Dem Rep. who Defends Wife Beating MS-13 Gangbanger Calls Ashli Babbitt Domestic Terrorist

An attention-seeking Democratic congressman from central Florida notorious for grandstanding to promote a far-left agenda has taken his extremist rhetoric to a new level by referring to Ashli Babbitt, the United States Air Force veteran shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, as a domestic terrorist. The lawmaker, Maxwell Frost who represents Florida’s 10th district, is well known for self-absorbed antics to gain media attention, even when it does not involve his constituents or the area he was elected to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. For instance, Frost recently visited the deported illegal immigrant gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador even though the migrant lived in Maryland and has no ties to the Sunshine State or Frost’s Orlando district. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that Garcia is a member of the famously violent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang with a history of human trafficking and that his wife petitioned for a restraining order after he punched her. Nevertheless, Frost continues to advocate for the violent gang member and describes his deportation as the “Trump Administration’s government-funded kidnapping rampage.”

A self-described “organizer and activist,” Frost was part of Hillary Clinton’s staff during her failed 2016 presidential campaign then worked for socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. The second-term congressman was also an organizer at the leftist American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) advocating for a measure to reinstate voting rights for felons and he has championed abortion rights for Floridians. He also served as a national director for March for Our Lives, one of the largest youth-led political movements to fight for comprehensive gun safety laws. After last month’s deportation of a University of Florida student guilty of multiple offenses including driving with a suspended license and an expired vehicle tag, Frost issued a statement saying the 27-year-old Colombian was the “latest victim in ICE’s [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] kidnapping spree.” In the press release posted on his official House website the legislator also calls President Donald Trump a “criminal.”

In Frost’s latest publicity-seeking shenanigan he claims Babbitt is a “domestic terrorist who attempted to overthrow our government via a violent insurrection at our nation’s Capitol.” The lawmaker was apparently outraged that the Trump administration settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch on behalf of Babbitt’s estate and her husband against the federal government for the shooting, by then-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, that ended her life. “The administration agreeing to pay her family $5 million of taxpayer money is disgraceful,” Frost writes in a social media post this week, which includes a magazine story on the settlement with a headline that reads: “Rewriting History: Trump Is Giving Millions in Taxpayer Money to Family of Rioter Killed on Jan. 6.” The article is written by a politics reporter who covers “far-right media and misinformation” and served as a director at the leftist nonprofit Media Matters for America that receives funding from leftwing billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundations.

The reality is that Babbitt was a patriot who served and loved her country. She wanted to show her support for President Trump’s America First policies and attended the Jan. 6 rally before walking to the Capitol peacefully. Two undercover Metropolitan Police Department officers followed close behind Babbitt as she climbed the stairs to the West Terrace and entered the Capitol on the Senate side where she encountered a female Capitol Police officer, who directed her to walk south toward the House side. Babbitt complied, arriving at the hallway outside the main door to the House chamber, where demonstrators gathered. Two individuals dislodged the glass panels in the lobby doors and the right door sidelight. Lt. Byrd, the incident commander for the House that day, shot the unarmed Babbitt as she raised herself up into the opening of the right door sidelight. Byrd was not in uniform, did not identify himself as a police officer or otherwise make his presence known to Babbitt nor did he give her any warnings or commands before shooting her dead.

Byrd later confessed that he shot Babbitt before seeing her hands or assessing her intentions or even identifying her as female. Her hands were up in the air, empty, and in plain view of Byrd and other officers in the lobby. The disgraced cop had a history of disciplinary issues, including leaving the Glock 22 he used to shoot Babbitt in a public bathroom at the Capitol Visitor Center complex that sees thousands of visitors daily. Byrd also had his police powers revoked several times prior to Babbitt’s shooting, for failing to meet firearms qualification requirements and shooting into a stolen, moving vehicle with juvenile occupants, resulting in stray bullets from his firearm striking nearby homes. Frost fails to even mention Byrd’s unsettling history as a law enforcement officer, instead disgracing the memory of a deceased patriot who served her country. Combined with the ardent defense of a wife beating MS-13 gangbanger, the congressman has recently displayed appalling behavior unbecoming of an elected official.