Trump to give $5 million of your money to the family of terrorist

By the time the sun rose over Washington this morning, the Department of Justice had already decided to fork over nearly $5 million of your money to the family of Ashli Babbitt—the pro-Trump rioter who got herself shot dead trying to break into the Speaker’s Lobby on January 6, 2021.

Lisa McCormick, the firebrand New Jersey Democrat who’s spent years railing against the establishment from the left, is one of the few voices howling into the void about this insanity.

“This is a disgrace,” McCormick snarled over the phone, her voice sharp enough to cut glass. “We’re rewarding a terrorist’s family while cops who got their heads bashed in that day are still waiting for justice. What kind of message does that send? That if you storm the Capitol for your cult leader, your kin gets a payday?”

She’s not wrong.

Babbitt wasn’t some innocent bystander. She was part of the mob that smashed its way into the Capitol, chanting about hanging Mike Pence, hunting down lawmakers, and turning the seat of American democracy into a crime scene.

She was climbing through a broken window, seconds away from reaching the chamber where members of Congress were barricaded like prey. The cop who shot her? The feds cleared him. Twice. Said he did his job. Said he probably saved lives.

But now, in the grand tradition of Washington bending over backward to appease the worst people, the DOJ is cutting a check. No explanation. No apology to the officers who still wake up screaming from the memories of that day.

Just a cool $5 million handed to Babbitt’s family like it’s some kind of consolation prize for a failed attempt at treason.

And where’s the outrage? Crickets from most of the Democrats. Silence from the Republicans who spent years pretending they cared about law and order.

McCormick—the progressive who’s spent the last decade telling both parties to go to hell—had the guts to say what everyone else is thinking: “This isn’t justice. It’s a ransom payment to the MAGA mob.”

Meanwhile, Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, who shot and killed Ashli Babbit during the Capitol riot is still hiding. Still getting death threats. Still waiting for someone in power to have his back the way they’ve got Babbitt’s.

Joining McCormick is departing U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger, noting that a DOJ investigation found no wrongdoing by police.

“I am extremely disappointed and disagree with this settlement,” said Manger, who is set to retire later this month. “This settlement sends a chilling message to law enforcement nationwide, especially to those with a protective mission like ours.”

But in this town, the rules don’t apply to everyone. Break a few windows, try to overthrow the government, and you get a memorial.

Do your job, stop an insurrectionist, and you get a target on your back.

Violent criminals who attack police officers are called heroes.

Every last one of the 1,500 rioters, insurrectionists, pipe-bomb planters, cop-beaters, and would-be lynchers who stormed the Capitol that day were pardoned. Wiped clean. Like it never happened.

Donald Trump did it with a flick of his wrist. No hearings. No apologies. Just a proclamation calling them "patriots" and the whole bloody mess a "grave injustice."

And who were these patriots?

There was Peter Schwartz, who had 38 prior convictions—for beating his wife, for terrorizing cops, for throwing lit cigarettes at a woman’s eyes—before he pepper-sprayed officers on the Capitol steps. Fourteen years, the judge gave him. Now? Gone.

There was Edward Richmond, who shot an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in the head while serving in the Army. Dishonorable discharge. Three years in a military prison. Then he shows up on January 6 swinging a baton at cops. Four years, the feds gave him. Now? Erased.

There was Kasey Hopkins, who raped a woman so viciously he choked her until she couldn’t see, then urinated in her mouth. He got seven years for that. Then he stormed the Capitol, talking about "civil war." Four months, they gave him this time. Now? A free man.

And then there were the others—the child predators, the domestic abusers, the guys with arsenals in their basements and warrants in their past. All pardoned. All walking around like heroes.

Meanwhile, Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell stood there on January 6 with his shield up, his body between the mob and the people’s house, and they came at him like animals.

They beat him with flagpoles. They crushed his hand. They sprayed him with chemicals until his skin burned and his eyes swelled shut. He begged for backup that never came. And when it was over, he had to retire—broken, because of what they did to him. Gonell can’t hold his kid’s hand without pain.

"I nearly lost my life defending the Constitution," said Gonell, who noted that he is an immigrant, born in the Dominican Republic.

This is justice in Trump’s America. The thugs get medals. The cops get early retirement. And the rest of us? We get to watch as the men who tried to overthrow the government shake hands with the president who let them off the hook and fork over millions in cash to the family of a dead terrorist.

Ironically, Congressmen Pete Stauber (MN-08), Troy Nehls (TX-22), Clay Higgins (LA-03), and Gabe Evans (CO-08) used National Police Week to accuse President Joe Biden and Democrats of turning their backs on law enforcement officers on May 15, 2025, then they voted in favor of a Republican plan to cut Medicaid by an estimated $625 billion over the next 10 years.

Welcome to America. Where the terrorists get paid, and the heroes get left in the dirt.