Trump put Tulsi Gabbard on CNN to wash up the aftermath of his Arlington Nationwide Cemetery scandal, and there have been some issues.
Video:
Dana Bash presses Tulsi Gabbard on Trump’s unlawful marketing campaign occasion at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery, and Gabbard doesn’t provide any proof that Trump didn’t break the regulation. pic.twitter.com/oK0OGIVL5S
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) September 1, 2024
Transcript through CNN:
BASH: Sure, three years in the past.
The query is in regards to the federal regulation and Arlington’s guidelines that prohibit partisan or political actions at nationwide cemeteries. And the navy and likewise different members of different households who’re buried proper close to there are upset in regards to the marketing campaign filming it and posting the video on-line.
Do you consider that was acceptable?
GABBARD: I checked with the marketing campaign on this query, they usually have exchanges with the officers at Arlington Cemetery. They have been accepted to deliver a digicam there to doc this historic and momentous day that shouldn’t be forgotten by any American.
And to have a former president there and becoming a member of these Gold Star households, I do know President Trump wished to share that with others, particularly given the truth that President Biden and Harris, I heard, have been invited by a few of these members of the family. They not solely didn’t come. They didn’t even reply to that invitation.
And now to have Kamala Harris put this assertion out yesterday saying that she stands with these households, she stands with the navy and with veterans, you solely have to take a look at the response that got here from the Gold Star households of those 13 service members of how offended they have been by that assertion, given she has not made any effort, not on that third anniversary or some other time, to name them instantly to supply her condolences and even apologies for his or her choices that led to the lack of their family members.
BASH: Do you suppose that the marketing campaign will launch that communication that you just’re speaking about? As a result of the Military is saying…
GABBARD: I assumed they already had. However…
BASH: … very clearly, very clearly that was — that they broke the foundations, as a result of it was clearly put out on-line photos, video meant as part of his marketing campaign.
GABBARD: I assumed they already had. I used to be knowledgeable that that they had come to an settlement, they might deliver a digicam there. And so far as I do know, within the public statements I’ve seen from the Military is that the matter is closed.
BASH: I feel the matter is closed in regards to the altercation, alleged altercation, which you didn’t see, however I’m undecided it’s closed with the concept they appear to have damaged the foundations and maybe even federal regulation by placing out the marketing campaign video.
Tulsi Gabbard wasn’t serving to, though she did repeat the Trump lie that Biden and Harris wouldn’t present up on the occasion. The explanation why Biden and Harris didn’t attend was as a result of it was a Trump marketing campaign occasion.
Gabbard couldn’t defend what Trump did. She supplied no proof that Trump had permission to movie a marketing campaign advert at Arlington.
Trump thought that he was resetting the election narrative and boosting his marketing campaign, however what he did was create a brand new scandal for himself. The entire stunt which was designed to make Trump appear like a troops supporting patriot has backfired and demonstrated Trump’s disrespect for the troops, the fallen, and the regulation.
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Member of the Society of Skilled Journalists and The American Political Science Affiliation
