Congress, Criminal law, Torts

Report: The Officer Who Killed Ashli Babbitt Had a Long History of Disciplinary and Training Problems

I have previously written about the dubious investigations of the shooting of Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6th and the alleged violation of the standards for the use of lethal force by the officer who shot her. I strongly disagreed with the findings of investigations by the Capitol Police and the Justice Department in clearing Captain Michael Byrd, who shot the unarmed protester. Now, Just the News has an alarming report of the record of Byrd that only magnifies these concerns.

Liberal politicians and pundits often refer to multiple deaths from the Jan. 6th riot. In reality, only one person died that day, and that was Babbitt, who was shot while trying to climb through a window. However, the media lionized Byrd and portrayed the killing of the unarmed Babbitt as clearly justified. That is in sharp contrast to the approach that the media has taken in other shootings by law enforcement.

An unjustified killing by police on that day was inconsistent with the public narrative pushed by the pundits and the press.

As I have previously written, what occurred on Jan. 6th was a disgrace. However, it was a riot, not an insurrection. (It was certainly not an act of terrorism as claimed by some Democratic politicians). A protest at the Capitol resulted in a complete breakdown of the inadequate security precautions, a failure that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi privately admitted but only recently was disclosed.

The failure of Pelosi and others to properly prepare for the protest, despite the offer of President Donald Trump of 10,000 National Guard troops, does not excuse the conduct of the rioters who attacked the Capitol, interrupted the constitutional process, and committed property damage.

Babbitt was one of those rioters. She was wrong in her actions, but the penalty for breaking a window and unauthorized entry is not death in this country. I previously spoke with her mother, Micki Witthoeft, and her husband, Aaron Babbitt, about their continuing effort to expose what occurred that day.

The new report confirms what many of us had previously heard about the Byrd controversy.

Babbitt, 35, was an Air Force veteran and Trump supporter who participated in the riot three years ago. She was clearly committing criminal acts of trespass, property damage, and other offenses.  However, the question is whether an officer is justified in shooting a protester when he admits that he did not see any weapon before discharging his weapon.

Just to recap what we previously discussed in the earlier column:

When protesters rushed to the House chamber, police barricaded the chamber’s doors; Capitol Police were on both sides, with officers standing directly behind Babbitt. Babbitt and others began to force their way through, and Babbitt started to climb through a broken window. That is when Byrd killed her.

At the time, some of us familiar with the rules governing police use of force raised concerns over the shooting. Those concerns were heightened by the DOJ’s bizarre review and report, which stated the governing standards but then seemed to brush them aside to clear Byrd.

The DOJ report did not read like any post-shooting review I have read as a criminal defense attorney or law professor. The DOJ statement notably does not say that the shooting was justified. Instead, it stressed that “prosecutors would have to prove not only that the officer used force that was constitutionally unreasonable, but that the officer did so ‘willfully.’” It seemed simply to shrug and say that the DOJ did not believe it could prove “a bad purpose to disregard the law” and that “evidence that an officer acted out of fear, mistake, panic, misperception, negligence, or even poor judgment cannot establish the high level of intent.”

While the Supreme Court, in cases such as Graham v. Connor, has said that courts must consider “the facts and circumstances of each particular case,” it has emphasized that lethal force must be used only against someone who is “an immediate threat to the safety of the officers or others, and … is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight.” Particularly with armed assailants, the standard governing “imminent harm” recognizes that these decisions must often be made in the most chaotic and brief encounters.

Under these standards, police officers should not shoot unarmed suspects or rioters without a clear threat to themselves or fellow officers. That even applies to armed suspects who fail to obey orders. Indeed, Huntsville police officer William “Ben” Darby was convicted of killing a suicidal man holding a gun to his head. Despite being cleared by a police review board, Darby was prosecuted, found guilty, and sentenced to 25 years in prison, even though Darby said he feared for the safety of himself and fellow officers. Yet law professors and experts who have praised such prosecutions in the past have been conspicuously silent over the shooting of an unarmed woman who had officers in front of and behind her on Jan. 6.

Byrd went public soon after the Capitol Police declared that “no further action will be taken” in the case. He then demolished the two official reviews that cleared him.

Byrd described how he was “trapped” with other officers as “the chants got louder” with what “sounded like hundreds of people outside of that door.” He said he yelled for all of the protesters to stop: “I tried to wait as long as I could. I hoped and prayed no one tried to enter through those doors. But their failure to comply required me to take the appropriate action to save the lives of members of Congress and myself and my fellow officers.”

