Report: Trump Wanted to Lower the Flag at the White House for Ashli Babbitt

Over the past fewer weeks, Donald Trump has go progressively obsessed with Ashli Babbitt. Babbitt, who took portion successful the Capitol insurrection, was changeable arsenic she attempted to breach a barricade.

Republican lawmakers and media are present attempting to marque Babbitt retired to beryllium a martyr. And according a caller report, Trump had plans to bash truthful days aft the insurrection.

A root told the Daily Beast, “Trump has privately complained that helium didn’t little the flag. He made the backstage comments arsenic precocious arsenic 2 weeks ago, the study said.”

And portion Trump had to beryllium talked retired of lowering the Flag for 1 of the rioters, helium did not privation to bash truthful for Capitol constabulary serviceman Brian Sicknick. Even Chris Christie blasted Trump for the delay, saying, “I mean, it is simply a nationalist disgrace … that the emblem astatine the White House is not half-staff for that Capitol Hill Police serviceman who gave his beingness successful protecting 1 of our institutions of democracy.”

Trump, connected the different hand, continues to speech astir Babbitt successful glowing terms. During a play quality connected Maria Bartiromo’s show, helium asked, “Who was the idiosyncratic who changeable an innocent, wonderful, unthinkable woman? I volition archer you, they cognize who changeable Ashley Babbitt. They’re protecting that person. I’ve heard besides that it was the caput of information for a definite precocious authoritative — a Democrat.”