• jballs
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    3 months ago

    The article does a better job of explaining it. But the people mentioned who are complaining were the family of another soldier whose gravestone was in the picture. The people giving the thumbs up posing with Trump are another family of a different soldier.

    The Trump campaign is saying that they were invited there and given permission to take a picture. The invite and permission came from the family in the picture, but there is a federal law against taking campaign photos there for situations just like this. It’s incredibly tacky and disrespectful to take thumbs up photos for a political campaign on other people’s graves, even if a few living people said it was ok.

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      3 months ago

      The worst part of all this is Trump set up the conditions for Abbey Gate. By the time Biden took office there wasn’t anything he could do short of throwing a couple infantry divisions back into the Afghanistan and telling everyone to leave right away because the ANA wouldn’t hold. At which point he needs more infantry divisions because that announcement would create chaos in the country. And that presupposes they successfully figure out just how badly the Afghan National Army’s readiness was misreported and they get honest reporting from their contractors about the loyalty of the governors, after 4 years of replacing anyone who didn’t report good things.

      Trump is the worst kind of grifter, he killed that man and told his family that it was Biden’s fault because Biden got stuck with Trump’s grenade after Trump pulled the pin.

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      Yeah, but see that family that invited him there was “special” and the laws don’t apply to them or to Trump when they say they don’t. Typical fucking MAGAts.