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Donald Trump’s campaign was warned about not taking photographs before an altercation at Arlington National Cemetery during a wreath-laying ceremony earlier this week to honour service members killed in the Afghanistan War withdrawal, a defense official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

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“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,” the cemetery officials’ statement said. “Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants. We can confirm there was an incident, and a report was filed.”

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 109 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Trump shows up during a ceremony honoring the people that died due to his 2020 agreements with the Taliban, breaks the cemetery’s “no political photography” rule, all in an attempt to regain rapport with veterans and active service members.

Beyond delusional.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And of course he personally attacked the person who had the audacity to enforce the very reasonable rules protecting these soldiers' graves from being used for bullshit political stunts by insurrectionist traitors who do not value freedom and democracy and the principles these soldiers dedicated their lives to.

[–] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not personally, I thought it was a staffer.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I meant personally as in targeting a specific individual with insults over doing their jobs and following procedures, but you're right that it was a staffer (not that I don't think Trump would do similar)

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh and Vance, a fucking GWOT vet (although without a CAR we know he didn’t actually get up to any hoodrat shit) himself, defended him.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not only did he defend Trump, but he also told Harris to "go to hell" as part of that defense.

Trump’s running mate JD Vance was asked about the incident Wednesday at a campaign event in Erie, Pennsylvania, and said that “apparently somebody at Arlington Cemetery, some staff member, had a little disagreement with somebody” and “the media has turned this into a national news story.”

He instead tried to focus on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, calling Harris “disgraceful” for not firing anyone for the deaths of service members in the terror attack. “She can go to hell,” Vance said.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

As if it's the VPs job to do hiring and firing in the military or executive branch. What an idiotic redirection.

Also ignoring that the investigation of the IED bombing found there was nothing that could have been done to prevent it, as is often the case in these low level terror attacks.

Both pieces of shit. I'm glad this shitty pandering is backfiring.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Right? What does he thinks the VP does exactly?

[–] wunami@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

He might be imagining he'll be a VP like Dick Cheney and projecting that onto Harris.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Vance is really on a roll since that donut shop tour, lol

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago
[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

He'll probably sell commemorative photos.

[–] Xyre@lemmus.org 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pixels of the photos so everyone can have a piece of history! /s

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, it will include part of the wreath and a torn piece of a dead soldiers photo.

[–] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Get your illegally obtained nft only available on coup Maga dot com. Get a free 'merica flag nft with purchase. The low low price of 100 trump bucks...

/s

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 7 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

He already put them in donation requests

[–] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I’m really getting tired of seeing photos of Donnie’s little pedo hands groping that wreath.