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Trump orders flags flown at half-staff to honor Capital Gazette victims
MSN/Washington Post ^ | 07/03/2018 | John Wagner

Posted on 07/03/2018 12:49:05 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

President Trump issued a proclamation Tuesday ordering flags flown at half-staff on federal buildings to honor the five victims of the Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis, Md., the White House said.

The decision follows a request over the weekend by Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley (D), which he said was initially not granted.

~snip~

During a news conference on the Annapolis waterfront Tuesday morning, Buckley thanked Trump but relayed frustration over the process.

“We waited all of Saturday, all of Sunday,” Buckley said. “We understood maybe there was some communications problems. We waited all day Monday and didn’t hear anything.”

~snip~

The U.S. flag is flown at half-staff on federal buildings by presidential proclamation as a sign of respect after the deaths of public officials or noteworthy figures and after some mass shootings. In 2016, for example, it was flown at half-staff 53 times, including after mass killings in Orlando and Brussels. More recently, it flew at half-staff after 10 people were killed at a high school in Santa Fe, Tex.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: capitalgazette; falfstaff
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To: robroys woman; All

Obama ordered more flag lowerings than any previous president
But then, we know he was constantly ashamed of America

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/06/15/obama-flags-at-half-staff-proclamations/85891870/


21 posted on 07/03/2018 1:08:44 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

They could ask the WH to lower the flag after every weekend in Baltimore


22 posted on 07/03/2018 1:10:03 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Some nutty disgruntled incel, murders a few people at a newspaper because they did a news report on his stalking, and that is a national day of mourning? By that standard the flags might as well just stop at half mast all the time


23 posted on 07/03/2018 1:14:53 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Gator113

You please, it’s not a mistake to show respect for the dead and to the families of the deceased.

Stop being so petty.


24 posted on 07/03/2018 1:19:45 PM PDT by billyboy15
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To: Responsibility2nd

Why don’t we just leave it at half staff? Someone great dies every day.


25 posted on 07/03/2018 1:22:14 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: Responsibility2nd

A chicken response to a bullshit request that further reduces the importance and impact of a flag event.


26 posted on 07/03/2018 1:36:56 PM PDT by pt17
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To: Poison Pill

I guess if President Trump asked himself: “What’s going to further my agenda better - doing this or not doing this?” and followed that, I have no reason to complain.

On the other hand, I will be royally pissed off if they lower the flags once that vermin McCain finally dies.


27 posted on 07/03/2018 1:36:58 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: billyboy15

Show all the respect you want, cupcake, but leave our Flag out of it.


28 posted on 07/03/2018 1:43:13 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
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To: Pravious

Uggh. Think about it. He’ll have a State Funeral. Lying in repose in the Capitol.


29 posted on 07/03/2018 1:43:59 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Roy Moore for the Supreme Court of the USA!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
My understanding is that the flag is only flown at half last for a political official or military hero.

Whenever the President decides to do so, such as when Obama lowered the flags when Whitney Houston overdosed in a hot bub.
30 posted on 07/03/2018 1:45:17 PM PDT by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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To: Pravious

On the other hand, I will be royally pissed off if they lower the flags once that vermin McCain finally dies.


Brace yourself, it’s going to happen. The Rat media will incessantly squeal like the vile pigs that they are if the flag isn’t lowered.

Makes me want to vomit repeatedly.

I’m sure Johnny Boy is already constantly fantasizing about this. For many years he’s planned out his “hero’s funeral” in his narcissistic mind—like a five year old little old girl planning her “someday” Princess wedding.


31 posted on 07/03/2018 1:45:20 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Oh, really? I wasn’t aware of that. Still not aware of it, so there’s no half mast. ;-)


32 posted on 07/03/2018 1:46:39 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Responsibility2nd

After druggie Whitney Houston, it was on its way to become meaningless.


33 posted on 07/03/2018 1:51:29 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Responsibility2nd

Right, it did not come any where near to meeting established criteria. It cheapens the honor of half staff (like the Nobel Prize has been tarnished all to hell)


34 posted on 07/03/2018 1:55:05 PM PDT by shalom aleichem ("Why is struck/stroke still employed?")
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To: Responsibility2nd

The real victims are the papers subscribers.


35 posted on 07/03/2018 1:55:20 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

In my understanding the Flag is lowered for military deaths not for political purposes.


36 posted on 07/03/2018 1:56:39 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Absolutely uncalled for at anytime unless there is a national mourning of epic proportions. BTW, some of the survivors at the paper still say f-Trump.


37 posted on 07/03/2018 2:08:16 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Responsibility2nd

With what is going on in America today it might be just as well to leave the Flag at half-staff daily.


38 posted on 07/03/2018 2:13:30 PM PDT by mulligan (EeThe)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I don’t think he can be guilt tripped. What did he have to do with it? The MSM leftards immediately blamed him without so much as waiting for the facts, but they can’t make him hop just because they say “toad”.


39 posted on 07/03/2018 2:20:47 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Dip our nation’s flag to “honor” five individuals who were NOT warriors, who did NOT serve their country, and who DID spend their careers spewing left-wing lies and propaganda? That flag is MY flag, and I resent it being used as a political tool for scum.


40 posted on 07/03/2018 2:24:13 PM PDT by IronJack (A)
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