In past articles of this blog, I speculated that the killing of Ashli Babbitt in the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, was a hoax. Eventually I renounced that speculation and removed most of those articles from this blog. I recognize that Babbitt indeed was killed.
A week ago, on January 3, 2022, the PBS website published an article titled Ashli Babbitt, Jan. 6 insurrectionist portrayed as martyr by some, had violent past. That article indicated to me that Babbitt suffered a mental disorder of some kind. Specifically, she seems to me to have been manic-depressive -- in other words, suffering from bipolar disorder.
The article tells how Ashli -- previously named Ashli McEntee -- had an affair with a man, Aaron Babbitt, who was involved in a six-year relationship with a woman named Celeste Norris. The McEntee-Babbitt affair broke up the Norris-Babbitt relationship. Celestine Norris dumped Aaron Babbitt, and then immediately Ashli McEntee moved in with Babbitt and eventually married him, thus becoming Ashli Babbitt. During the course of this romantic drama, Ashli physically attacked Norris in 2016. Some legal proceedings followed, but Babbitt was acquitted of the criminal charges.
Although Babbitt was acquitted of the criminal charges, she seems to be to have been an extraordinarily impulsive and violent person.
The article gave me a better perspective on Ashli Babbitt's fatal decision to climb through that broken window in the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.