Byrd could just as well have hit the officers behind Babbitt, who was shot while struggling to squeeze through the window.

Of all of the lines from Byrd, this one stands out: “I could not fully see her hands or what was in the backpack or what the intentions are.” So, Byrd admitted he did not see a weapon or an immediate threat from Babbitt beyond her trying to enter through the window. Nevertheless, Byrd boasted, “I know that day I saved countless lives.” He ignored that Babbitt was the one person killed during the riot. (Two protesters died of natural causes and a third from an amphetamine overdose; one police officer died the next day from natural causes, and four officers have committed suicide since then.) No other officers facing similar threats shot anyone in any other part of the Capitol, even those who were attacked by rioters armed with clubs or other objects.

The new report confirms prior accounts that Byrd had prior disciplinary and training issues. According to Just the News, they included “a failed shotgun qualification test, a failed FBI background check for a weapon’s purchase, a 33-day suspension for a lost weapon and referral to Maryland state prosecutors for firing his gun at a stolen car fleeing his neighborhood.”

Given this history and the shooting of Babbitt, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the chair of the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee investigation, wrote to express concern over Byrd’s promotion to captain. Those incidents included Byrd firing at a car and allegedly misrepresenting the incident in claiming that “he fired at a vehicle trying to strike him when the evidence fellow officers found at the scene indicated he shot at the vehicle after it had already passed him and no longer posed a threat.” The letter states the Office of Professional Responsibility found that the evidence did not support his claim and “OPR concluded that the evidence suggests Byrd ‘discharged his service weapon at the vans after they passed him by.’”

The concern is that the political environment — and powerful interests in Congress — demanded that Byrd be cleared. As discussed in my new book, “The Indispensable Right,” the Justice Department had publicly pledged to bring “shock and awe” in prosecuting anyone associated with the riot. Finding that the only person killed that day was an unjustified shooting would not exactly fit with the narrative.

The incidents also include allegations of improper handling of his weapon, including reports that Byrd left his service weapon in a public bathroom in the Capitol Visitor Center complex used by tourists and visitors.

The Babbitt family has continued to fight to force the facts into the open and has filed a civil case. A trial is now set for 2026.

Here is his letter detailing the disciplinary problems of Captain Byrd:

11.20.2024 Letter From Rep. Barry Loudermilk to USCP Chief of Police Manger.pdf

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”

 

 

398 thoughts on “Report: The Officer Who Killed Ashli Babbitt Had a Long History of Disciplinary and Training Problems”

    1. The House margin is too thin for him to pick another representative.

    1. This is the idiot that has. been elected to be Prez of the U.S.

      “For him, all countries were rivals in which the success of one meant the failure of another. He didn’t think that prosperity could be increased for all through cooperation.”

      What a clown.l Thank you trump supporters.

      1. This is the idiot that has. been elected to be Prez of the U.S.

        Are you referencing Obama and his supporters: the Prez that first unleashed and empowered Iran’s Mad Mullahs and then gave them pallets of unmarked cash like a Cartel drug deal to spend murdering Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as elsewhere. And then allowing Putin to put military forces in the Middle East, and then invade Ukraine.

        That the Prez you’re posting about?

        Or perhaps you’re speaking of Biden and his supporters: the Prez that let those Mad Mullahs out of the cage Trump had put them back in and removed sanctions so they could have the money to fund Iran and it’s terrorists continuing to murder Americans. The foreign policy expert Prez that allowed Putin to invade Ukraine a second time. The Prez who gave Americans that Mostly Peaceful And Secure Border – and Bidenomics inflation! The Prez that said American women must submit to his directives and subjugate themselves to men using their changerooms and bathrooms, and competing against them in college and olympic sports?

        That the Prez you’re posting about?

        Commies, whether here in America or commies in government over Europe never talk about the two Marxist presidential clowns like that!

    2. Angela Merkel? Isn’t she the politician who destroyed Germany through unfettered immigration? Yes, I can see why she thinks a politician who believes countries have borders is abnormal.

      1. I know, can you believe someone that calls themselves a Christian would help immigrants?

        Give me a break. Didn’t Jesus say kill the immigrants, round them up, put them in camps, eat their pets.

        1. I forget, did Jesus say the job of the civil government is to victimize its own citizens? Please remind me, and cite chapter and verse.

        2. I forget, did Jesus say the job of the government is to victimize its own people? Please quote chapter and verse.

        3. His Father said, Thou Shalt Not Covet, Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness, Thou Shalt Not Steal.

