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Via #NickKnudsen @ 7:06pm EDT on Aug 30, 2024
Holy hell this ad from #VoteVets absolutely eviscerates #Trump.
Share this everywhere.
Because NOBODY in our #ArmedForces should EVER have to salute that man again.
“That’s not the time or place for it,” said Karen Meredith, a #VoteVets board member whose son, 1st Lt. Ken Ballard, is buried in the second row of #Section60. “They had to #bully themselves into this thing. The lack of #respect for the rules or the norms or the #laws at #Arlington — there’s just no respect.”
#law #disrespect #military #ServiceMembers #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #USpol
#HarrisWalz2024
…Other #veterans & bereaved families viewed #Trump’s visit as #disrespectful to a sacred space that also belongs to them & to the nation. #Section60 is a place where young widows can be seem trimming grass w/hand scissors, sharing comfort w/other #GoldStarFamilies, & decorating graves w/flowers & beads. Visitors have long taken graveside photographs there, & sitting presidents have visited before, but not as part of #campaign events.
“If the [#Trump] #campaign feels the need to defend their team’s actions — which include #bullying & physically pushing out of the way [#assault] a longtime #PublicServant & member of the team at #Arlington working to protect the sanctity of the sacred spaces — then that’s on them,” one #Defense ofcl said. “The rules were made clear to participants, & these two chose to disregard those rules. End of story.”
#law #disrespect #military #ServiceMembers #USpol
#HarrisWalz2024
[#Trump]…portrays himself as a champion of the #military, but #Democrats point to his public & private remarks denigrating #ServiceMembers.
“I just haven’t seen anything this disgusting. It is completely inappropriate to do any kind of #political activity on a federal installation, & it is #immoral …to conduct any kind of #SelfServing activity on a #cemetery w/the graves of our fallen,”said Paul Eaton, a ret #Army general & adviser to #VoteVets whose father’s remains are interred at #Arlington.
He gave them one anyway. Earlier this month, #Trump’s campaign contacted #military ofcls about visiting #ArlingtonNationalCemetery…. Federal #law prohibits #election-related activities at #MilitaryCemeteries, & #Arlington is the most prestigious & sacred of all. #Pentagon ofcls were deeply concerned about Trump turning it into a #campaign stop,…acc/to #Defense ofcls & internal msgs reviewed by WaPo.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/28/trump-arlington-cemetery-section-60/
How a Trump visit sparked turmoil at America’s most sacred cemetery
Army officials hoped clear rules would avoid a damaging public spat with Trump. He gave them one anyway.Isaac Arnsdorf (The Washington Post)
#Trump has repeatedly defied restrictions [#law] on using #federal property for #campaign purposes by staging a #political speech at #MountRushmore, participating in a television interview inside the #LincolnMemorial, & holding [some of] the 2020 #RepublicanNationalConvention at the #WhiteHouse itself. As president, he pushed unsuccessfully for a *European-style* [nazi-esque] #military parade down Pennsylvania Ave.
#disrespect #Arlington #USpol
#HarrisWalz2024
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-ap-top-news-republican-national-convention-politics-54b27b22c8d4d5472f7ccfaeb0bb87ea
AP Explains: Is a Trump White House acceptance speech legal?
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump instantly ignited new controversy when he said recently that he may deliver his nomination acceptance speech during the Republican National Convention at the White House.AP News
"Donald knows that he does not in any way measure up to the men and women who have served this country, just as he knows he could never measure up to my father. He’s a weak and insecure man who he mocks his betters to compensate for his own inadequacies."
~ Mary Trump
"Trump brought a 'private photographer,' who accompanied Trump to an area of the cemetery (Area 60) reserved for burial of US soldiers recently killed in action—and off limits to photography. Trump nonethless posed for a photo in front of a grave marker while sporting a broad smile and giving a 'thumbs up' hand signal."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #Arlington #cemetery
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/team-normal-powers-forward-team-trump
"When a cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering the section where the grave was located, 'campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside.'”
"This evening, Quil Lawrence and Tom Bowman of NPR explained the story behind the surprising photos of Trump on Monday giving a thumbs-up over a grave in Arlington National Cemetery. The reporters wrote that '[t]wo members of Donald Trump's campaign staff had a verbal and physical altercation Monday with an official' at the cemetery, where '[f]ederal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities.'”
~ Heather Scott Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-27-2024
August 27, 2024
Sam Stein of The Bulwark reported yesterday that the Trump campaign is about to start running ads in the area around Mar-a-Lago.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
“'I like people who don’t get caught,' he said about Senator John McCain, who spent 5 and a half years being tortured in a prison camp while Donald lied about having bone spurs and received four deferments without any thought of who would go to Vietnam in his stead.
That’s who he is. And any time he’s allowed an opportunity to convince people otherwise is just another desecration."
