defending the capitol, and/or in resisting his paramilitaries, has to be afraid of actually being lynched.

It’s literally incitement to murder.

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And to stay in the news. We’ve seen that too. Why is the media still allowing itself to be played?

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It just shows how bad it is for him…he is throwing every diversion at it that he can come up with…sue Twitter, Free insurrectionists, Ashli Babbitt, and I’m sure there are a couple left to throw.

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Give him time I’m certain he will

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Having been part of the manipulation that got Babbitt killed, Donnie’s gonna keep using her as a tool now that she’s dead.
I wish ‘shameless’ said enough.

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He takes credit for everything else, so yeah.

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I can feel the new Benghazi coming on right now…the rights new " whine -cry…"

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There was no reason for the insurrection, Fatso!!

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Why all the concern for Ashli Babbitt, when I can think of 600,000 other Americans that didn’t have to die because of Trump.

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And as it did from yesterday to today, his story will continue to become more provocative and dishonest.

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Cops are so whiny, you’d think they’d speak out against Trump and anyone supporting the terrorists of January 6th, but…crickets.

At this point the silently complicit CP deserves what they get from Trump and the GOP.

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Update on the old football adage: Best defense is a a used car salesman in a loud tie and clouds of aftershave.

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“The person that shot Ashli Babbitt – boom, right through the head,” Trump told a crowd of people in Florida on Wednesday. “Just boom – there was no reason for that.”

v.o: “Previously on ‘The Donald Trump Show’.”

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