          You Shall Not covet other people’s assets and nation, lie to get in, and steal other people’s property and nation.

          1. Right? The Left always shouts “separation of church and state” until the want the government to act in a way they think the Bible supports (even though it doesn’t, but that’s beside the point).

        5. “I know, can you believe someone that calls themselves a Christian would help immigrants?”

          Can you believe that an Anonymous commie atheist hopes to lecture on Christianity?

          And hopes readers here don’t know the difference between Illegal Alien Guest Democrat Voters and actual immigrants who arrive with their immigrant visas laminated in their passports to show to Customs and Border Patrol Officers at normal ports of entry.

          Mocking these pathetic ‘tards is about as hard as clubbing newborn baby seals.

          These commies… can’t do anything well. Which why they cowardly post as “Anonymous” and then disappear back into their sister’s spare clothes closet to spend the rest of the day sniffing soiled panties and socks.

      2. @oldmandfromKansas: Yes, the very same! Add that it appeared that “unfettered immigration” was at the direction of Barack Hussein Obama.

    4. Angela Merkel, a wackjob Feminazi, fully immersed East German communist, and barren “childless cat lady” with no raison d’être other than the pursuit of misandrist hysteria and incoherence. 

  3. Thankfully Gaetz is out!! My choices are Mike Davis, Mark Levin and Professor Turley.

    Sorry to my conservative friends but as a Trump supporter I really think he blew it with Gaetz, Hegspeth and Tulsi. Hegspeth is a fine choice for some lower level position, but how in the world does Trump think he is Sec Def material?

    As for Tulsi, I really like her, her support during the campaign was very helpful and I think she is a good candidate for some position in the administration. BUT NOT DNI!!!! Her positions on some foreign situations are just too “libertarian” or isolationist for the world’s only super power able to try to counter the CCP. DO you want us to leave Israel to defend itself against Iran, Russia and China? Do we want to watch as Saudi Arabia is forced into aligning themselves with China as we turtle? Do you want Brazil to lead the way for the CCP to make giant inroads in our hemisphere?

    Gaetz is out, Pete is next and maybe Tulsi sneaks by.

    1. I like Mark Levine for AG, called for it from day 1.

      Please name the last consequential SecDef…it will make my point that who the F cares, their only job is liaison and Pentagon internal policy. Beyond that, they can only F things up.

      Hint….his name rhymes with Dumbsfeld

      1. Mark Levin does not believe in the American Constitution and Bill of Rights. Mark Levin is a complete and bizarre ideological ditz. Rather than compel the judicial branch to fulfill its sworn-oath duty to support the clear meaning of the words of the Constitution, he promotes a convention of states to basically amend and rewrite a new “Levin Constitution.”  The only thing America ever needed was for its fundamental and statutory law to be strictly enforced.  Imagine a homogeneous and harmonious nation of people under the Naturalization Act, Constitution, and Bill of Rights of the American Founders and Framers. 

        1. “Mark Levin does not believe in the American Constitution and Bill of Rights. Mark Levin is a complete and bizarre ideological ditz.”

          A communist has arrived to explain Mark Levin and the Constitution.

          A communist that says that the Constitution doesn’t have two ways for amendment, the Framers only provided one.

          There is no such thing as a convention of states, and Levin is a bizarre ideological ditz to claim that it actually exists.

          It might be a Democrat Confederate Kluxxer! George, you may have the company of one of your Democrat commie brothers from another mother!

      3. “I’m sure trump will find another sexual predator for the spot.”

        Translated

        “I’m sure we’ll accuse anyone he finds for the spot”

      4. JFK, Monster, By Timothy Noahk

        “I knew that John F. Kennedy was a compulsive, even pathological adulterer, given to taking outlandish risks after he entered the White House. I knew he treated women like whores. And I knew he had more than a few issues with his father about toughness and manliness and all that. But before I read in the newspaper that Mimi Alford’s just-released memoir, Once Upon A Secret: My Affair With President John F. Kennedy And Its Aftermath, described giving Dave Powers a blow job at JFK’s request and in his presence, I didn’t know that Kennedy had an appetite for subjecting those close to him to extreme humiliation.”

        “Clinton pays Paula Jones $850,000”
        Associated Press
        Wed 13 Jan 1999 13.15 EST

        “WASHINGTON (AP) – Paula Jones is awaiting the arrival of an $850,000 cheque from President Clinton, bringing an official end to the four-year saga spurred by her allegations of sexual harassment.”

        “FDR and His Women”
        “… she was deeply wounded to discover that Franklin had been having an affair with her secretary, Lucy Mercer.”

