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.”
Does anybody know what the actual incident was?
From the link:
Cemetery staff tried to stop them from filming/taking photographs in a restricted section of cemetery and and Trump’s people physically and verbally abused them for doing their job.
Even worse, in my opinion, is Trump spokesman Steven Cheung’s response.
How dare that peon try to enforce the rules? Didn’t they know that Trump is beyond all mortal regulations? Clearly the peon was mentally ill at the time.
It’s horrifying that Trump’s campaign manager would casually make this significant health claim on an official that dared to do his job rather than bow to Trump’s will. Just horrifying.
That cemetery official should sue for slander
You don’t even have to open the article to get your answer, the relevant portion of text has been transcribed into the body of the post. Scroll up and read for fucks sake.
I understand that pictures and videos were taken for political purposes and that is illegal. Was there a further incident though? Did a fallen service member’s family confront Trump’s team or something?
From what I’ve read, it sounds like it was cemetery staff saying “hey you can’t film here”.
Furthermore Trump’s staffers verbally assaulted and physically pushed at least one cemetery official when that official tried to bar access into the photography-restricted area.
Then called her (I think NPR said it was a her) crazy afterwards, implying she was having a mental health episode. Then they’ve gone on to release photos, showing they were blatantly violating federal law after being clearly told they were doing so. Not to mentioned , they allegedly assaulted an Arlington cemetery staff member in furtherance of that violation (I know you mentioned this but I feel it’s worth repeating, there should be multiple people charged for this).
To add to what the guy below said: