Team Trump didn’t like the Arlington story, so they rewrote it

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/donald-trump-arlington-cemetery-scandal-story-rewrote-election-2024-rcna169290

24 Comments

  1. Donald Trump was heard muttering to himself,
    *I could* ~~*shoot someone on Fifth Avenue*~~ shit on an Arlington grave *and not lose any voters*.

  2. Say it enough, some people will believe it. Or just not care enough anymore to deny it.

    We see now evidence that sometimes history is written by big losers.

  3. sentimentaldiablo on

    posters on here yesterday kept trying to foist the wreath laying cermony pictures as the issue, saying “What? Biden and Harris did the same thing!” and ignoring the idiot shots trump grinning and giving a thumbs up over a dead soldiers grave, pretending they never even happened.

  4. Don’t presidential candidates have to submit to some mental health evaluations? For the sake of the country, please!

  5. The spin they wanted it to take was “Biden skipped an event honoring the fallen” but that was preempted by the scandal, but Fox News still ran with the original plan and it makes them look like total stooges.

  6. This is the GOP and Orange Turds playbook they have been using since 2016 to rewrite the narrative and history to suit them. You saw this with the Russia Investigation, Jan 6, Etc.

    You have media like Fox Entertainment and others who also run with the narrative as well. Then it’s backed by the GOP.

    Remember when the Orange Turd after his inauguration said it was the largest crowd in history? Or that it didn’t rain? All of those claims were disputed by photo evidence of the crowd size and people in rain coats.

    The same with the Mueller Investigation. They all claimed zero ties with Russia. Yet you have emails and investigations from the GOP senate committee proving otherwise and there was interference by Russia.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if they call it a hoax and say that the Orange turd wasn’t there and that the deep state used AI to make it look like he was at Arlington.

    Vote Blue in November.

  7. definitivescribbles on

    That pavement must have been hell on his bone spurs. Glad he was able to take a break from the soft fairways of Magalago to shit on our fallen heroes. /s

  8. 7-11Armageddon on

    This is the entire problem

    Reddit spends every day posting bullshit newsweek articles saying that Harris is winning this thing and Trump is an insane bozo.

    But their side only sees FOX News and their version of reality.

    Journalism is dead, profit driven and tribalized. We are all fucked.

  9. The irony is the whole point of that was to make Biden/Harris look bad and it totally backfired. Trump setup the Afghan exit after he lost the election. He made sure it was rushed and would be a mess. The plan was always to use this as dirt against Biden, even before these people died. Their lives were used as a PR stunt for a potential future presidential run, which we are seeing come to fruition right now. Very sad.

  10. And then the NYT wrote down what Trump said and went and asked Harris what she thought and wrote that down and framed it as a political dispute between the two candidates rather than an absolutely shameless display by the GOP that it absolutely is.

  11. guyincognito69420 on

    and the rubes will believe it. I used to wonder how dictators got away with their shit and assumed people were just afraid of them. Turns out a major part of it is a lot of people are just really stupid.

  12. I will never, ever, ever, be OK with the fact that the MSM just runs headlines about this without calling out their MF BS.

    It’s unbearable. STOP. STOP. STOP. Call it out, ignore it, frame it properly as venal transparent juvenile BS. STOP GIVING IT OXYGEN JFC.

  13. Isn’t this the 3rd revision? 1.) A staffer had a metal health episode. 2.) It was an official event and Harris didn’t even go to it. 3.) It’s a fake story that Harris made up.
    That’s not including the original thinking it was good for him….

  14. And we only know this because their lie is disseminated around the world as a newsworthy counterpoint in real time.

    Not as the absurd lie it is, as confirmed by the extraordinary public rebuke of the former President by the U.S. Army, but as a newsworthy denial that is, in fact, a known lie.

    Somethin’ wrong, yo.

  15. StarHelixRookie on

    Something that is getting kinda lost here.

    So you have 13 Servicemen who were killed during the Afghan withdrawal. Tragic yes. Of those you have these two families Trump is spending all his time with and visiting their graves and having them at rallies (presumably there are 11 other families not included)…

    *When he was president*, under his command there were many more servicemen killed. There were even the Civil Affairs group in Niger (which the Trump administration famously got into a beef with of all things).

    Is Trump visiting their graves?
    Why is he completely obsessed with the 13 people who were killed in 2021, but not any of the dozens killed in the years prior?

    You see what I’m getting at here?

  16. ForeverSquirrelled42 on

    This amoral mother fucker needs to go, along with his brainwashed army of morons. This man has already done sooooo much to dishonor and disrespect this country and its citizens that I didn’t think he could do worse. Welp….I was very wrong. It takes a special sort of fucked up individual to use the memory of a fallen soldier for their own personal gain.

    This man has no honor and is unfit to be president. More so now than the last time, so PLEASE get out there and vote. Also, encourage the folks that haven’t registered to vote yet to do so and hit the poles in November. Especially the ones that are against Trump. They only have until October, so it’s crunch time! Let make sure this prick suffers another L so we can watch him have a meltdown about it.