        Bill Clinton as enabled by Hillary Clinton
        _____________________________________________

        1. Eileen Wellstone (1969) Allegation: Sexual assault
        2. Anonymous female student at Yale University (1972) Allegation: Sexual assault
        3. Anonymous female student at the University of Arkansas (1974) Allegation: Sexual assault
        4. Anonymous female lawyer (1977) Allegation: Sexual assault
        5. Juanita Broaddrick (1978) Allegation: Rape
        6. Carolyn Moffet (1979) Allegation: Sexual assault
        7. Elizabeth Ward (1983) Allegation: Unclear
        8. Sally Perdue (1983) Allegation: Unclear
        9. Paula Jones (1991) Allegation: Sexual harassment
        10. Sandra Allen James (1991) Allegation: Sexual assault
        11. Christy Zercher (1992) Allegation: Sexual assault
        12. Kathleen Willey (1993) Allegation: Sexual assault

      5. “I’m sure trump will find another sexual predator for the spot.”

        Democrat sexual predators like you and President Biden who raped both his aids and his daughter are going to find another sexual predator to run for president in four years?

    3. Hullbobby, so you’re admitting Trump is making bad choices. That’s not a good sign of Trump’s “leadership skills”.

      1. We dont need a “sign” of his skills, you libturd.

        You are so pathetic

        Beahahahabbahaabhahaha the next 4 years are gonna be fun.

    4. Professor Turley.

      If you think Professor Turley is up to the job of cleaning up the AG and DoJ when it has taken him YEARS to rise to the weak levels of criticism he has now for his friend Merrick Garland, then your evaluations of any of Trump’s picks is piss poor.

      Professor Turley, in your words, “is a fine choice for some lower level position”. But not to take charge of dealing with that cesspool.

      He is well worth following as a source of information and reasoning on issues: but when he lacks the spine to call malevolent fellow Democrat lawyers exactly what they’re acting as, police state fascists, he isn’t up to the job of dealing with people like Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Jack Smith, etc.

      I can agree to some extent or completely on Gaetz. But you are ignoring the history of former Secretary of Defenses while claiming Hegseth hasn’t shown the qualities to be able to deal with the rot in that portfolio. I can’t think of anyone better to take on the Democrat war on the military that has been going on during both Obama and now Biden’s terms.

  4. Will Michael Davis be the next AG nominee? If so, some on the Left are going to wish Gaetz had been confirmed.

  5. Turley must really need the cash or the job of full time pundit. He continues to ignore a story for which he IS qualified to comment–the attempted circumvention of the Constitutional “advise and consent” provision for presidential nominations for the cabinet by Trump demanding that Republicans in the Senate convene and then immediately go into recess for at least 10 days–to prevent the public vetting process. This wholesale effort to bypass the “advise and consent” provision of the Constitution has never before happened in our history.

    Worse still, Turley repeats the lie about Pelosi allegedly refusing 10,000 troops. From “USA Today”:

    “Trump Says Pelosi Turned Down His Request For 10,000 National Guard Troops For Jan. 6 Rally…!!!” reads the caption of a Dec. 13 Facebook video that accumulated more than 4,000 views within a couple days.

    The video included in the post shows Trump speaking to a crowd on Dec. 11 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he claimed he recommended 10,000 National Guard troops be deployed because he knew the crowd size was going to be “enormous.”

    “I recommended 10 but I said do whatever they want, they’re running the Capitol, they know what they’re doing,” Trump says in the video. “And the Capitol police knew about it, she (Pelosi) knew about it, and they turned it down because they said it didn’t look good.”

    But Trump’s claim was debunked by fact-checkers in March, after he first made the statement during a Fox News appearance, and it’s still not true. There is no evidence Trump made any formal request about deploying 10,000 National Guard troops before the rally.

    USA TODAY reached out to Trump’s spokesperson and the Facebook page that shared the video for additional comment.

    No record of the request
    A government memo about the events leading up to Jan. 6, statements from Pelosi’s office and the Pentagon and testimony from the former House sergeant-at-arms show Trump did not request 10,000 troops ahead of the rally.

    Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s spokesperson, told USA TODAY that Pelosi’s office was not consulted or contacted regarding any request for the National Guard ahead of Jan. 6, and he noted the speaker of the House does not have the power to reject that type of request.

