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In a racially tinged Fact Social publish Thursday evening, former President Donald Trump as soon as once more smeared the Capitol police officer who shot Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt.
Trump wrote that he disagreed with Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who informed a reporter earlier within the day that Lt. Michael Byrd “did his job.”
Regardless of having been exonerated by the Capitol Police, the D.C. Metropolitan Police and the Justice Division, Byrd was nonetheless branded a “coward” and a “thug” by Trump.
“Regardless of making an attempt to maintain him nameless, shielded, and guarded, this MISFIT proudly confirmed up on NBC Faux Nightly Information ‘bragging’ in regards to the killing,” Trump complained.
Byrd informed NBC in August 2021 that he and his household had obtained demise threats within the previous months. He used his firearm as a “final resort,” he stated, including that he “saved numerous lives.”