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    22 days ago

    Who cares? That place is full of LOSERS and SUCKERS and Veterans and Military Personnel would HIGHLY AGREE WITH ME otherwise they wouldn’t LOVE TRUMP so much!

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    22 days ago

    I can only try to imagine the pain of this family, who loved this hero and lost him so tragically, see his final resting place treated as a prop for a man who thinks people in the military are losers.

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    22 days ago

    Are these the folks pictured? Why did they agree to that, and smile?

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        22 days ago

        Ok, could you clarify then? Who the heck were they then? It adds to the issue if some randos posed with the grave

        Edit why was this downvoted? I am actually interested if those people are trump staff or something

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          The article does a better job of explaining it. But the people mentioned who are complaining were the family of another soldier whose gravestone was in the picture. The people giving the thumbs up posing with Trump are another family of a different soldier.

          The Trump campaign is saying that they were invited there and given permission to take a picture. The invite and permission came from the family in the picture, but there is a federal law against taking campaign photos there for situations just like this. It’s incredibly tacky and disrespectful to take thumbs up photos for a political campaign on other people’s graves, even if a few living people said it was ok.

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            The worst part of all this is Trump set up the conditions for Abbey Gate. By the time Biden took office there wasn’t anything he could do short of throwing a couple infantry divisions back into the Afghanistan and telling everyone to leave right away because the ANA wouldn’t hold. At which point he needs more infantry divisions because that announcement would create chaos in the country. And that presupposes they successfully figure out just how badly the Afghan National Army’s readiness was misreported and they get honest reporting from their contractors about the loyalty of the governors, after 4 years of replacing anyone who didn’t report good things.

            Trump is the worst kind of grifter, he killed that man and told his family that it was Biden’s fault because Biden got stuck with Trump’s grenade after Trump pulled the pin.

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            22 days ago

            Yeah, but see that family that invited him there was “special” and the laws don’t apply to them or to Trump when they say they don’t. Typical fucking MAGAts.

        • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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          21 days ago

          why was this downvoted?

          Because instead of reading the article you made assumptions and are now asking other commenters to spoon feed you the information that is in the article.

          If you’re actually interested then RTFA.

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      It doesn’t matter because IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR TRUMP TO BE THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. IT IS A CRIME TO STOP HORRIBLE FUCKING PEOPLE LIKE TRUMP FROM DOING THE LOWEST SHIT ON EARTH LIKE USING A MILITARY MEMBERS DEATH AS A PROP AND TOOL. IT IS ILLEGAL.

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        Not just that, it shows his moral character to a T. It also shows the moral character of those families that thanked him.

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        IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR TRUMP TO BE THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

        So is he going to actually get charged with something? It’s only illegal if you get punished for doing it.

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      No. You do not get to use our dead friends for political stunts. Is that really so hard to understand?

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      The family may have invited him, but taking campaign photos is disallowed. The inviting family DOESN’T make the rules and their invitation doesn’t change the rules.

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        The thing is though, OP’s article isn’t really about the rules, it’s about one family’s displeasure with his appearance. I’m pointing out that this one family seems to be alone in being upset that Trump was there, in contrast with others who were happy he is there.

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          Again, it is not Trump’s PRESENCE, it is taking pictures for his campaign that is an issue here.

          Even if the families who wanted Trump there (vomit) are OK with him breaking every rule anywhere he goes, it does not make it right

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          There’s no voting on the rules. One family (and this is just the one family that spoke up about it) vs one or two families that wanted Trump there means zip. The article focusing on the complaining family is just making it about human interest. Rules is rules.