Trump Team Clashed With Official at Arlington National Cemetery - The New York Times
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Via: jbb • 4 months ago • 6 commentsBy: Chris Cameron Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman (nytimes)
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The military cemetery said in a statement that federal law prohibits political campaigning on the grounds, and that "there was an incident, and a report was filed."
Donald J. Trump during a wreath-laying ceremony on Monday at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
By Chris CameronJonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
Chris Cameron was traveling with Donald J. Trump during his visit to Arlington National Cemetery.
- Aug. 27, 2024
Members of Donald J. Trump's campaign team and an official at Arlington National Cemetery confronted each other during the former president's visit to the cemetery on Monday, the military cemetery said in a statement on Tuesday.
The altercation was prompted, according to Trump campaign officials, by the presence of a photographer in a section of the cemetery where American troops who were killed in recent wars are buried. The cemetery released a statement saying that federal law prohibits political campaigning or "election-related" activities within Army cemeteries, including by photographers.
An official with the cemetery tried to "physically block" members of Mr. Trump's team, Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesman, said in a statement. Mr. Cheung added that the cemetery official was "clearly suffering from a mental health episode" and that the campaign was prepared to release footage of the confrontation to support its account of the clash. The campaign did not provide that footage after several requests.
Chris LaCivita, a top Trump campaign adviser, added in a separate statement that the cemetery official was "a disgrace and does not deserve to represent the hollowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery."
Cemetery officials did not provide their own account of the encounter, saying instead that "there was an incident, and a report was filed."
The cemetery added that it had "reinforced and widely shared" to the Trump campaign the federal laws prohibiting campaign activities by photographers "or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate's campaign."
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MAGA tried to get out front this Trump Fiasco!
MAGA Fail!
So no wonder MAGAs were so frantically lying...
MAGA will only love him more.
I feel sorry for the military families that let themselves collaborate with this stunt.
Now that the rest of the story has come out it explains why MAGA were spinning like Dervish yesterday spewing all their MAGA False Grace!
Apparently Trump's MAGA assaulted employees of Arlington National Cemetery!
Trump has absolutely no respect for the fallen, unless he thinks he can get a good photo op for the campaign
Once Harris kicks his ass in November, we can hope that he slithers back to the golf course and the courtroom