The political stunt also broke a federal law prohibiting political activities in that section of the cemetery.
is facing new questions on Thursday about a stunt the former president filmed at Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week. Photos of the 45th president giving a big thumbs up were the first to surface in an incredibly tacky, if typical, move for Trump.
The Arlington staff member has reportedly declined to press charges against Trump because it “could subject her to retaliation from Trump supporters,” as the Times reports. And that’s a reasonable fear, given the fact that Trump is the guy who tried to literally overthrow the U.S. government on January 6, 2021, and his followers are some of the most violent extremists around.
“The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and 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,” Cheung The Army released a new statement about the incident on Thursday to defend the unnamed staff member at Arlington , who was simply trying to enforce the rules.
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