It wasn’t “possibly illegal”, it was just plainly illegal.
Trump’s campaign spokesman Stephen Cheung flatly denied the physical confrontation allegation, saying his team was prepared to release footage to refute the “defamatory claims,”
The claim is you were filming in Arlington, you dipshit. You’re going to refute that by… releasing the footage?
I wish Repubs were somehow forced to view Donald with the same lens as they viewed Obama’s salutes and whatever else.
I mean, unfortunately they are, the lens is white supremacist theocratic fascism. But I think you all understand what I am trying to get at.
Conservativism is not an ideology, it’s a social disease. It is codified narcissism, where the values and policies of the group are perpetually redefined to conform with whatever is best for the group. It’s malignant identity politics. They didn’t hate Obama because he did things they didn’t like. They hate him because he is their opponent. Obama is bad, so anything he does is automatically bad. Plenty of them are racist, but it isn’t necessarily racism. Ben Carson is OK because he’s on the inside of the line. He’s a member of the group, and as long as he is loyal, they will tolerate his existence as a minority.
Trump is good, so therefore anything Trump does is good. Anything that helps Trump is good. Lying, cheating, stealing, killing, if it helps Trump, it is justified by the identity of the self.
To deny Trump is good is to change the definition of the self. It won’t happen until another Conservative takes it away from him and makes him an outsider, or he dies and becomes a martyr. The former would be more satisfying, but I don’t know that there exists a Republican with the stones to achieve it.
Well said.
This is a reactionary movement who thinks Ayn Rand was an intellectual match for Karl Marx.
They imitate the language and demeanor of the oppressed as a way to entrench their power and to deny freedoms to others.
They want to control society; to return it to a past when there was no diversity, equity, or inclusion. They don’t intend to share power or negotiate.
That’s not how reactionaries do things.
He’s always about to release evidence to prove that he’s innocent
I hope they do, and then Arlington goes after them for it.
They already have the incident report. I don’t think anyone gets prosecuted for that sort of crime, though. It’s more of a “show some respect and basic human decency” thing to which Trump is immune.
They could pursue legal action. America does have civil courts for such things.
Yeah but this is Trump. He’s going to delay, delay, delay, delay until whomever is suing him runs out of money.
Or he’ll settle and never pay.
The only way we’re going to see Trump face any consequences is when our judiciary grows a fucking pair.
E Jean Carroll did actually get paid after a court judgment.
Please. Release the footage. It will help prosecutors.
That draft dodging pile of shit has no business on that land. That’s an insult to anyone that served.
Dodging the Vietnam draft because you thought the war and draft was wrong is based and patriotic.
Doing it because you’re a spoiled coward and a chickenhawk fascist afterwards is the problem.
Why were they allowed there at all? Angry orange is not a government employee anymore. If it was for just a photo op, can just anyone go there for that?
They weren’t. Staff tried to prevent them, and Trump cronies threw a fit and assaulted someone who worked there.
Charge them
It was reported to the authorities. Typically that kind of situation isn’t urgent, so don’t hold your breath.
Without enforcement or something on scene, they don’t really have much recourse. Even if they did, it’s debatable what his secret service detail would do if Trump just shoved his way through and they tried to physically stop him.
His secret service team shouldve advised him of the illegality at least. That should be part of their protective duties
The recourse is a police report that goes to the DA, and making the record public. In other words, Arlington handled it just how they should.
All I can gather is trump really hates conservatives. Everytime he spits in their face they lick it off. What’s not to hate, I guess?
It’s not like it’s every now and then. It’s every time he opens his mouth.
PSA that one of trumps attorneys (joe digenova) said that chris krebbs (after having said that the 2020 election was the most secure election in history) should be “taken out at dawn and shot”
It’s the democrats that are using violent rhetoric guys, please calm down things like “defund the police” and “my body my rights” are violent and offend my feelings.
Cheung is a fucking sycophant nut job, not enough people tune in to him as the enforcer thug next to trump. Dangerous fucking piece of the shit puzzle, Randy.
He’s like trump’s hate/strength translator now. Trump incoherently babbles and dog whistles weakly and then Chueng steps in with press and clarifies to, “People without both arms are cunts and they should be drown publicly. And you, reporter covering this, your mom fucks horses. Next stupid question!”
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/29/nx-s1-5092087/trump-arlington-cemetery-altercation-video
Elmo tried marking this as “unsafe” on Shitter so it wouldn’t be clicked as much. I’m sure you know what to do.
I’m with pink-shirt girl.
