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Who The Hell Let Trump Into Arlington National Cemetery?

www.esquire.com Who The Hell Let Trump Into Arlington National Cemetery?

This is an insult to the over 400 Medal of Honor awardees buried there.

Well, luckily for the former president*'s campaign, it wasn't raining on Monday, when he grotesquely used Arlington National Cemetery as a campaign prop because, as we know, he gets a little nervous around soldiers' graves in the rain, and he says things that require him to lie his ass off later. Most recently, of course, he devalued the Congressional Medal of Honor in favor of a bauble he draped on Rush Limbaugh and the wife of one of the sleaziest of his sleazy donors.

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I think the bigger story is that someone from the cemetery asked that they not shoot photos/video of the section of the cemetery they were in, and then Trump's campaign staff verbally and physically assaulted the cemetery staff.

So he has now disparaged soldiers at said cemetery, now exploited recently fallen soldiers laid to rest in said cemetery to try and cover for the prior disparaging (as well as the medal of honor), and then assault staff of said cemetery because they tried to stop them from exploiting the cemetery.

You know it's a cult because it's the only way to explain how veterans can look past his flagrant disdain for soldiers, and still stand by him while his campaign disparages Walz for his service.
- It's not just that they were asked not to, it's a federal law. So just add another broken law to the pile I guess?
  
  Also, look at this statement from Trump's campaign spokesperson. What kind of PR person talks like this?? Trumpism is a disease.
  
  ”...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."
  
  It's not just that, it's also that a man assaulted a woman doing her job AND THEN their spokesperson had the audacity later to basically call her hysterical for it.
  
  I'll give jack smith $20 to file charges
  
  Also, the staff member has refused to follow up on any charges, because they fear retaliation from the cult of 45.
- This one will get a few heads turned. Veterans dislike him screwing with vet care, but they can go either side will screw with veteran services.
  
  Then pushing past an army card in uniform at a veteran cemetery, that will even piss off a significant number of his base.
- cemetery staff
  
  Who exactly is staffed at this cemetery? I'm honestly not sure...Ive checked a few news sources and can only find 'an official.' Are they active duty military personnel? Did trumps team assault a uniformed soldier? Why isn't it being put this way anywhere?
  
  It involved the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier so it's entirely possible. I'm honestly impressed the Infantry guarding it didn't put the campaign staffers in the hospital.
  
  Bit of a mix I would guess. Civilian (GS federal employees) and Honor Guard "volunteers" from the various branches.
- veterans can look past his flagrant disdain for soldiers, and still stand by him while his campaign disparages Walz for his service.
  
  It's absolutely shameful
My grandfather is buried in that cemetery. He joined the army to stop men like him from taking power.

The disrespect is palpable, he might as well spit on my Abuelo's grave while he's at it.
- I'm really sorry, that is infuriating.
Who The Hell Let Trump Into Arlington National Cemetery?

"When you're a star, they let you do it"

Edit: I was 100% making a joke, but it seems to actually be that: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5091154/trump-arlington-cemetery

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.
- I think the question still stands. Who specifically let him in, because this was a failure of some sort of chain of command at the cemetery
  
  Per the Arlington National Cemetery’s site (which is a .mil TLD) states:
  
  The Office of Army Cemeteries (OAC), consisting of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia and Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., is under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army.
  
  And when on guard duty, the greenest buck Private has full authority to stop the Secretary of the Army themselves if they refuse to provide identification and authorization for their presence at the posting said Private is guarding. So the correct and appropriate answer would have been to immediately restrain and arrest whoever was doing the pushing and intimidating, as well as any other shitass in the group who was trying to play fucky-fuck games like this.
  
  do they have the authority to keep him out completely? they drew a line at the new section which is where the altercation was.
  
  It's a public cemetery, so I don't take issue with him being there and acting respectfully. The problem comes when he uses it as a publicity stunt and gives the thumbs up when he's placing the wreath.
He’s trying to pretend he likes the military after all the shit the last few weeks.

The other day he did a conference at some National Guard thing.

He’s disgusting.
- Imagine being (former or current) military, and voting for this clown. After literally, explicitly insulting you several times. Unreal.
  
  I can't imagine it and I am former military. If he had done none of his shit up until now, this would disqualifying on it's own. It's hard to put into words just how sacred that soil is when you've watched coffins go into cargo planes at 3 in the morning.
Perhaps more importantly, who let that photo of his weenie little hands gently caressing the wreath as if it were his daughter's ass be released?
- Probably Judge Cannon... I have no proof of it but it tracks with their record.
Aw cut him slack, he looks great in a cemetery! I think he should do it more often.
- I look forward to the day he becomes a permanent resident of one
  
  I don't envy the groundskeeper of that place. People will be using that plot as a bathroom for years.
"See I don't hate suckers and losers guys! 🤪🤪🤪"
Mike Johnson pulled strings to make it happen..

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2024/08/speaker-johnson-pulled-strings-to-get-trump-into-arlington-now-the-scandal-is-spreading/
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I want him buried in a cemetery sooner rather than later. I 'd love for him to have a stroke during the debate and fall over dead on TV. Then they can bury him in the rough on one of his golf courses on election day.
- He can get the same treatment as his ex-wife Ivana Trump. Buried at the golf course, cordoned off, and left to rot. With no one tending his grave and the plants taking over until everyone forgets about this taint stain.
The botched Afghanistan withdrawal that he signed with the Taliban... This was his deal that he left Biden to deal with the repercussions

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