Trump demands justice for Ashli Babbitt after phoning her mom and husband: Ex-President says 'we know' who the shooter is and there would have been 'riots all over America' if it had happened to the 'other side'

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he had spoken to the family of Ashli Babbitt, the Trump supporter killed by a Capitol Police officer as a mob rushed the Speaker's Lobby during the January 6 Capitol riot. 

'I spoke to the wonderful mother and devoted husband of Ashli Babbitt, who was murdered at the hands of someone who should never have pulled the trigger of his gun,' Trump said in a statement, adding, 'We know who it is.'

The ex-president went on saying, 'If this happened on the "other side," there would be riots all over America and yet, there are far more people represented by Ashli, who truly loved America, than there are are on the other side.' 

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he had spoken to the mother and husband of Ashli Babbitt, the January 6 rioter who was shot and killed by a member of the Capitol Police 

A Capitol Police officer shot Ashli Babbitt on January 6 as she tried to climb through an interior window into the Speaker's Lobby. She later died from the gunshot wound 

Trump was likely alluding to his false claims that he won more votes in 2020 than President Joe Biden, who beat him in the popular vote by more than 7 million.  

'The Radical Left haters cannot be allowed to get away with this,' Trump continued. 'There must be justice!'    

Trump's statement echoes a number of calls from those on the political right to have the identity of the officer who shot Babbitt released publicly.  

In right-wing circles, Babbitt has turned into a martyr of January 6, with the ex-president's allies turning the rioter into a victim and shifting some blame from Trump - who was impeached in the House for inciting an insurrection - to the unnamed Capitol Police officer.  

In the past, Trump has stoked Babbitt-centered conspiracy theories by suggesting that officer remained anonymous because he or she guarded a high-profile Democratic lawmaker. 

'I will tell you they know who shot Ashli Babbitt. They're protecting that person,' Trump told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo last month. 'I've heard also that it was the head of security for a certain high official - a Democrat - and we'll see, because it's going to come out. It's going to come out.' 

The Department of Justice announced in April it would not pursue criminal charges against the police officer, identified only as a member of the U.S. Capitol Police. 

Former President Donald Trump sent out a statement Wednesday afternoon saying he had spoken to family members of Ashli Babbitt 

Police officers fight with the MAGA mob outside the U.S. Capitol during the riot on January 6  

Other law enforcement agencies, including D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, had responded to the January 6 riot.  

The investigation found that Babbitt was among a group of rioters trying to get into the Speaker's Lobby as members of Congress were being evacuated from the House chamber.    

'Members of the mob attempted to break through the doors by striking them and breaking the glass with their hands, flagpoles, helmets, and other objects,' a DOJ release said. 

Three U.S. Capitol Police officers had positioned themselves between the doors and the mob, but the rioters' behavior forced them to pull back. 

'As members of the mob continued to strike the glass doors, Ms. Babbitt attempted to climb through one of the doors where glass was broken out,' the release continued. 

'An officer inside the Speaker's Lobby fired one round from his service pistol, striking Ms. Babbitt in the left shoulder, causing her to fall back from the doorway and onto the floor,' it said. 

Babbitt was treated by an emergency response team at the Capitol and later died at the Washington Hospital Center. 

A House select committee and several Senate committees are looking into the January 6 riot, but plans for a bipartisan 9/11-style commission to probe it went out the window when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told Senate Republicans not to support it.