Trump’s DOJ Paying Nearly $5M to Capitol Attacker’s Family
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🗓️ 20 May 2025
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| 0:24.1 | has agreed to pay about $5 million to the family of January 6th writer Ashley Babbett, who was shot |
| 0:31.8 | fatally by police during the siege of the Capitol. This decision by the Trump Justice Department reverses the earlier |
| 0:40.7 | position from the Biden Justice Department. And, you know, this whole thing just really stinks. |
| 0:49.6 | If you add it to the total blanket pardon for all of the people who's joined the Capitol, even those who attacked police. |
| 1:00.0 | And now you layer on top of that, that not only are people getting off scot-free, but that the U.S. is beginning to pay off the families of the attackers. |
| 1:12.3 | Do you think Ashley Babbitt's going to be the last one? |
| 1:14.9 | Other people that suffered random injuries in their attack on the Capitol, |
| 1:18.9 | you don't think that others are going to see this and decide that they want to get theirs. |
| 1:25.2 | This has been a total Trump thing, and I think it's also important to remember. |
| 1:28.4 | This is not just a TDS situation. |
| 1:31.9 | People as Trump curious or Trump supportive or Trump lick spittily as Kevin McCarthy were as |
| 1:42.2 | recently as two years ago out there saying that the police officer in this |
| 1:45.5 | case did the right thing you think ashley babit was murdered or you think the police officer |
| 1:49.7 | who shot her was doing his job i think the police officer did his job this month in the |
| 1:54.4 | center republican uh from north korean and tom tillis was out there saying we got to be very clear |
| 1:59.1 | what happened on what happened on january 6 was wrong we have very clear what happened, that what happened on January 6th was wrong. |
| 2:01.8 | We have to be very, very clear that what happened on January the 6th was wrong. |
| 2:07.0 | So, you know, I mean, we could keep going down the line of this. |
| 2:09.4 | You know, you can do the cliche stuff. |
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