Posted on 12/26/2018 6:09:18 PM PST by LibWhacker
President Donald Trump made his first visit to a war zone on Wednesday, receiving an enthusiastic reception from many US troops there -- some of whom may have run afoul of military rules.
Video footage and the written report of Trump's visit with service members in Iraq showed the President signing "Make America Great Again" hats and an embroidered patch that read "Trump 2020."
But troops' requests for the autographs could brush up against Department of Defense guidelines for political activities.
Those guidelines say that "active duty personnel may not engage in partisan political activities and all military personnel should avoid the inference that their political activities imply or appear to imply DoD sponsorship, approval, or endorsement of a political candidate, campaign, or cause."
(Excerpt) Read more at -m.cnn.com ...
bitch bitch bitch
Since when is collecting autographs “engaging in partisan political activities”?
these CNN pukes never had a problem with Hopeychangey t shirts, right?
Completely ridiculous.
Our military is once again a Patriotic organisation.
Despite the efforts of Obozzo, Bush and Clinton
Surprised someone hasn’t “b!tch” slapped the whiny little bastards.
Bullsh!t...
This has already been debunked.
The troops brought their own hats for the President to autograph
CNN has yet to retract or update this
I don’t see how asking for an autograph, even if it’s on a MAGA hat, implies that the DoD is sponsoring a political candidate. These a-holes need to get a life and a brain.
The so-called “news” media would be gushing with praise at Hussein signing pics of himself
Somebody needs to take CNN’s Eli out behind the woodshed for a lesson.
Of course the Leftists don’t mind regularly disenfranchising military service members who vote via absentee ballot because they know they overwhelmingly support non-’RAT candidates. Or cutting the defense budget whenever they can to hollow out our armed forces.
Sure a lotta little girlie pukes at the communist nonsense network.
Baloney. This would make receiving a signed presidential citation engaging in politics.
By any possible means right??
I can tell you they sounded enthusiastic to see our President and wonderful First Lady!
Here is the entire speech he gave to them if anybody is interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v35t6cEinj0
Funny, I can’t remember that roar of approval anytime Obambi addressed the military...
Where does it say in this article that Trump brought the hats?
Actually, he did and they did
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