Trump Team Clashed With Arlington Cemetery Official: Report |
Members of Trump’s campaign staff had a physical altercation with a cemetery official during the former president’s visit on Monday, NPR reported
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-team-arlington-cemetery-official-clash-1235089745/
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Trump is a cynical asshole who only values dead soldiers as political props? Next you’re going to tell me he’s a convicted felon or something.
Release the video
Arlington officials made it clear only cemetery staff members were authorized to take photographs in the area known as Section 60. Despite this, the source told NPR, two Trump campaign staffers pushed and verbally attacked the cemetery official who was trying to prevent them from entering and taking photos in the area.
Trump has free bodyguards and you know he thinks he can do anything he wants to …
He wouldn’t have been there if it weren’t for the photo op. Rules be damned, he’s got to pander to his base
Would this be the same Trump who refused to visit an American cemetery ~~During D Day commemeorations~~ **WW1 Commemorations** because he considered dead soldiers *Losers* and because he didn’t want to get his hair wet because it was raining?
President bonespurs ×5. Only visits soldiers’ graves when there is something he thinks he can exploit.
It should be noted that he was there as damage control after insulting Medal of Honor recipients and while there also gave a grinning thumbs up at a fallen soldiers grave. I know there are shameful MAGA lurking here that are too cowardly to respond to these stories, so I’ll say it again: fuck you, traitors
If there was a physical altercation: *PRESS. CHARGES.*
Stop giving these shitbags a pass on criminal activity.
Taking bets: this story won’t show up on FOX News. Anybody want to bet?
I want everyone to look at that thumbs up picture
Look at the faces, look at the thumbs
Now look at the little girl with dark hair, that misses her father
This should not have been allowed.
If another country’s leader did this, we would be calling them uncivilized savages. Taking unapproved photo ops with dead war veterans should be the worst thing trump has ever done and yet it might not even be top 10 because he is subhuman filth.
So, Trump needed photos inside the embalming room?
Clashes with Arlington Cemetery officials are concerning, given the place’s importance.
“Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries…” Trump campaign’s spokesman, Steven Cheung: they “are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made.”… SoOooOo: Did you try to take photos where you were not supposed to? NO and if you push it we will release the video that proves we didn’t…
Trump’s people are disgusting…they just reflect the leader. Not sure how anyone saw this and thinks he actually cares about the military or veterans.
All MAGA cares about is how their fucking cult leader was there “honoring” the veterans.
Rules mean nothing to them.
Neither does integrity.
Or respect.
Or decency.
Or honor.
Or sacrifice.
The Trump campaign response was something along the lines of “a mentally ill person having an episode caused this” referring to the staff at the cemetery.
Then they said they had video and would release it if it became an issue and then refused to release it.
I usually don’t get into politics because I hate all the bullshit but I have friends buried there and it would be swell if people didn’t use their gravesite to try to score points with whatever the fuck that was.
The “why werent Biden and Harris there” crowd has certainly been occupied with ignoring this
CNN person reporting on this has said repeatedly that “this is a he said, she said” deal.
No it’s fucking not!
The laws about Arlington National Cemetery are very clear about this.
“Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign.”
Sounds like bail should be revoked.
I will reiterate a point I made previously. Fuck you! You’re a draft dodging traitor.
For the maga people. This is your leader. Smiling giving a thumbs up at the grave of a fallen soldier after bullying people into getting access.
If you vote for him you are not a patriot. Justify it however you like but that man is against America.
Trump’s spokesperson, Steven Cheung, who’s a little shit, said the staffer at Arlington who tried to block members of the campaign was having a mental breakdown. I hope Cheung goes down in flames with his boss.
where was Trump’s Arlington photo op when he abandoned troops in Niger?
The shame he brings on our country only deepens. Harris / Waltz then he lives in a prison cell
Every single thing he does demeans us as a country.
I was there last November to see President Kennedy’s grave during the 60th anniversary of his death, and as you can imagine it is a very VERY solemn place, just walking the grounds.
Lots of school tours and teenagers a little too young to get that, but walking the path to the Tomb of the Unknowns late in the day, overcast clouds and total silence. I clicked my camera at the Tomb of the Unknowns and just the sound of the shutter felt disrespectful.
Charges damned! PRESS CHARGES!
Keep this POS away from our military!
Do you know why Tim Walz calls these people “weird?” Because “fucking pricks” would get censored in the media.
Just another thing when you bring it up Trump supporters will just call you brainwashed.
It’s exhausting dealing with these assholes. There is literally nothing Trump can do wrong, and literally nothing a Democrat can do right. Yet we’re the brainwashed ones to them.
Trump continues to piss on our military members and vets.
A *physical* altercation? What the fuck? These guys are literal children. Imagine being a grown ass adult and getting into a physical altercation at a campaign event. Goodness gracious.
His campaign said this was a lie. Why would these cemetery officials make this up? To get death threats from radical MAGA fans?
I really wish one of those Marines that guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was around to…explain…to the treasonous piece of shit’s staffer that shoved an Arlington Cemetary employee what an absolutely bad idea that was.
He is objectively such a giant piece of shit.
Prior statements from the GOP nominee:
Trump does not react well to seeing severely wounded Army Captain Luis Avila singing “God Bless America” at a welcome event for the new chairman. “Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded”
This is who was talking about.
https://www.garysinisefoundation.org/specially-adapted-smart-homes/luis-avila
In the statement, Kelly is confirming, on the record, a number of details in a 2020 story in The Atlantic by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, including Trump turning to Kelly on Memorial Day 2017, as they stood among those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, and saying, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
He should never be allowed near a government building ever again. Let’s all vote please.