    Claims that Pelosi was in charge of Capitol security on Jan. 6 have been previously debunked by USA TODAY. The Capitol Police are overseen by the Capitol Police Board and committees from the Senate and House of Representatives. ”

    It is a fundamental, basic and undeniable truth that troops would not have been needed but for THE BIG LIE. That was the instigating motive behind January 6th. Trump had exhausted his legal avenues, his bullying of Secretaries of State to “find” votes he didn’t received failed, trying to bully Pence failed, so sending his fans to try to stop Pence from certifying Biden’s victory was all that was left. Turley ignores these inconvenient facts.

    Worst of all is Turley feeding on the grief of Ashli Babbitt’s family by misrepresenting the facts. Babbitt died because of THE BIG LIE. She, and other insurrectionists were at the Capitol at the request of Trump to try to STOP Pence from accepting the certified votes. AND, that’s why their conduct was an insurrection–not a riot. If all they wanted to do was riot, there was no need to break into the Capitol building by smashing windows and doors and beating up police officers–no need to enter the building at all. In fact, if registering their complaint was the goal, they could have marched around the town square with signs in their home towns. Trump TOLD them to come to Washington to “fight like hell or you’re not going to have a country any more”. He promised “it will be wild”. Multiple J6 Defendants testified that they committed the crimes of which they either pleaded guilty or were found guilty of because of THE BIG LIE.

    And, Babbitt was shot because she was trying to breach the last barrier to the floor of the House. WHY was she and the other insurrectionists intent on getting to the floor of the House? To prevent the Constitutional peaceful transfer of power–AND THIS IS WHY J6 was an insurrection–NOT A RIOT. The invasion was designed and intended to interfere with the operation of our government. The crowd was hunting for Pelosi and Pence, intending to kill them. AND, Trump sat by for over 3 hours and allowed the carnage to unfold.

    She was warned not to proceed–before breaking the window and trying to enter. She saw officers with guns pointed at her, and, based on her devotion to Trump, chose to proceed anyway. That devotion cost her her life. Officer Byrd had no choice other than to stop her and the others from harming members of the House he was sworn to protect.

    It is not just factually inaccurate to accuse Officer Byrd of misconduct for shooting Babbitt, but it is morally reprehensible for Turley to ignore facts and to mislead the Babbitt family into believing that, somehow, whatever training and discipline problems were attached to Officer Byrd played any role in her death instead of her poor choices and her gullible devotion to Trump. The main person responsible for her death is Donald J. Trump–a narcissistic sociopath, who convinced substantial numbers of gullible people to believe that a nonexistent “victory” was “stolen”. Officer Byrd was there to protect the members of the House from being attacked by Trump fans– he did his job. Had he stood by and allowed the angry mob to proceed to the floor of the House and to harm members of the House, he would have been derelict in his duty and oath. And–what would have happened to the members of the House if Officer Byrd had just let them proceed? It’s likely that several of them would have been killed and/or injured. Today’s post goes far beyond punditry–It is absolutely shameful for Turley to spin the facts and try to blame Officer Byrd for Babbitt’s death.

    2. the Department of Defense and the Coast Guard may provide such assistance on a temporary basis without reimbursement when assisting the United States Capitol Police in its duties directly related to protection under sections 1922, 1961, 1966, 1967, and 1969 of this title and sections 5101 to 5107 and 5109 of title 40.1 Before making a request under this paragraph, the Capitol Police Board shall consult with appropriate Members of the Senate and House of Representatives in leadership positions, except in an emergency.

      IE, Nancy Pelosi.

      Further, the Capitol Police Board is made up of whom, spastic Gigenius? You act like its some kind of committee and not a chain of command.

      Thats right, the Sargeants at Arms of the Senate and House, and the Architect of the Capital.

      And who does the SAA of the House answer to, Gigenius??? Why, Nancy Pelosi.

      1. Nancy Pelosi was not in a “leadership position” in the Senate–Mitch McConnell was. Whatever you cited says that the Capitol Police Board is the one who would be “making a request”–not the Speaker of the House, and that they had to also consulte with “members of the Senate” “in leadership positions”. So, why aren’t you blaming McConnell? WHY WAS THERE A NEED FOR MORE SUPPORT THAN THE CAPITOL POLICE? Answer that one. WHY did so many people believe that the 2020 election was “stolen”, after 60 + courts ruled there was no evidence? Why wouldn’t Trump shut up and accept the will of the American people instead of trying one last, gasp effort to thwart the results of the election? Nancy Pelosi is not at fault–the narcissism and sociopathy of Donald J. Trump was the cause. In any event, Turley is not being truthful by claiming that Nancy Pelosi refused the offer for 10,000 troops. That didn’t happen.

