Posted on 08/27/2024 5:53:34 PM PDT by Red Badger
Fuming Kamala Harris supporters are calling for the director of the Arlington National Cemetery to be "fired" for allowing Donald Trump to attend a Monday memorial service for fallen soldiers.
Democratic media figures and activists expressed their fury at Arlington National Cemetery director Karen Durham-Aguilera, a longtime senior Army official, after Trump marked the third anniversary of the Kabul airport terrorist attack by attending a wreath-laying ceremony with the families of the fallen service members. The Gold Star families invited Trump to attend the service.
Thirteen American soldiers were killed and 18 wounded in the Abbey Gate suicide bombing during the Biden-Harris administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
Steve Schmidt—a failed GOP campaign operative known for smearing his deceased war hero ex-boss, John McCain—accused Trump of "desecrat[ing] Arlington National Cemetery and America’s most hallowed ground."
Charles P. Pierce, an opinion writer for Esquire, said Trump "grotesquely used Arlington National Cemetery as a campaign prop."
"[H]ow dare you let that creep Trump do what he did yesterday. You must like our service men and women being called suckers and losers! You are really a low class person. You need to resign. Shame on you!" wrote one Harris supporter in a message to Durham-Aguilera on X.
"F—king disgusting! My brother is buried in that cemetery. U should be fired," wrote another X user.
Others flooded Durham-Aguilera with comments calling her a "disgrace" who should "RESIGN IMMEDIATELY"; arguing that "Heads should roll for whoever approved that"; and demanding to know, "Why was the draft-dodging rapist thug convicted felon traitor wannabe dictator laying a wreath today???"
A spokeswoman for the Arlington National Cemetery told the Washington Free Beacon that Trump "was invited by a Gold Star family to participate in a public wreath-laying ceremony and was afforded the same access to ANC ground and facilities as afforded to other unofficial visitors."
"Our focus was on supporting our Gold Star families as they came to honor and pay respect to their loved ones at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and their final resting place," said the spokeswoman.
The left is truly unhinged. I guess these irrational spoiled crybullies have no problem with demonrats commiting rape, dodging the draft or other behaviors.
This (b)administration’s thought on it. “They volunteered to serve so they knew they might get injured or killed.”
Go Trump!
The headline makes it sound like there was a physical attack, which there was not. And the writer forgot to mention that the reason people got upset was that Trump stood over the gravesite of a fallen soldier and gave the thumbs up.
All the lunatic leftists do is b*tch, moan and cry everyday.
Biden and Kamala were reminded of the ceremony 3 times and refused to attend. Trump was invited and attended. So who is ot who REALLY thinks our war dead are sockets? Trump never said those words and his actions have shown nothing but love and respect for our military heroes, both the living and the dead.
Attacked, destroyed, humiliated, devastated…. The proper word is “criticized”.
I’m really tired of these inappropriate and bombastic headlines.
This is one more example of Kamala bringing joy! It doesn’t feel like joy. Because we are not used to Kamalas joy influence. To me it’s more like an unpatriotic screwball partisan tantrum. I hope she is not (s)elected because I have a feeling Kamalas joy will bring about more censorship, illegals flooding in and higher prices for everything.
It’s better than watching AOC fly all the way to the border to cry.
Funny those Democrat bastards didn’t whine about Kamalho and Biden NOT EVEN BEING THERE
But they had to falsely claim about Trump.
I heard someone burned her broom.
And some gold star families did too, which strongly suggests people are deliberately misreading the meaning behind the thumbs up.
Or are you accusing the gold star families of doing something bad too?
There sure is a lot to hate about the democrats these days. Every time you turn around they make it even worse.
you f’n pinhead
you actually lie that President Donald J. Trump was giving a thumbs up over a fallen soldier?
Get thee back newbee Satan !
What was the one from John Kerry? Stupid - stuck in Iraq? Something like that, IIRC.
THERE IS THE REAL HARRIS -—IS THAT WHAT WE WANT???
“Why was the draft-dodging rapist thug convicted felon traitor wannabe dictator laying a wreath today???”
Bill Clinton was there?
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