"Yesterday, the U.S. Army issued a stern rebuke to the Trump campaign over his visit on Monday to the Arlington National Cemetery...
The incident has blown up into a big issue, but not because the Trump campaign erroneously held a political event at the Arlington National Cemetery."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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"It’s blown up because it’s a microcosm of Donald Trump’s moral squalor. ...
What happened at Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week was much more than an erroneous photo op. It was Trump on full display."
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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"The Army said that the cemetery hosts almost 3,000 public wreath-laying ceremonies a year without incident and that Trump and his staff 'were made aware of federal laws, Army regulations and [Department of Defense] policies, which clearly prohibit political activities on cemetery grounds'.”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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"It went on to say that a cemetery employee 'who attempted to ensure adherence to these rules was abruptly pushed aside…. This incident was unfortunate, & it is also unfortunate that the… employee and her professionalism has been unfairly attacked. [Arlington National Cemetery] is a national shrine to the honored dead of the Armed Forces, and its dedicated staff will continue to ensure public ceremonies are conducted with the dignity & respect the nation’s fallen deserve.'”
#Arlington
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“'I don’t think I can adequately explain what a massive deal it is for the Army to make a statement like this,' political writer and veteran Allison Gill of Mueller, She Wrote, noted. 'The Pentagon avoids statements like this at all costs. But a draft dodging traitor decided to lie about our armed forces staff, so they went to paper.'”
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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Below is a screenshot of the headline for Josh Kovensky's report today at Daily Kos about the Army's statement re: Trump's desecration of Arlington National Cemetery:
"Army: Thousands of Events Are Held at Arlington. Only Trump Caused an Incident."
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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"The law aside, only a gross lack of manners, decency and humility could incline a person to film a fundraising appeal over the resting places of dead men and women who cannot decline to participate in the coarse spectacle. The photo of a grinning Trump giving a jaunty thumbs up over these patriots’ graves is an indelible image of narcissism risen to the point of sociopathy."
~ Kevin Carroll
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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"At Arlington, it’s not a controversy. It’s a crime.
Who are we going to believe, Trump or the United States Army? ...
Assault is a crime, but the criming didn’t stop there."
~ John Stoehr
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://www.editorialboard.com/at-arlington-its-not-a-controversy-its-a-crime/
"There’s nothing funny about Trump’s desecration of Arlington National Cemetery. Except perhaps the image of clueless Trump smiling like a moron giving the thumbs up in front of row upon row of the grave markers of fallen warriors. I mean, it’s deeply offensive. Repugnant in the extreme."
~ David Rothkopf
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/nature-is-sending-you-a-message-about
William Lindsey 
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