Trump Admin To Pay $5M In Death Of Insurrectionist

The Washington Post reports:

President Donald Trump’s administration has agreed to pay nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt to settle a lawsuit brought by the estate of the Trump supporter who was fatally shot by police when she tried to storm the House Speaker’s Lobby during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Babbitt’s family filed the wrongful death lawsuit in early 2024, seeking $30 million. Lawyers for both sides told a judge this month that they had reached a settlement in principle, reversing the Justice Department’s earlier opposition in the case, which had been set for trial in July 2026.

The settlement comes after Trump returned to office casting Babbitt as a martyr and seeking to rewrite the history of the assault on the Capitol as a heroic act of collective patriotism, not a violent effort to overturn an election. Five people died in or immediately after the violence, during which more than 140 officers were assaulted.

Read the full article. The cult is ecstatic.

US taxpayers will now pay Ashli Babbitt’s family $5 million. pic.twitter.com/fTNGJfIYGz

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 19, 2025