    3. Politifact also rates as false that Pelosi refused to bring in the troops.

      But hey, what does truth have to do with anything trump says?

      Voting was fraudulent until he won an election. How could that be? Democrats were in charge of voting and there wasn’t fraud? trump has truly lost his mind. Oh wait, I doubt he ever had one to loose.

      https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/13/social-media/fact-checking-claim-pelosi-takes-responsibility-fo/

    4. NUTCHACHACHA, why didn’t brother Byrd simply physically restrain the unarmed female? Why take a head shot at an unarmed and harmless perp? Why not take a leg shot at an unarmed and harmless perp? Brother Byrd is a sicko racist, in my humble opinion.

  6. Here’s Turley’s chance to put his name in for AG. Gaetz called it quits. Trump’s first failure and that’s before he’s been sworn in.

    1. Hard to imagine a better choice than Turley for this position. He’s a clear-thinking lawyer who knows the ins and outs, and is beholden to the law and not politics.

      1. madleader: Uh, no. Today’s post is proof that he is anything but “beholden to the law and not politics”–he is a pundit that does what he is told. Turley misrepresented the facts in this piece–and, not only that, he has traded on the grief of the Babbitt family to score political points, which is reprehensible. He has no prosecutorial experience, either. But, to the extent Trump is looking for a syncophatic toady who will do what he is told and spin the facts and law, well then Turley fits the bill.

        2. madleader: Uh, no. Today’s post is proof that he is anything but “beholden to the law and not politics”–

          if Gigi The Democrat Fire Ho Of Lies is posting… she’s lying her Bolshevik Bytch Pravda shaped ass off.

    2. Glad to see you like the new Senator from Florida.

      Interesting what passes for failure in your failed world, Svelaz.

      1. Senator? He still has to answer for his allegations. Just because he withdrew his name does not mean he is still qualified to hold any office. Gaetz is damaged goods and he knows it.

          1. That’s not what the DOJ just dropped. Even the house investigation found severe issues. Gaetz is damaged goods.

            1. Really, please cite the text of the house investigation so we can all read it.

              Or the DOJ report.

              Either one.

              Did Jimmy Fallon give you your opinion again, Svelaz?

            2. George is like the Scrooge of this blog. After losing on all his election claims, we thought he would disappear into the sunset, but he’s here again, like an ornery, unhappy old man, looking for revenge and get-backs.

        2. Senator? He still has to answer for his allegations.

          George is severely damaged goods and he knows it. Some were dropped on their heads when they were babies. George’s parents took him by the feet and repeatedly swung his head at a lamp post.

          On the subject of answering for allegations, there’s George’s favorite President: Bribery Biden. Still in the Oval Office despite his hand picked Special Counsel saying his boss had committed serial felonies over his four decades in public office. But he wasn’t going to indict his boss: his DoJ Ouija Board told him that the Clinton Get Out Of Jail Card applies.

          George, you ignorant cull, that Clinton Get Out Of Jail card his junior employee handed Bribery Biden has no power whatsoever as amnesty for those crimes his employee says the evidence proves he committed..

          With all your calls for trials where allegations have been made by your party – when do you start bugling that the day of Trump’s inauguration ex-president Biden must be indicted and brought to trial in a fair venue like Montana or Idaho.

    3. But to do that would admit that JT is also a sexual predator. Look any DJTs picks, is one of them not a sexual predator? Including DJT himself?

      1. What is sniff the little girls, taking showers with daughter, Tara Reade rapist Joe Biden??

      2. “Look any DJTs picks, is one of them not a sexual predator? Including DJT himself?”

        Is that you President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Incest Showers?

        Or one of Harvey Weinstein’s sponsors and protectors? Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama!

  8. Jessie Smollett for AG. He no longer has anything to fear from you-know-who. Plus, he knows first-hand how the justice system works.

  9. I love walking through the farmer’s market in my very blue city wearing my ‘Hispanics for Trump” gear and watching the love and tolerance crowd burst blood vessels. They simply cannot decide whether to suck up since I’m Hispanic or hate me.

    I rarely get a negative comment from another Hispanic, if I do it is usually a middle class Anglo, White s@@tlib.

    I love it, absolutely love it!

    antonio

    2. As an addendum that perhaps can be answered by one of our Anglo, White s@@tlib friends?

      1. Why do White liberals hate their own people so much; wish to save Hispanics and other minorities and become highly offended when you don’t need saving?

      2. Why do White liberals talk down to you? Conservatives treat me like anyone else, which I prefer.

      I get more grief from White liberals than any other Hispanic for leaving the plantation.

