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President-elect Donald Trump reportedly reached out to the family of Ashli Babbitt this week to offer some love to the Jan. 6th defendants.

Babbitt’s mother, Micki Witthoeft, revealed this Wednesday night at what NBC News described as “a nightly vigil outside of the D.C. jail in support of Jan. 6 defendants.”

Witthoeft said that Trump had called her when, after she’d laid down flowers in honor of her daughter (see pic below), she took an Uber to the vigil with two other people.

“Tell them I love them, to keep their chins up,” Trump reportedly told her when she asked if he had a message for the Jan. 6th defendants.

“I know that he is still thinking about these guys, and I have a feeling it is going to be a happy day for us [when Trump assumes office],” Witthoeft herself said at Wednesday night’s vigil. “We have a lot to look forward to on Jan. 20, and God Bless America. Trump town, baby!”

Trump’s Wednesday phone call came two days after the attorney for former Proud Boys Chair Enrique Tarrio penned a letter to Trump asking for a full presidential pardon for his client, who’s serving 22 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy related to the Jan. 6th riot.

The attorney wrote that Tarrio is a “young man with an aspiring future ahead of him” who was falsely “portrayed throughout the Government’s case [against him] as a right-wing extremist that promoted a neo-fascist militant organization” when, in reality, he’s “nothing more than a proud American that believes in true conservative values.”

As for the other Jan. 6th defendants, there are over 1,270 of them who’ve been convicted, 700+ of whom have “already completed their sentences or were never given any jail or prison time to begin with,” NBC notes.

“While more than 1,580 defendants have already been arrested, that’s only roughly half of the total number of defendants who could have been charged for either entering the Capitol or assaulting law enforcement officers outside the building,” according to NBC News.

Meanwhile, Trump offered the latest sign that he intends to pardon the Jan. 6th defendants during a Tuesday press conference.

“You said on your first day of office you were going to pardon Jan. 6 defendants — are you planning to pardon those who were charged with violent offenses?” a reporter asked him during the presser.

“Well, we’re looking at it, and we have other people in there,” Trump replied, adding that there were some people who were “doing some bad things” during the Jan. 6th riot but “weren’t prosecuted,” whereas there were some people “that didn’t even walk into the building” who’re “in jail right now.”

“So we’ll be looking at the whole thing, but I’ll be making major pardons — yes,” he continued.

Trump also defended Babbitt, telling reporters that she “should have never been shot.”

“In fact, they say that she was trying to hold back the crowd, and the crowd was made up of a lot of different people, so we’ll see,” he added.

The incoming president also addressed the whole situation surrounding the pipe bombs that were left near the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters the day before the Jan. 6th riot.

“The FBI knows who it is,” he said of the still-uncaptured suspect. “The status of the FBI has gone down. We’re looking at it and other people are there, and 26, 28 people from the FBI came out very quietly, and nobody reported it. But they had people in some form related to the FBI. They had four or five people strongly related to the FBI. We have to find out about that.”

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