.ZeeshanAleem: The reality of the situation is that fmr. President Trump doesn’t view Ashli Babbitt’s death as an extraordinary tragedy as much he sees it as an extraordinary opportunity.
Scott Olson / Getty Images; MSNBCOn Sunday the family and friends of Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was fatally shot by Capitol Police as she tried to break into a hallway with lawmakers on Jan. 6, gathered to mark her birthday and commemorate her life. But the occasion was blessed by a prominent sympathizer: former President Donald Trump, who recorded a personalized video message expressing solidarity with Babbitt and outrage on her behalf.
Trump’s tack isn’t subtle: He’s doubling down on creating a martyr out of the most prominent rioter to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, and in the process continuing to craft an alternative iconography surrounding the meaning of that day. Coupled with his ongoing devotion to perpetrating the lie that the 2020 election was rigged against him, he’s priming his base to think of the riot as a tragedy for freedom fighters rather than the defense of authoritarianism it really was.
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