I wanted to follow up on what I wrote yesterday because the story has gotten even worse over in the last 24 hours.

The Arlington Cemetery employee who was assaulted by a member of TFG’s team will not be filing a complaint:

During August 26th ceremony and the subsequent Section 60 visit by former President Trump an Arlington National Cemetery employee “who attempted to ensure adherence to these rules was abruptly pushed aside. … The incident was reported to the JBM-HH police department, but the employee subsequently decided not to press charges. Therefore, the Army considers this matter closed,” according to a US Army statement.

And we know why she declined to press charges—because MAGAts are violent thugs who seek to harm people who criticize their hero.

There’s also a good chance that the person who assaulted her is Corey Lewandowski since he was with TFG at the cemetery, and he has a documented history of assaulting and stalking women.

We learned that TFG was clearly informed ahead of time about what was allowed at the cemetery:

The defense official told the AP that the Trump campaign was warned about not taking photographs in Section 60 before their arrival and the altercation. Trump was at Arlington on Monday at the invitation of some of the families of the 13 service members who were killed in the Kabul airport bombing exactly three years prior.

We learned that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson played a role in getting TFG access to the cemetery:

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson had to intervene to get former President Donald Trump into Arlington National Cemetery for the third anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal with Gold Star families, a family told the Daily Caller.

The Gold Star families, who lost their children during the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, invited Trump to Arlington National Cemetery. He laid a wreath there for the 13 servicemembers who were killed serving their country in Afghanistan. However, a Gold Star family told the Caller that Arlington National Cemetery was trying to make it difficult for the former President to appear for the ceremony to honor their children, something the families requested.

Arlington National Cemetery told Gold Star families that they could only be there for a specific time that did not work for everyone’s schedule and were also told the president could not join them at their children’s gravesites, the family told the Caller.

Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Michael McCaul explained to the Caller that he was contacted by Gold Star parents Darin Hoover and Kelly Barnett, the parents of SSGT Taylor Hoover. Hoover and Barnett told him that Arlington Cemetery was giving the Gold Star parents of the U.S. servicemembers killed at Abbey Gate a hard time about coordinating a ceremony with Trump on the anniversary of their deaths.

McCaul immediately reached out to Johnson to ask for his assistance with the matter and the Caller is told he continued to track it until it was fixed.

What the actual fuck is going on here? Keep in mind that this story was leaked to make TFG look good. Instead the entire MAGA congressional delegation looks like petulant children insisting that they get special treatment even if it insults others. