Trump Uses Marines’ Families to Shield Him From Arlington National Cemetery Blowback
Donald Trump released a statement attributed to the relatives of fallen Marines Tuesday after his campaign staff were accused of pushing and verbally abusing an official at Arlington National Cemetery.
The former president attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the site on Monday, with a source telling NPR that his staffers got into an altercation with a cemetery official who tried to prevent them taking photos and video inside Section 60, where recent American casualties are buried. The cemetery says federal law prohibits photography for political purposes in the area.
Trump visited the cemetery on the third anniversary of a suicide bombing at Abbey Gate outside Kabul Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, which killed 13 U.S. service members during the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan.