Former President Donald Trump's campaign staff got into an altercation with an official at Arlington National Cemetery as they attempted to take campaign photos in an area where recent military dead are buried — a section where partisan political photography is prohibited.
Trump, meanwhile, was laying a wreath in a ceremony honoring the 13 service members who were killed in a suicide bombing when American forces were frantically exiting Kabul in 2021. It is worth remembering that this gesture was being made by the ex-commander-in-chief who denigrated John McCain's years of tortuous captivity in North Vietnam, who skipped out on a tribute to American war dead in France and who, according to credible witnesses, referred to soldiers as "suckers and losers."
Chances are, Trump would have never been at the Arlington ceremony if it had not offered an opportunity to score political points against the Biden/Harris administration for the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. As it turned out, Trump succeeded in getting his photo taken with grieving family members at the restricted gravesite. In the picture, he is standing in the middle of the somber group, grinning obscenely with thumbs up.
The pose suggests Trump counted the day as a victory — at least for himself.
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