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Dude fuckin charge him

It’s a violation of federal law? Go arrest him. Let people who served with the people buried nearby serve the warrant. Let him sit in custody until he explains to a judge why he should be free.

Fuck him. You don’t have to charge him with anything above and beyond what happened, but just stop treating him special. Oh, go after the campaign staff who laid hands on the official, too. Pretty sure that’s a felony in most jurisdictions.

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Probably can’t charge Trump. As usual, he used his lackeys to break the law. Do you even mafia bro?

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Clearly, as it was part of his campaigning, this was an official act designated by someone who was at one point, and hopes again to be this election season, the President of the United States, in direct relation to the Office of the Presidency, which therefore bars any form of prosecution taking place.

God I am fucking sick to my stomach that what I just wrote is a mostly valid statement these days.

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Campaigning is legally not an official act. It’s why presidents usually don’t do it. from the white house. https://www.propublica.org/article/its-illegal-for-federal-officials-to-campaign-on-the-job-trump-staffers-keep-doing-it-anyways

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“We are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made.”

Well, fat fuck. We’re waiting.

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“The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump’s team during a very solemn ceremony,” Cheung said in the statement.

Seems like the comment about a mental health episode is defamatory. So, once again, it’s projection.

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He just had to throw in the “mental health episode” comment didn’t he? Lying motherfucker.

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As if those chucklefucks know the first thing about solemnity

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Yup. Also, “permitted onto the premises?” Arlington is open to the public.

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That was a pretty solemn thumbs-up I saw there, let me tell you.

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We are prepared to release footage

Thereby proving they broke the law:

Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign

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Gotta edit it first.

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This went viral an hour ago. It is reprehensible. They tried to stop them from taking photos and film. There’s even federal law which prohibits this. This would destroy a presidental candidate, but we’re talking Trump.

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Yup, this is the rabble that voted for the man who said he could shoot someone in Times Square and get away with it.

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It’s perhaps the only true thing he’s ever said.

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50 bucks says that the instant that Arlington staffer’s info gets made public, s/he’ll be inundated with death threats from Cult 45ers.

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Tough to take that bet now that death threats seem to be part of the playbook

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Cult 45 and Olde E(gotism)

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When the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering Section 60, campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside, according to the source.

Yet his idiot base cling to the idea that he loves this country.

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He prefers people who didnt die for their country

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Very true, so why was he there??!

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Jokes aside, he was told to do it by his handlers in a lame attempt to keep the last of his stupid fucking military peeps voting for him.

The same peeps he is hoping will overthrow our democracy for him and destroy our country in the name of billionaires who don’t wanna pay taxes.

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