House Dems Petition Army To Release Arlington Report

CBS News reports:

Democratic lawmakers with the House Oversight Committee sent a letter Friday to the U.S. Army requesting a report into an altercation earlier this week involving an Arlington National Cemetery employee and Trump staff who brought campaign photographers to the cemetery.

In the letter, the committee’s ranking member, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, wrote to Army Secretary Christine Wormuth that he was “hopeful you can provide the Committee with a full account” of Monday’s incident.

In his letter, Raskin wrote that “it appears that the Trump campaign refused to abide by Arlington National Cemetery’s absolute prohibition,” and cited Arlington’s guidelines prohibiting “filming for partisan, political, or fundraising purposes” under the Hatch Act.

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News –> Dems are pushing the Army to clarify why they think Trump’s Arlington fiasco broke the law, and demanding a clearer account of what his campaign aides did to that woman. One source says Dems are frustrated at the lack of detail.

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