Trump team is said to have pushed employees at a US military cemetery

Trump team is said to have pushed employees at a US military cemetery Article by RP ONLINE • 22 hours • 2 minutes reading time Washington. There has apparently been an unpleasant incident in Donald Trump's election campaign. His team is said to have pushed employees at a cemetery. What is known. Accompanied by high-ranking advisors, Donald Trump took part in a wreath-laying ceremony by family members of some military personnel. During a visit by Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, his team had an incident with employees of the military cemetery. The broadcaster NPR reported that someone from the cemetery's staff wanted to prevent Trump's speakers, where recordings are prohibited. The Trump team responded by pushing and insulting people. US Vice President Kamala Harris brought the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago to a close with a passionate appeal for a better future. The National Cemetery confirmed on Wednesday that there had been an "incident" on site. According to NPR, Trump's staff had wanted to film and photograph in an area reserved for the fallen of recent wars - and where recordings are prohibited. Accompanied by senior advisers, Trump took part in a wreath-laying ceremony on Monday by family members of some of the 13 military personnel killed in the final hours of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. The former US president had been invited to the ceremony by the families. Trump has made criticism of US President Joe Biden's handling of the final withdrawal from Afghanistan a key point of his election campaign ahead of the presidential election in November. He argues that he would have handled the withdrawal of soldiers better. The withdrawal was part of a peace agreement that the then Trump administration concluded with the Taliban in Doha in February 2020. After the visit to the cemetery in Arlington, Trump's campaign team published a photo of the former president with the families. Trump is giving a thumbs up. The national cemetery stated that federal law prohibits "political campaigning or election-related activities at the army's national military cemeteries, including photographers (...) or other persons who participate for the purposes of or in direct support of the campaign of a partisan candidate." The cemetery "affirmed the law and its prohibitions" and informed all participants of this. Trump's campaign co-manager Chris LaCivita published a different view of the incident, stating that "a despicable person" had blocked the former president's team from access. This "does not deserve to represent the sacred ground of Arlington National Cemetery," he said, and spoke of "disgrace." Trump himself also published a statement on online networks attributed to the families of the killed soldiers, in which they say they have agreed to the presence of Trump's media team. The incident in Arlington follows a whole series of controversies about Trump's relationship with the military. While the former president often touts his support for the armed forces, according to his former chief of staff, he privately mocked war dead as president and did not want to be seen near soldiers with amputations.