Officials at Arlington national cemetery have filed a report over the behavior of members of Donald Trump’s campaign staff who reportedly shoved and verbally abused an employee during a “crass” photo opportunity for the Republican presidential candidate.

The officials confirmed that a confrontation took place at the Virginia cemetery on Monday after the former president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony for 13 US servicemen and -women killed in a 2021 suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan.

In a statement, Arlington acknowledged one of its representatives became involved in the altercation with two Trump staffers, telling them that only cemetery representatives were allowed to take video and photographs in Section 60, an area where recent US casualties mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan are buried.

“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,” the statement said, adding that “a report was filed” over the incident.

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    3 months ago

    Call me when it’s reporting a fuckin indictment, and when he doesn’t want to go with the cops, someone slams him on the fuckin pavement and cuffs him. It’s a goddamned military cemetery and they shoved the employee out of the way so they could disrespect the fuckin place and violate federal law.

    Let’s turn this into something that’s in the fuckin news cycle. All kinds of weird bullshit becomes a big deal.