      S@@tlibs, please help, I need answers.

      antonio

  10. On Thursday, an attorney for the woman who alleges she had a sexual relationship with Gaetz when she was a minor said the Ethics panel should release the report.

    Interesting that this “attorney” would care to voice an opinion one way or another.

    1. So, this is the first girl under the age of 18 in the history of man who had sex? Who believes this? Alternatively, girls under the age of 18 may have sex all the time. Some “studies” indicate the average initial age is 15 or 16. This seems more akin to mass hysteria.

      1. And she was a sugar baby on the website Seeking.com

        Therefore she had purported and attested herself to be of legal age.

        Remember, for the libturds, it always needs to have “willful intent” to be a crime.

        I for one have not asked for ID from ANY girl I have porked.

      2. Anonymous: do you even get the point here? Gaetz paid $10K for sex with young women, one of whom was underage. The issue here isn’t the girl–it’s Gaetz and his lack of integrity. Anyway, the point is moot because Gaetz withdrew.

        1. How much did Bill Clinton pay for sex?

          “Clinton pays Paula Jones $850,000”
          Associated Press
          Wed 13 Jan 1999 13.15 EST

        2. You know this to be fact, Gigi? Please provide the evidence. I’ll be happy to take a look at it.

          Just because you cant find someone to fvck you for money, is no reason to take out your jealousy on Gaetz.

        3. “Anonymous: do you even get the point here? Gaetz paid $10K for sex with young women”

          How much did Joe Biden pay his daughter Ashley every time he fvcked her teenage ass in the shower, Gigi? Tell everybody how you discovered Bribery Biden had integrity as he was first raping his young age and then raping his teenage daughter?

          When you were defending that corrupt evil pervert, how do you claim to have “a point” right now? You’ve been good with perverts ever since the rapist BJ Clinton and his wife had Harvey Weinstein as a permanent house guest with their daughter. Followed by the Obama’s who were eager to have Harvey Weinstein in the White House spending a little private time with their daughters.

          You have zero standards, Gigi The Fire Ho Of Democrat Lies

  11. OT, Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration for AG.

    Q: will DeSantis appoint him to fill Rubio’s spot?

      1. Which is why it needs to be disclosed. Gaetz isn’t going away anytime soon. The good people of the great state of Florida need this information.

  12. OT

    Congress must “TAKE” the Google Search segment for public use after just compensation under the 5th Amendment.

    Google Search constitutes “general Welfare” or ALL WELL PROCEED.

    All Americans use Google Search as all Americans use roads, water, electricity, post offices, and other basic infrastructure and security in similar amounts and frequency that constitute and facilitate ALL WELL PROCEED, or “general Welfare.”

    So-called “antitrust” laws are unconstitutional.

    The 5th Amendment is constitutional.

  13. OT

    Did Christopher Wray plant the pipe bomb?

    Oh, they know who planted it alright.
    __________________________________________

    FBI Whistleblower Raises Questions about January 6 Pipe Bomb Investigation
    March 9, 2022
    Press Release

    Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray following a new whistleblower disclosure from a senior FBI special agent concerning the investigation into the pipe bombs placed near the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee on January 5, 2021. According to the special agent, on February 7, 2022—over a year after the placement of the bombs—the FBI’s Washington Field Office asked FBI field offices to canvass all confidential human sources nationwide for information about the individual and the crime. In part, the message asked that the canvass “include sources reporting on all [types of] threats” because the suspect’s “motive and ideology remain unknown.” The special agent explained that the WFO request was “unusual” because it was transmitted more than a year after the FBI had begun the investigation, and it raises questions about the progress and extent of the FBI’s investigation.

    https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/fbi-whistleblower-raises-questions-about-january-6-pipe-bomb-investigation

  14. BREAKING:

    Mike Johnson announces that male Republicans who have been castrated by Donald Trump may continue to use the men’s bathrooms.

    2. Johnson has clarified that although they may use the men’s bathrooms, they must sit when they only need to pee.

  15. I chafe when people speak of the Jan 6 Riot in a manner that does not explain the complete picture. At the front of the Capitol, facing the Mall, were riot police lined up shoulder to shoulder three deep. NO ONE was near them other than an odd person taking a picture.

    At the rear of the Capitol was a party atmosphere. It was windy and cool. People were milling around behind barrier fence that looks like a bicycle rack. A hat blew off over the fince and a Capitol Policeman picked it up and handed it back to the individual. There was no animosity, and no violence.

