U.S. to pay nearly $5 million to family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/19/ashli-babbitt-lawsuit-settlement/

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President Donald Trump’s administration has agreed to pay nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt to settle a lawsuit brought by the estate of the Trump supporter who was fatally shot by police when she tried to storm the House Speaker’s lobby during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Babbitt’s family filed the wrongful death lawsuit in early 2024, seeking $30 million. Lawyers for both sides told a judge this month that they had reached a settlement in principle, reversing the Justice Department’s earlier opposition in the case, which had been set for trial in July 2026.

No final deal had been signed and terms were not disclosed at the May 2 hearing, before Judge Ana C. Reyes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia directed both sides to update the court this Thursday.

Two people briefed on the matter said the Justice Department has agreed to pay just under $5 million to Babbitt’s family, with about one third to go to their attorneys, who include the conservative group Judicial Watch and Alexandria, Virginia, lawyer Richard Driscoll. The two people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a pending court matter.

Babbitt’s lawyers and a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office for Washington, D.C., which is handling the case with the Justice Department’s civil division, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday.

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This is who the fascists are legitimizing

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Criminals are pardoned, paid off, and appointed to high office.

The new American value system.

We are being led by psychopaths.

[Walleye]

2. Trump should pay it if she didn't believe his lies.She'd probably still be alive today.

[jls4561]

3. Disgusting. Trump lied, a mentally unstable person believed the lies.

She violently attacked a government building and was attempting to attack her government representatives. And the treasonous thugs now in charge give her family $5 million.

Surprised they aren’t throwing in a plane.

[mikeysnot]

4. US TAXPAYERS to pay out

To a criminal insurrectionist family.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Every bankrobber emboldened

"Louie, let's go overthrow a bank."

[The Roux Comes First]

6. This Ought to Be Paid Out of the Gazillions He Has Already Ripped Us Out of

Or maybe his greens fees.

The American people, or at least the savvy ones, should be under no obligation. Red ball-cap, your turn!

[newdeal2]

7. Why doesn't he allow J6ers into Mar-a-lago?

He should give them free membership. They are such outstanding people and have been through so much.

[hatrack]

8. When does the canonization process begin?

[sinkingfeeling]

9. How much did the US pay the Capitol police officers who were injured on

the same day? The suit should have been thrown out of court since it was a justified shooting of someone committing a crime.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. She assumed the known risk.

The Estate would have lost in court.

[spanone]

11. Five million for storming the capitol? Crime really does pay.

[RJ-MacReady]

12. Fuck her

And fuck her mother too. Im glad she was put down. She deserved that bullet and frankly the police should have opened fire into the crowd the moment they broke into the building.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. Trump administration to pay $5 million to family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt

Babbit was a terrorist

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-5-million-ashli-babbitt-jan-6-rioter-who-was-killed/

The Trump administration will pay nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt, the Trump supporter who was shot and killed while in the mob breaching the House Speaker's Lobby on Jan. 6, 2021.

Outgoing U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger confirmed to CBS News he was informed that the Justice Department has agreed to make the payment to Babbitt's family to settle its wrongful death claim.

Manger told CBS News he learned of the settlement amount "a few weeks ago" and the same day sent a message to the entire force expressing his dismay.

"I told them I was extremely disappointed, and I disagreed with the Department of Justice's decision to settle this lawsuit," he said in a phone call on Monday.

The parties had reached a settlement in principle in early May in the $30 million civil suit filed by the conservative activist group Judicial Watch on behalf of Babbitt's estate, including her late husband.

[mr715]

14. How efficient. nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Jeffries on the $5m payout to Ashli Babbitt's family

Jeffries on the m payout to Ashli Babbitt's family: "This settlement is just an extension of what they've previously done, which is to pardon violent felons who violently attacked the Capitol on January 6, including police officers."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-05-19T20:30:32.270Z

[electric_blue68]

16. Oh, fuck that! She Went Through the g-d damn Window too near Congresional...

Access, especially if more people had gone right through, and overpowered that guard!

[Emile]

17. No money for the hungry, but they can give away our tax dollars

to the family of a traitor.

[Jack Valentino]

19. Right is wrong and wrong is right--- welcome to Trump 2.0

or as I now like to refer to it, Deep 647

[Jack Valentino]

18. WTF??? Well, how much are we paying to the estate of Stonewall Jackson,

Jeb Stuart and John Wilkes Booth ??!!!!



I probably shouldn't give them any ideas.... !

[LudwigPastorius]

20. I'd be all for this, if...

the money went, instead of to her family, to a program that taught kids there are consequences for bad decisions.

Call it the Federal FAFO Fund.