Trump administration to pay millions to family of Jan. 6 rioter killed by police

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : His administration has moved to fire prosecutors and identify FBI agents involved in the investigation, open investigations into their handling of cases, and erase evidence and public statements about one of the largest criminal investigations in U.S. history from Justice Department websites.
41% : The settlement comes after Trump returned to office casting Babbitt as a martyr and seeking to rewrite the history of the assault on the Capitol as a heroic act of collective patriotism, not a violent effort to overturn an election.
31% : Trump pardoned nearly all of about 1,600 people charged in the riot, including at least 379 charged with assaulting police or media members.
28% : On March 25, Trump said in an interview with the conservative Newsmax cable outlet that he was considering whether to establish a compensation fund for pardoned rioters.
19% : In a statement in 2021, Trump said he had questioned why the officer who shot her was "getting away with murder.
15% : In 2023, then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) angered Trump, saying of the person who shot Babbitt, "I think the police officer did his job."

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