Trump campaign staff had altercation with official at Arlington National Cemetery
www.npr.org
The cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried, a source with knowledge of the incident told NPR.
  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    135·
    23 days ago

    This went viral an hour ago. It is reprehensible. They tried to stop them from taking photos and film. There’s even federal law which prohibits this. This would destroy a presidental candidate, but we’re talking Trump.

  • roofTophopper@lemmy.world
    14·
    22 days ago

    Immediately puts blame on the official; that they were having a mental breakdown - ya fucking right. These people deal with this on a daily basis. They have to tell people to not record, snap shots, and be respectful. The only difference is, some people just don’t know better - the people who maintain those grounds see it all the time and 99% of the time, people chill and follow the rules.

    Ho ho ho, not here. Nope. It’s totally the official’s fault. They was being a crazy person and having a meltdown. This totally wasn’t someone being a disrespectful asshat. He wouldn’t dare do that.

  • Myxomatosis@lemmy.world
    65·
    23 days ago

    Reading that article and the snarky comments from his campaign staff really pissed me off. They can all go fuck themselves for disrespecting Arlington like that.

    • _bcron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45·
      22 days ago

      They assaulted someone for doing their job. Not just anyone - a federal employee protected under 18 USC 111, on account of that federal employee’s performance of their duties, in violation of 18 USC 111, and then make a statement acting like they’re the reasonable party in this incident.

      i’d say they act like a bunch of 8 year old bullies but most kids are wise enough not to draw this kind of heat

      • frezik@midwest.social
        222·
        22 days ago

        And claimed the person was “clearly suffering from a mental health issue”.

        Fuck these people.

        • Delusional@lemmy.world
          2·
          22 days ago

          Well no sane, reasonable, good person would ever work for trump so of course he gets the assholes and bullies working for him since that is what trump is.

        • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          22 days ago

          There sure are a lot of mental health issues leading to violence. Well, that’s a shame, nothing to do about that.

      • Hazzia@infosec.pub
        11·
        22 days ago

        An 8 year old bully that slipped up enough times to realize that the rules are all talk and consequences don’t come to them so they start acting like they’re immune (because they have been), but since they’re still 8 year old bullies, even if daddy doesn’t spank them, they still get their fee-fees hurt when the social consequences of nobody wanting to play with you anymore come knocking.

        … and because they’re still 8 year old bullies they think the correct way to resolve that is to be really mean and nasty to everyone who doesn’t like them in hopes that they’ll just roll over and keep doing what the bully wants them to.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    106·
    23 days ago

    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.

    Yet his idiot base cling to the idea that he loves this country.

        • Doomsider@lemmy.world
          4·
          22 days ago

          Jokes aside, he was told to do it by his handlers in a lame attempt to keep the last of his stupid fucking military peeps voting for him.

          The same peeps he is hoping will overthrow our democracy for him and destroy our country in the name of billionaires who don’t wanna pay taxes.