Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, visited Arlington Nationwide Cemetery on Monday to take part in a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the third anniversary of a suicide bombing on the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport that killed 13 U.S. service members.
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Two members of Donald Trump’s marketing campaign employees had a verbal and bodily altercation Monday with an official at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery, the place the previous president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony, NPR has realized.
A supply with information of the incident stated the cemetery official tried to forestall Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a piece the place latest U.S. casualties are buried. The supply stated Arlington officers had made clear that solely cemetery employees members are licensed to take images or movie within the space, referred to as Part 60.
When the cemetery official tried to forestall Trump marketing campaign employees from getting into Part 60, marketing campaign employees verbally abused and pushed the official apart, in accordance with the supply.
Trump participated in an occasion to mark the third anniversary of a lethal assault on U.S. troops in Afghanistan as U.S. forces withdrew from the nation; 13 U.S. service members have been killed within the assault. The Trump marketing campaign has blamed President Biden and Vice President Harris, now the Democratic presidential nominee, for the chaotic withdrawal.
In a press release to NPR, Steven Cheung, the Trump marketing campaign’s spokesman, strongly rejected the notion of a bodily altercation, including: “We’re ready to launch footage if such defamatory claims are made.
“The actual fact is {that a} personal photographer was permitted on the premises and for no matter cause an unnamed particular person, clearly affected by a psychological well being episode, determined to bodily block members of President Trump’s crew throughout a really solemn ceremony,” Cheung stated within the assertion.
The Trump marketing campaign declined to make that footage instantly accessible.
In a press release to NPR, Arlington Nationwide Cemetery stated it “can verify there was an incident, and a report was filed.”
“Federal legislation prohibits political marketing campaign or election-related actions inside Military Nationwide Army Cemeteries, to incorporate photographers, content material creators or every other individuals attending for functions, or in direct assist of a partisan political candidate’s marketing campaign,” in accordance with the assertion. “Arlington Nationwide Cemetery strengthened and broadly shared this legislation and its prohibitions with all members.”