I’m with pink-shirt girl.
The former president and Republican nominee posed for photos and videos alongside the families of two service members killed in an August 2021 bombing attack, and many critics questioned why Trump posed with a grin plastered on his face and his customary thumbs-up gesture.
What the actual fuck.
A source with knowledge of the incident said the official tried to enforce a federal law prohibiting political campaigns or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, which Cheung insisted was an individual experiencing a “mental health episode.”
Oh, that’s awesome. I’m a person with a diagnosed mental health issue (bi-polar). It’s really cool how you’re shitting on people like me and others who have similar issues. I bet a lot of soldiers have PTSD, which would also be a mental health issue. Fucking cool, right?
I doubt the guy had any mental health issues. That’s just the trump shithead trying to insult the employee for doing their job.
That’s just the classic republican projection.
Reread. Cheung said the guy trying to enforce the rules was having mental issues…
No not only disrespecting dead military members but mocking conditions their military experience may leave them with.
Trump doesn’t respect dead soldiers I don’t like mccain, never did and though McCain’s service record is straight up dog shit that would have landed literally anyone else in federal prison many times over Trump of all people don’t got a leg to stand on.
I read it. I think he’s just a liar.
It can’t possibly be that the Trump campaign were in the wrong, so the insults start. That asshole is always calling people names and blaming them for bullshit the Trump campaign pulls.
I am confused on which way you mean any of that. Too many do’s and don’ts without specific subjects or enough context.
What’s confusing? The government employee refused to let the Trump campaign break the law so the campaign made up a shitty lie about their mental health.
The campaign basically called them “crazy” to make it seem like they were just being perfectly polite and it was the “other” that was “out of control.” The standard “blame, accuse and double down” when someone points out you fucked up that all of the GOP adopted from Trump.
Its just more name calling from the name callers. I completely doubt the name calling comes from a place of authenticity.
BADD is an apt acronym
Well shit, that is good. I didn’t even notice.
I believe Mango is saying that the Trump staffer is lying when he claims that the cemetery staffer had a mental health issue.
The cemetery staffer was doing his duty, but if the Trump campaign admitted that, they would admit that assaulting him was wrong. So instead, the Trump staffer deflects that criticism by claiming that the cemetery staffer was having a mental health episode.
So rather than blaming issues caused by service, the Trump staffer completely made up issues to justify their behaviour.
It’s highly disrespectful to veterans either way, of course.
Fascists gonna fascist.
The average dumbass American probably doesn’t know that Hitler didn’t just kill Jews, and that their dumb, social-anxiety ridden ass will be one of the first against the wall.
The dad is as much of a moron, thinking that his family can personally authorize Trump to shoot a campaign video at a national cemetery.
Accessory to a crime, you mean. They should lock all those damn criminals away.
I think Trump belongs in prison for a long list of crimes, but I don’t think the penalty for disrespecting fallen soldiers by campaigning on their fresh graves is, or should be, jail time. Just to be clear.
I’m sure it doesn’t occur to the families that Trump was the one who set the dominos that ultimately led to the bombing.
I hate that the press never mentions that it was Trump who agreed to release 5000 Taliban fighters before the attack on the airport at Kabul.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-5000-taliban-prisoners/
Trump was the one who set the dominos that ultimately led to the bombing.
So that’s why he’s doing the thumbs up thing. Congratulating himself on what he considers a job well done.
Trump’s campaign spokesman Stephen Cheung flatly denied the physical confrontation allegation, saying his team was prepared to release footage to refute the “defamatory claims,”
“We have proof, but you can’t see it. Trust me bro”
But it sounds like the families said they gave trump permission…
Which does not change the law against literally using dead soldiers for campaigning.
It doesn’t matter how many families say they’re ok with it, filming an election ad in an Army national cemetery is illegal
I mean, if you want permission to film in the cemetery, you gonna need a necromancer
Yes, but it would still be illegal
Sure? But i am merely invoking the spirit of the law, and not the letter… which is that filming there puts words in the mouth of venerated dead.
No can do, best we have is a CouchRomancer.
We don’t equate romance with rape, dude. Couch didn’t consent.
But we’ll allow it for the pun.
His compassion and respect meant more than words can express
I find it very hard to believe anyone described the turnip as “respectful and compassionate”.
every word drips with “here - the campagn wrote this for you, now sign.”
Trump? Cleaning a thing up? Let’s be serious: he believe that’s a job for “the help”.
He’s just gonna make a bigger pile over it 💩
