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Ashli Babbitt embraced QAnon and endorsed theory storming Capitol would bring 'storm' of violence
Former US Air Force veteran was excited about Washington DC rally, and predicted a ‘storm’ before her deathhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/ashli-babbitt-capitol-trump-qanon-b1784388.html
A QAnon conspiracy theorist who died in the riot on the Capitol, Ashli Babbitt, was a retired US Air Force veteran who had planned to help create a “storm” in DC. The 35-year-old supported US president Donald Trump, and was shot dead inside Congress by Capitol police on Wednesday. According to reports, the Californian woman was caught up in the extremist QAnon conspiracy that claims a criminal “deep state” is working against Mr Trump. The president has said in the past that QAnon supporters “are people that love our country”.
Babbitt, who believed that to be true, also supported claims that November’s election was “stolen” or “rigged” against the president. She wanted to march on Washington DC alongside other Trump supporters, and posted excitedly that a “storm” was about to arrive. Among those who support the conspiracy, the protest was said to have indicated that “The Storm” was imminent, which they believed was the day Mr Trump would overcome the so-called “deep state”.
A QAnon expert named Alex Bradley Newhouse told Insider that with the president sill in power, Wednesday would likely be seen as an event that will eventually lead "to the apocalyptic conclusion, the Storm, which theoretically involves mass arrests, military tribunals, and executions throughout the world." “Nothing will stop us,” Babbitt wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. “They can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon [Washington] DC in less than 24 hours… dark to light!”
She was shot by Capitol police as she attempted to break into the House chamber, among others rioters who scaled walls and stormed Congress on Wednesday. She had moments beforehand been seen with a Trump flag draped around her, and smashed a window in a hallway, it was reported. Babbitt was among five people who have died as a result, after a Capitol Police officer was confirmed to have passed away on Friday.
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And now they have. Time for their ISP to give them the heave ho. 
