Putin Implies The US Government May Have Assassinated Ashli Babbit

In Vladimir Putin’s interview with NBC he did something most Republicans shy away from and that’s talking about Ashli Babbit’s death on January 6th.

It all started when NBC interviewer Keir Simmons asked Putin why his opposition leader Alexei Navalny was jailed to which Putin replied “We have a saying: ‘Don’t be mad at the mirror if you are ugly”.

Putin continued and asked Simmons a question of his own and said “did you order the assassination of the woman who walked into the Congress and who was shot and killed by a policeman?”.

The woman Putin was referring to was Air Force Veteran Ashli Babbit who was shot dead for entering the Capitol Building.

Check out the moment he said it here:

WATCH: Russian President Putin calls out the US government for politically persecuting the Jan. 6 mob and provocatively implies the US government might have assassinated Ashli Babbit. pic.twitter.com/AUx9FBdEfK

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The Daily Mail didn’t hold back and reported these details:

Vladimir Putin has accused the US of ‘persecuting political opinions’ for arresting the MAGA mob at the Capitol siege, ahead of his summit with Joe Biden on Wednesday.

The Russian president was asked about his jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an interview filmed in Moscow last week before his meeting with Biden in Switzerland.

And he replied by hitting back at the US, equating the arrest of Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol with his treatment of Navalny.

He said: ‘We have a saying: ‘Don’t be mad at the mirror if you are ugly,'” he said. “It has nothing to do with you personally. But if somebody blames us for something, what I say is, why don’t you look at yourselves? You will see yourselves in the mirror, not us.’

‘You are presenting it as dissent and intolerance toward dissent in Russia. We view it completely differently,’ he told US broadcaster NBC News.

He then pointed at the January 6 MAGA raid on the Capitol, saying: ‘Do you know that 450 individuals were arrested after entering the Congress? … They came there with political demands.’

Putin also reiterated denials that the Kremlin was behind last year’s poisoning of Navalny with a nerve agent that nearly killed him.

‘We don’t have this kind of habit, of assassinating anybody,’ Putin claimed.

‘Did you order the assassination of the woman who walked into the Congress and who was shot and killed by a policeman?’ Putin said, referring to Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as she tried to climb through a window that led to the House floor.

Putin is doing more for Ashli Babbit than any Republican who is in Congress or the Senate. Sad.

— Lavern Spicer 🇺🇸 (@lavern_spicer) June 15, 2021

Putin is speaking the truth about our government! Ashli Babbit was an unarmed American veteran 🇺🇸 and she deserves justice. God bless her family for the pain they are going through. ♥️ https://t.co/WcJzJqu4YD

— buckeye♥️blessed 🇺🇸 (@jodie4buckeyes) June 15, 2021

The Associated Press got the scoop too:

“You are presenting it as dissent and intolerance toward dissent in Russia. We view it completely differently,” he said in an interview with NBC News broadcast Monday. He then pointed to the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington when protesters barged into the Capitol to try to halt the count of electoral votes to certify Biden’s election victory over Donald Trump.

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“Do you know that 450 individuals were arrested after entering the Congress? … They came there with political demands,” he said.

Although the protests that erupted across Russia after Navalny’s arrest in January were unsanctioned, demonstrators were largely peaceful and did not enter government buildings or cause significant property damage, unlike the Capitol riot.

Putin also reiterated denials that the Kremlin was behind last year’s poisoning of Navalny with a nerve agent that nearly killed him.

“We don’t have this kind of habit, of assassinating anybody,” Putin said.

“Did you order the assassination of the woman who walked into the Congress and who was shot and killed by a policeman?” Putin said, referring to Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as she tried to climb through a window that led to the House floor.

While Putin is demanding answers for who killed Ashli Babbit the entire GOP has been silent on the topic.