Trump Team: Disgraceful Arlington Official Is Mentally Ill

August 28, 2024 Republicans, Trump Lies

From Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung:

We are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made. 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.

The New York Times reports:

The cemetery released a statement saying that federal law prohibits political campaigning or “election-related” activities within Army cemeteries, including by photographers. The cemetery added that it had “reinforced and widely shared” to the Trump campaign the federal laws prohibiting campaign activities by photographers “or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign.”

Chris LaCivita, a top Trump campaign adviser, added in a separate statement that the cemetery official was “a disgrace and does not deserve to represent the hallowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery.” VoteVets, the liberal veterans group, called on Mr. Trump to fire the members of his team involved in the confrontation. The campaign did not provide evidence that the cemetery gave them permission to have a photographer at Section 60.

Publicly claiming that someone is “suffering from a mental health episode” might be legally actionable.



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