The latest "Thing That Trump Did That Would End Any Other Politician" is filming a campaign video in freaking Arlington Cemetery. The Times, of course, does not currently have the story on their front page. The Post does. The video and pictures were taking in Section 60, which is off limits for political posturing. What's more, there are reports from NPR that Trump campaign officials were physical with officials at Arlington who were trying to enforce the...you know...law.
Here's a graph from the Post:
But Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung said that “there was no physical altercation as described,” that the campaign was given permission to bring a photographer and that it is “prepared to release footage” to defend against “defamatory claims.”
Cheung also claimed, without providing evidence or details, that “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.”
So, first of all, the Trump campaign doesn't spin things, they outright lie. Here's a statement:
“Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign,” the cemetery’s statement said. “Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants.”
This is pretty much backed up by the Trump campaigns own videos of the events. This is shortly after saying that Medal of Freedom recipients are better than Medal of Honor recipients, because they are better looking without wounds and shit.
I swear to Dog, in a sane world, Harris would not only be up in Texas and Florida, she'd be winning Idaho.
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