    Suddenly, a number of people turned and marched off towards the side of the building. When asked where they were going they did not reply. It was as if they had been given a signal and they were on the move. We now know many of these people were agent provocateurs. The actual number of non-government people involved in the fracas at the side of the building may have been 100.

    Later, after some negotiaion and communication with Supervisors, the Capitol Police opened the barriers and allowed people to enter the Capitol with the instructions they were to stay inside the ropes. A Guard stood at the door, as always, with a clicker to count the persons entering the building.

    The Jan 6 “Insurrection” in which Ashley Babbit was involved was a small number of individuals. They may have been egged on by government agents. We know the BLM guy next to Ashley Babbit did not belong at a MAGA Stop the Steal rally. When it was announced the Officer had a gun on the other side of a barricaded door, everyone stopped. It was in this moment of peace the officer executed Ms Babbit.

    Was there a riot? A small one took place to be sure. Would it have happened without the goading of government employees? Possibly not. The main point to be made is those few people causing trouble on the side of the Capitol were not asociated with the hundreds of peaceful people at the rear of the building or the untold thousands who were at the Trump Rally at the other end of the Mall (or at the Alex Jones Rally nearby).

    To ignore this fact gives ammunition to those who still consider it “Jan. 6th was a disgrace. However, it was a riot, not an insurrection. (It was certainly not an act of terrorism as claimed by some Democratic politicians). A protest at the Capitol resulted in a complete breakdown of the inadequate security precautions, a failure that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi privately admitted but only recently was disclosed.” It was a set-up.

    1. It was an attempt to keep DJT in office after loosing an election. That is the very definition of insurrection.

      1. “It was an attempt to keep DJT in office after loosing an election.”

        LMAO no, it wasn’t. You’re so silly.

        And its spelled “losing”, ya spastic idiot.

        That IQ is why you keep getting swiped left on Grindr.

      2. “It was an attempt to keep DJT in office after loosing an election. That is the very definition of insurrection.”

        Then I guess Marc Elias makes a living at insurrection. Moron.

    2. ” It was a set-up.”

      If it was a set-up, the disgrace does not fall on the demonstrators, but the officials who conspired to do that.

    3. I agree and also, there was an under prepared, poorly trained, green Capital Police who did not strictly follow police protocol. It was an example of government incompetence from a lack of leadership.

      Put a crowd together and it can be set off like a tinderbox.

      I despise huge crowds for that reason.

  16. First order of business with new administration. Arrest and charge the capitaol officer.

  17. There needs to be a thorough re-review of the whole incident including the actions of the J6 committee, the pipe bombs, and those arrested and convicted.

  18. According to the search results,
    It’s also worth mentioning that Gaetz has not been a practicing lawyer for many years, having entered politics and served as a U.S. Representative since 2017. His nomination as Attorney General by President-elect Donald Trump in 2024 would require him to return to active practice of law, which could be a significant challenge given his limited experience and lack of recent courtroom exposure.
    Summary:
    Gaetz has not been a practicing lawyer for many years and would require significant re-training and re-orientation to return to active practice as Attorney General.

    3. Gaetz understands the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Garland has trampled all over them.

  19. Apologies, quick OT: Jussie Smollett’s conviction just overturned by Illinois Supreme Court

    2. “Jussie Smollett’s conviction just overturned”

      I think it’s worth noting that this was apparently on a procedural error. Now, that is the way our jurisprudence is supposed to work (“guilty beyond”; burden is on prosecution to observe all the “p’s” and “q’s”) and I have no objection to that. OTOH it in no way means that he did not do all of that fraudulent shite of which he was accused, and that he deserves absolution in the court of public opinion.

  20. I also saw the video of the shooting and Ms Babbit was in a vulnerable position climbing through the broken window but in spite of the chaos occurring around the area of her entrance it appeared reasonable clear. It’s obvious that the police officer panicked when simple prudence might have directed him over to Ms. Babbitt where he helped her through the window, clamped cuffs on her wrists and arrested her. The firing of his weapon was a complete shock when it occurred since there seemed no apparent threat by a women climbing through a broken window with no visible weapon.
    This even will need a total redo on the investigation, especially since the Democrats seem to be fixated on hiding much of the testimony of their J6 committee. That in itself is suspicious since normally they would be screaming ALL their evidence to the rooftops if it supported their narrative.

    1. And police where standing off to the right along the wall watching all the banging on windows and Ashli climbing thru the window and THEY did nothing until after she was shot. They gave the shooter a thumbs up and went into action after. I saw it but try finding that video evidence now.

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