
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday night slammed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for defending Lt. Michael Byrd, the Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt on January 6th, 2021.
Hours after McCarthy said that Byrd was "doing his job" by trying to defend lawmakers from Trump-backed rioters on January 6th, Trump took to Truth Social to call out McCarthy for defending an officer whom Trump decried as a "thug."