Felon Trump breaks the rules. PR stunt at Arlington National Cemetery

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 8.27.2024

The shameless felon Donald Trump’s push to be President has no ethical limits.

The felon guy is classless and clueless.

This is a felon awaiting sentencing who has ridiculed and disrespected veterans. Including the late Senator and presidential candidate John McCain. Who spent several years in a prisoner of war camp during the Vietnam war.

His latest sunken morality stunt was to bring a personal photographer to a wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. To commemorate the deaths of 13 American soldiers in Afghanistan three years ago.

National Public Radio (NPR) reported what happened.

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5091154/trump-arlington-cemetery

Two members of Donald Trump’s campaign staff had a verbal and physical altercation Monday with an official at Arlington National Cemetery, where the former president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony, NPR has learned.

A source with knowledge of the incident said the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried. The source said Arlington officials had made clear that only cemetery staff members would be authorized to take photographs or film in the area, known as Section 60.

When the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering Section 60, campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside, according to the source.

“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,” according to the statement. “Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants.”

Trump participated in an event to mark the third anniversary of a deadly attack on U.S. troops in Afghanistan as U.S. forces withdrew from the country; 13 U.S. service members were killed in the attack. The Trump campaign has blamed President Biden and Vice President Harris, now the Democratic presidential nominee, for the chaotic withdrawal.

In a statement to NPR, Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign’s spokesman, strongly rejected the notion of a physical altercation, adding: “We are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made.

“The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump’s team during a very solemn ceremony,” Cheung said in the statement.

The Trump campaign declined to make that footage immediately available.

In a statement to NPR, Arlington National Cemetery said it “can confirm there was an incident, and a report was filed.”