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Donald Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery, during which his staff got into an altercation with cemetery personnel and potentially broke federal campaign law, was a triumph, according to Trump’s campaign boss.
Chris LaCivita, the GOP strategist and co-manager of Trump’s 2024 campaign, lauded his candidate late Wednesday in a post on X, calling an image from Trump’s calamitous Arlington visit “The Photo that shook the world and reminded America who the real Commander in Chief is.”
NPR reported Wednesday that two Trump campaign staffers got into a “physical altercation” with an official at Arlington on Monday when the former president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the third anniversary of a fatal attack on U.S. troops during the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Trump was invited to attend by Gold Star families who lost family members during the withdrawal.
The incident arose when Trump’s team tried to film and photograph in a section of Arlington where recent U.S. casualties are laid to rest and where only cemetery staff are allowed to film or take pictures. One Arlington staffer tried to prevent the Trump team from gathering footage.
Cemetery officials told the broadcaster it “can confirm there was an incident, and a report was filed.”
Federal law bars political campaigns and election-related activities inside Army national military cemeteries, and Arlington officials said it “reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants,” noting it applies to “photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign.”
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