Taking questions after he announced his frivolous class action lawsuit against internet giants Google, Facebook and Twitter, Donald Trump responded to a question asking about what he attempted to do to quell the violence during the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol by citing a non-existent Congressional report and claiming he knows who shot insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt.
“So that whole event, unfortunate event, just went through Congress and a report was issued, and my name wasn’t even mentioned,” Trump claimed, although Congress has not issued a report on the January 6th insurrectionist attack. The House, however, did set up a bipartisan special committee to investigate the attack.
“The report came out, as you saw, two weeks ago. My name wasn’t even mentioned. That was an unfortunate event,” Trump rambled.
“I say, though, however, people are being treated unbelievably unfairly,” Trump said of the more than 500 people arrested for their participation in the attack that left five dead and caused $30 million of damage to the Capitol, “when you look at people in prison and nothing happens to antifa and they burn down cities and killed people.
“There were no guns in the Capitol,” Trump falsely claimed. “They burned down–except for the gun that shot Ashli Babbitt and nobody knows who that man was. If that were the opposite way, that man would be all over. He, he would be the most well-known, and I believe, I can say, maybe, because I know exactly who it is. But he would be the most well-known person in this country, in the world.
“But the person who shot Ashli Babbitt,” Trump said, dramatically making a finger gun and “firing” it, “BOOM, right through the head [FACT CHECK: Babbitt was struck in the shoulder]. Just BOOM. There was no reason for that. And why isn’t that person being opened up, and why isn’t that being studied? They’ve already written it off, they said that case is closed. If that were the opposite, that case would be going on for years and years.”
Babbitt was shot in the shoulder by a Capitol Police officer who was guarding a doorway leading to the Speaker’s Lobby in the House, where members of Congress were leaving the House floor. The officer shot Babbitt, who was crawling through a broken window of a door that had been barricaded, to protect members of Congress from the mob of insurrectionists who had been chanting “Hang Mike Pence” and making threats against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The Capitol Police cleared the officer of the shooting, saying it was justified to protect members of Congress.