Officials at military cemetery say two campaign members ‘verbally abused and pushed’ a representative

Officials at Arlington national cemetery have filed a report over the behavior of members of Donald Trump’s campaign staff who reportedly shoved and verbally abused an employee during a “crass” photo opportunity for the Republican presidential candidate.

The officials confirmed that a confrontation took place at the Virginia cemetery on Monday after the former president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony for 13 US servicemen and -women killed in a 2021 suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan.

In a statement, Arlington acknowledged one of its representatives became involved in the altercation with two Trump staffers, telling them that only cemetery representatives were allowed to take video and photographs in Section 60, an area where recent US casualties mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan are buried.

“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 statement said, adding that “a report was filed” over the incident.

  • mozz
    76•3 months ago

    Call me when it’s reporting a fuckin indictment, and when he doesn’t want to go with the cops, someone slams him on the fuckin pavement and cuffs him. It’s a goddamned military cemetery and they shoved the employee out of the way so they could disrespect the fuckin place and violate federal law.

    Let’s turn this into something that’s in the fuckin news cycle. All kinds of weird bullshit becomes a big deal.

  • @DaddleDew
    46•3 months ago

    They knew exactly what they were doing. They’ll keep escalating until Trump becomes the center of media attention again.

    • Optional
      12•3 months ago

      Hey y’know how he can dominate the news cycle for a good solid week? Seems like he did that not that long ago . . .

  • @barsquid
    39•3 months ago

    Just Donald breaking another federal law because he has yet to see any consequences for doing so previously.

  • @officermike
    27•3 months ago

    “solemn ceremony”

    Grinning with thumbs up…

  • @leadore
    23•3 months ago

    If Trump gets back in office, this is how it will be everywhere. He and his minions will do whatever the hell they want and nobody better stand in their way, rules and laws will be meaningless (in both ways–they don’t have to obey them and you can be arrested even if you don’t break any).

    • @[email protected]
      6•3 months ago

      He will also demand all rockets to have pointy tips and replace the most complicated words with Aladeen Trump.

  • Jagothaciv
    17•3 months ago

    Trump staffers are basically the shitty trust fund kids that don’t deserve it.

  • Aniki 🌱🌿
    10•3 months ago

    Ooooh they filed a report! That will surely stop Trump!!

    Where the fuck were the capitol police??

    ACAB