TPM: Police ARE Investigating Trump's Arlington Cemetery Fiasco

[Dennis Donovan]

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Welp, Turns Out Police ARE Investigating Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Fiasco

By David Kurtz

September 17, 2024 9:59 a.m

Not Done Yet!
Despite the Army declaring the “case closed,” a police investigation is underway into the Arlington National Cemetery fracas involving a cemetery staffer and two Trump campaign staffers, ABC News reports.

The police department at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, where the cemetery staffer filed a report, is apparently conducting its own investigation that is technically outside of the Army chain of command.

Among the things we learned from ABC News:

-An investigator with the base’s police department has sought in recent days to contact Trump campaign officials about the incident in order to interview the campaign staffers involved.
-Attorney Stanley Woodward is representing the Trump campaign staffers.
-The base’s police department is administered by the Army but is staffed by federal law enforcement officers, not military police.
-In a related development, the Army declined to release documents pertaining to the incident because “those documents are part of an open investigation,” ABC News said.

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[malaise]

1. Good

Get thee to the greatest page for visibility

[AltairIV]

2. Gee what happens next?

And nothing will come of this either.

[orangecrush]

15. Don't bet on it

[Biophilic]

3. Good!

I thought the army dumping this was just plain cowardice. If we don’t believe in and stand up for laws/rules what’s the point of having them?

[iemanja]

5. I don't blame the cemetery worker

For not wanting to face the ire of crazy Magats.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. Me either. I would have done the same thing.

Those idiots out there will ruin your life and laugh about it.

[BattleRow]

7. Rules are for the little people

[orangecrush]

16. Trump is a little mushroom

So the rules apply.

[Stargazer99]

4. What a lesson to others that power and money not the law or decency matters

And we wonder why there is so much trespassing of laws, robbery, etc. Those of low moral standards see others getting away with ignoring the law so they figure why not?

[BattleRow]

6. Are Trump and Vance role models

for the youth of this country?

How can any parents endorse these two?

Or expect many of their children to enlist,after soldiers being called suckers and losers?

[NJCher]

9. So true

What happens is you get attitudes like post 2. It appears this person has completely given up and has no belief whatsoever that anyone or anything can bring about justice.

A descent into total cynicism. And they are not alone: the post has 3 recs.

[COL Mustard]

18. What's the point of having power

If you don’t abuse it???

(Not original but I don’t remember where I heard it first.)

[usaf-vet]

10. I hope this investigation is not another incident that will be kept from the voting public until after the election.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. thanks for calling it a base , it is also a national park,

[Botany]

12. Good! I hope people are held accountable for their actions.

There were signs up that said, “Area 60 photography and video recording forbidden.

And this former Sumo Wrestler was one of the thugs.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-face-of-donald-trumps-deceptively-savvy-media-strategy

[hawkeye21]

13. So how many years will this "investigation" take?

It's been more than 3 1/2 years since Trump tried to overthrow the government. You might remember Jan. 6, 2021. How's that case going?

Trump's own lawyers told him he should expect to be arrested on Jan. 7, 2021.

On Sept. 18, 2024, Trump is still waiting for that arrest.

Only in America can you lead a failed coup, live on TV, and remain free to lie, cheat, steal, intimidate, lie, steal, lie and run for president while being a 78-year-old sociopath, malignant narcissist, and traitor.

It ain't cynical. Like it or not, it's the simple, disgusting truth.

[Hekate]

14. Good

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Ah! All crime is local. Nasty jurisdiction that.