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Exclusive: John McCain’s son decries Trump appearance at Arlington as a ‘violation’ that turned cemetery into campaign backdrop
CNN ^ | 9/3/24 | Natasha Bertrand

Posted on 09/03/2024 6:31:50 PM PDT by hardspunned

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To: bantam

See .#1


41 posted on 09/03/2024 8:47:03 PM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: hardspunned

Juan was a filthy traitor who allowed the invasion of his country,.... maybe because he was a Panamanian?


42 posted on 09/03/2024 9:19:52 PM PDT by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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To: hardspunned

Apple... Tree...


43 posted on 09/03/2024 9:20:28 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: californian by choice

Actually, one of the Gold Star mothers said that every time they invited Trump they also invited Biden/Harris, it’s just that Trump was the only one who would even respond to any of their communications. To this day Biden and kamala have not communicated with those families beyond the day when the caskets arrived and Joe spent his time looking at his watch. Biden and kamala were reminded three separate times about this event at Arlington but never showed up.

Arlington wasn’t even going to let Trump be there until Speaker Johnson intervened. The family got permission for photos and video to be taken as a remembrance for them. And that’s how it would have remained if Arlington staff hadn’t tried to use the event against Trump.

Arlington staff took the photo of Trump and the family members with thumbs-up when one of the Gold Star moms asked them to snap it real quick as everybody was preparing to leave (Trump spent several hours there with the families; someone who has taken part in lots of ceremonies at Arlington said this was the most solemn and respectful event he had ever seen. It was NOT a “campaign event”, you liars at CNN). Then Arlington staff leaked the photos to NPR to try to slam/frame Trump for disrespectful behavior - claiming that photos were not allowed (a lie).

The Trump campaign said they could release video to exonerate themselves if necessary when Arlington staff made it sound like Trump’s people started a brawl. And eventually Trump posted on his personal TikTok account a video with audio of himself talking about how those deaths should never have happened. I’m not able to see the whole video because I don’t have a TikTok account, but what I saw had images from Arlington showing how Trump respected the fallen and their families.

My own belief is that Trump decided to let the media have their jabs at him in order to allow the message of the Gold Star families to get out: these were needless deaths and there will be more if we keep in office the idiots who caused this in the first place. Trump knew the only way the treasonous media would ever let the subject reach the unwashed masses was if they thought they could “get Trump”.

It’s very similar to what happened when Adam Schiff lied in Congress about Trump’s phone call with Zelensky. Trump ended up having to release the transcript of the call just to correct Schiff’s lies. Same here. Arlington staff leaked photos and lied about Trump’s manner there, forcing Trump to prove otherwise with photo evidence. He did not post it in a campaign ad but on his personal TikTok account, speaking up for the Gold Star families as far as I can tell.

IOW, Arlington staff broke their own rules by using Arlington photos to campaign against Trump via NPR (and then of course the whole stinking media continued the lie), while at the same time hiding behind the very “rules” that they broke, to say that Trump couldn’t defend himself from their lies because it’s only illegal when Trump does it, not when they do it.

The whole thing makes me have nothing but contempt for the people who work at Arlington who did this and the entire media and Harris folks (but I repeat myself).


44 posted on 09/03/2024 9:25:55 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: cartoonistx

I wonder what CNN other TDS sufferers think of Gov’t employees jogging through Arlington Nat’l Cemetary morning, noon, and after work? It can’t be that sacred of a spot if it serves as an ad hoc fartlek.


45 posted on 09/03/2024 9:26:57 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: hardspunned

The boy needs a courts martial after the election. His political is unbecoming an officer.


46 posted on 09/03/2024 10:33:56 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: Jumper

I watched most of the ceremony. I was so moved by Trump‘s demeanor the whole time God is with him.


47 posted on 09/03/2024 11:42:59 PM PDT by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: hardspunned

The McCain’s may be one of the worst families to soil American soil. Meghan might not be as bad as the rest.


48 posted on 09/03/2024 11:59:49 PM PDT by Boomer (The dems and rinos (rat crap) have pegged the evil needle so hard, Satan now answers to them.)
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To: Clutch Martin

I thought fartlek involved speed intervals.


49 posted on 09/04/2024 3:13:11 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: hardspunned

Everything John McCain did was a political backdrop. All day, every day, for decades.


50 posted on 09/04/2024 4:18:20 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: odawg

Road apples rarely fall far from the horse’s ass.


51 posted on 09/04/2024 4:19:55 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: hardspunned

So it seems McCains kid is as big an a-hole as was papa John.


52 posted on 09/04/2024 4:37:11 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: Bonemaker

“The youngest son of the late Sen. John McCain had already been moving away from the Republican Party “. I listen to MSDNC to make sure they have no ammunition. They had a random voter on for 10 minutes who happened to be in the military. They gave his name as “John”. Could have been an actor. He said he’e not voting for Trump. Suddenly the leftists who said All Cops Are Bastards at 54 riots are all teary-eyed about taking pictures at a military cemetery.


53 posted on 09/04/2024 4:54:18 AM PDT by brookwood (The root cause of illegal immigration- the US is rich and gives away benefits, other countries don't)
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To: hardspunned

Didn’t even know that Juan had a son. Yawn. Who cares what he says?


54 posted on 09/04/2024 4:59:39 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: MayflowerMadam

I posted this rubbish because I thought you’d enjoy watching dip$hit, jr make an ass of himself.

See reply #1.


55 posted on 09/04/2024 5:09:40 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: edie1960

God help us.


56 posted on 09/04/2024 5:15:58 AM PDT by Dave911
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To: hardspunned

Oh, I know. I did read Poso’s post. Typical RAT behavior on Sonny Boy’s part — criticizing the right for what the left do. I was just referring to Juan’s son’s insignificance. One more leftie who thinks we GAS about what he thinks or says.


57 posted on 09/04/2024 5:16:07 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: Sirius Lee

Thanks for the laugh. I have never heard that one.


58 posted on 09/04/2024 6:42:52 AM PDT by odawg
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To: hardspunned

Jack Posobiec
BREAKING: Gold Star Family Member confirms Biden and Kamala were invited to the Arlington Memorial service

“We never heard back from them”
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Sean Davis response:
Biden and Harris got 13 Americans killed and then ignored their families and went to the beach, but you’re mad about Trump laying a wreath at the invitation of the troops’ families.
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They would have made way for Biden and or Harris if they had BOTHERED TO SHOW UP!

Crazed Kamala Supporters Attack Arlington National Cemetery Director for Allowing Trump To Lay Wreaths on Soldiers’ Graves
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4261215/posts
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Harris Attempt To Attack Trump’s Arlington Visit Backfires Horribly When Gold Star Families Respond

Gold Star families spoke out against Vice President Kamala Harris after she weighed in on the controversy surrounding former President Donald Trump’s visit to Arlington Cemetery to honor the 13 soldiers killed in the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal.

Mark Schmitz, gold star father of Marine Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz.
“You have 13 families who have been waiting over three years to so much as get a phone call, to so much as hear our kids names said aloud in the halls of Congress, the State of the Union, hell, anything. The irony behind your post, that you give a rat’s ass about our military or our veterans, Jared’s brothers and sisters in arms, the rest of the 12, their brothers and sisters in arms, is an outright lie. We’re living proof of that. You’re despicable. You have zero business running this country. And I pray to God Americans wake the hell up.


59 posted on 09/04/2024 12:40:52 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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