Pelosi spokesperson calls out Trump for threatening Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt
Related: Pelosi Spokesperson Statement Calling on House Republican Leadership to Condemn Continued Republican Attacks on U.S. Capitol Police
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Source: Yahoo News
Pelosi spokesperson calls out Trump for threatening Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt
Caitlin Dickson·Reporter
Fri, August 13, 2021, 2:45 PM
A spokesperson for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned former President Donald Trump’s recent statement threatening the officer who shot Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt and called on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to stand up to Republicans who continue to attack members of law enforcement who fought to protect the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
“Enough is enough,” wrote Robyn Patterson, Pelosi’s deputy communications director, in a statement Thursday. “These attacks are disgusting, wrong and a wholly unacceptable way to treat the men and women who went through hell to protect our democracy from armed insurrectionists.”
Patterson was responding to a statement issued by Trump on Wednesday, in which he claimed that Babbitt, an Air Force veteran who was shot while trying to climb through the broken window of a door to the Speaker’s Lobby inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, was “murdered.”
“We know who he is,” Trump said of the U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot Babbitt. “The Radical Left haters cannot be allowed to get away with this. There must be justice!"
Babbitt was one of four Trump supporters who died after storming the Capitol building on Jan. 6 as Congress met to certify Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 election. She was almost immediately embraced as a martyr by the far right.
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