The House Speaker told reporters that Micki Witthoeft “requested the meeting,” which took place in his office, just steps away from where her daughter Ashli Babbitt was shot on Jan. 6, 2021.…
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Thursday met with the mother of Ashli Babbitt, the woman shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer outside the Speaker’s Lobby on Jan. 6, 2021.
McCarthy told reporters that Babbitt’s mom, Micki Witthoeft, “requested the meeting,” which took place in his office, just steps away from“I thought Speaker McCarthy was delightful.” Witthoeft didn’t go into detail about the meeting but confirmed that the two discussed a comment made by McCarthy last month in which he expressed his support of Byrd’s use of lethal force.when asked by a reporter if he thought Babbitt was murdered. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Thursday met with the mother of Ashli Babbitt, Micki Witthoeft.The Air Force veteran, Trump supporter andByrd wasAshli Babbitt was killed by a Capitol Police officer outside the Speaker’s Lobby on Jan. 6, 2021.
Some far-right lawmakers, such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , don’t buy that Babbitt’s killing was justified. “There’s a woman in this room whose daughter was murdered on Jan, 6, Ashli Babbitt, and … there’s never been a trial,” Greene“As a matter of fact, no one has cared about the person that shot and killed her. And no one in this Congress has really addressed that issue,” Greene added, demanding a “civil rights” probe of Jan. 6 arrests.
On Friday, Greene and several other GOP members of Congress plan to visit the Washington, DC, jail where some of the rioters
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