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Gold Star Families Had Trouble Getting Trump Into Arlington Until House Speaker Intervened
Daily Caller ^ | 8/29/24 | Henry Rogers

Posted on 08/29/2024 7:58:01 AM PDT by CFW

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson had to intervene to get former President Donald Trump into Arlington National Cemetery for the third anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal with Gold Star families, a family told the Daily Caller.

The Gold Star families, who lost their children during the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, invited Trump to Arlington National Cemetery. He laid a wreath there for the 13 servicemembers who were killed serving their country in Afghanistan. However, a Gold Star family told the Caller that Arlington National Cemetery was trying to make it difficult for the former President to appear for the ceremony to honor their children, something the families requested.

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Arlington National Cemetery told gold star families that they could only be there for a specific time that did not work for everyone’s schedule and were also told the president could not join them at their children’s gravesites, the family told the Caller.

McCaul immediately reached out to Johnson to ask for his assistance with the matter and the Caller is told he continued to track it until it was fixed.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; arlington; goldstarfamilies; media; trump
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What you want to bet the media had their Trump hate-fest articles all pre-written after a heads-up from Arlington officials? They were just waiting to fill in a few blanks before publishing after Trump's attendance at Arlington with the Gold Star families.
1 posted on 08/29/2024 7:58:01 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

How dare him comfort the Gold Star families whose children should still be with them.


2 posted on 08/29/2024 8:00:12 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: CFW

Come January, fire them all!


3 posted on 08/29/2024 8:01:22 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: CFW

It’s a wonder the RATS didn’t have assassins and killers dressed in teleprompter costumes wandering around Arlington looking for a clear shot at Trump.


4 posted on 08/29/2024 8:02:36 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Liberals are FOS. The greatest threat to "democracy" is "immigration". Stupid morons.)
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To: CFW

President Trump has a lot of firing to do after the election......and he better shit can ‘em ALL this time.


5 posted on 08/29/2024 8:03:24 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: farmguy
Yes. Fire everyone that was in on that decision making. Ridiculous. Probably run by Trump hating women.
6 posted on 08/29/2024 8:03:32 AM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: CFW

Deep state doing what it does best.


7 posted on 08/29/2024 8:04:49 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: CFW

Democrats sure are a nasty bunch to their core, so full of hatred.


8 posted on 08/29/2024 8:05:00 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: CFW
that Arlington National Cemetery was trying to make it difficult for the former President to appear for the ceremony

Washington, District of Corruption, is totally politicized by DNC-Uniparty embeds.

Trump should remove the seat of government to Mar-A-Lago.

9 posted on 08/29/2024 8:06:12 AM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: CFW

How typically petty of the entrenched leftist bureaucracy.

They are awful human beings on all levels.

They also sent some flunky who had a literal mental health, crying and shaking, meltdown about an authorized photographer taking pictures.

That’s an impressive level of Trump Derangement Syndrome


10 posted on 08/29/2024 8:06:31 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: George from New England

“Deep state doing what it does best”
In things both large, and in this case, petty.


11 posted on 08/29/2024 8:11:18 AM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
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To: CFW

Its Washington DC, after all.

99% of all Fed.gov apparatchiks in DC, Maryland and N. Virginia have had their brains thoroughly washed by the DC marxist and statist ideologues over the last 3 decades.


12 posted on 08/29/2024 8:12:53 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: George from New England

Deep state doing what it does best.

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Yep.

People, particularly the left, think that when we say “deep state” we are implying there is some shadowy conspiracy group. In reality, it’s a very large number of passive aggressive bureaucrats who love nothing more than to throw their limited authority around every chance they get, particularly to progress their political beliefs and biases.

In this case, it sounds like someone whose charge in this universe was to maintain the organized operations of Arlington, and decided this would be a great opportunity to brag quietly among his/her/it bureaucrat comrades how he obstructed a ceremony because it involved Trump.


13 posted on 08/29/2024 8:13:18 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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The Arlington National Cemetery administration has been captured by persons loyal to foreigners in the Deep State.

MAGA winning the 2024 election will be a start. We also need to make sure it’s a turning point.

Be prepared!


14 posted on 08/29/2024 8:14:35 AM PDT by rx
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These deep state SOB’s can’t give an inch. They stoop to this level, to deny Goldstar families the ability to have a former president who shares their grief be with them on the anniversary of their children’s deaths? What absolute scum we are dealing with. This is only further evidence that we need to get rid of these people, they are a pox on our country.


15 posted on 08/29/2024 8:15:04 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." - The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: PGR88

Many government agencies need to move out of the DC area and to other parts of the country.


16 posted on 08/29/2024 8:15:44 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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Remember this is the moron toadie SecDef Lloyd Austin’s “Arlington” who ordered a huge 1900 monument to both sides of the Civil War removed—a memorial where the creator/sculptor (a Jewish CSA veteran) is buried. Wonder if they moved the grave also.

These are despicable NWO “woke” a@@holes permanently. An example of which was the “altercation causing” civilian employee who hassled the press corps in attendance, also at the invitation of the Gold Star families who lost Marines and soldiers in the Afghan “withdrawal- aka run away!!!!”


17 posted on 08/29/2024 8:15:59 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: V_TWIN

“President Trump has a lot of firing to do after the election......and he better shit can ‘em ALL this time.”

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The bureaucracy is absolutely massive. Its going to take a herculean effort to dislodge layer upon layer of bureaucracy. Trump will be lucky to make a small dent in it; he only has three years to do this and DC is very good at protecting itself and resisting change. At the same time he will have to deport millions of immigrants. So much to do, so little time.


18 posted on 08/29/2024 8:17:31 AM PDT by Starboard
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The bass turds doing all the whining about Trump being there are the same bass turds who ripped down the Confederate Soldiers Memorial. Confederate Soldiers were AMERICANS too!!! Arlington is for American soldiers.

Deal with it.

If Tiny Tim Tampon appears beggin' for some money to buy some Tampons, just hit "Skip Ad".

19 posted on 08/29/2024 8:18:21 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Liberals are FOS. The greatest threat to "democracy" is "immigration". Stupid morons.)
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To: dandiegirl

> Fire everyone that was in on that decision making. Ridiculous. <

Probably some combination of Trump-haters and petty, self-important bureaucrats who live for the opportunity to boss citizens around.

I suppose in the old days a citizen could call his congressman and complain. But now one congressman represents 700,000 or so people. He’s too busy raising funds to listen to you.


20 posted on 08/29/2024 8:18:21 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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