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Aaron Babbitt joined Greg Kelly on Newsmax this week to mark the five-year anniversary of a tragedy that still haunts patriotic Americans: the killing of his wife Ashli inside the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He spoke like a grieving husband and a proud American who refuses to let the official narratives erase what happened to his family. Viewers heard again the simple truth too many in the Washington establishment want to forget — she was a veteran, a patriot, and a life cut short while exercising her voice.
Ashli Babbitt was an Air Force veteran and, by every video and eyewitness account, unarmed when she was shot in the Speaker’s Lobby — a fact that has never sat right with millions of Americans. Her husband has repeatedly said she never got an opportunity to comply with any order before the shot rang out, and the officer who fired was never criminally charged. That absence of accountability has been a festering wound for those who believe the rule of law should apply equally to government actors as it does to ordinary citizens.
On the five-year mark, patriots turned out in the capital to honor Ashli’s memory and demand answers, holding a measured march and remembrance that underscored how many still feel justice was denied. Dozens marched from the Ellipse toward the Capitol, determined that her name not be turned into a footnote by a hostile media and a defensive bureaucracy. The scene was a reminder that the real victims of January 6 have often been the people whose lives were destroyed while the ruling class rewrote the story.
There have been small, grudging acknowledgments from Washington since — most notably reports that the federal government, under the current administration, reached a settlement in principle with the Babbitt family that would see nearly $5 million paid to resolve a wrongful-death claim. For families like the Babbitts, money can never bring back a loved one, but this settlement is a tacit admission that the initial official handling of Ashli’s death was deeply flawed. The swamp moves slowly, but when it finally bends toward accountability it proves the pressure of truth and public outrage can force results.
Even the Air Force, which once denied full military funeral honors to Ashli, has since reversed course and granted those honors after reviewing the circumstances and the passage of time. That reversal shows the power of persistence by a grieving husband and supporters who refused to let their country forget a daughter of the Republic. It’s a small vindication for a family who watched the military bureaucracy try to write their daughter out of honor and memory.
Make no mistake: the real scandal is how long it took for any of this to happen. From the immediate clearing of the officer by DOJ investigators to the years of stonewalling by agencies that owe Americans transparency, the system protected its own while ordinary citizens paid the price. Patriots should be furious — not because of celebration of chaos, but because justice delayed is too often justice denied when the accused wears a badge or carries power.
Aaron Babbitt’s steady dignity on national television is a rebuke to the cynics and a call to action for every American who believes in fairness and the Constitution. We owe him and Ashli more than silence: we owe them the truth, accountability, and a refusal to let their sacrifice be sanitized by politicians looking the other way. As conservatives, we will keep Ashli’s memory alive, keep asking the hard questions, and keep demanding that Washington answer for its failures to ordinary Americans.
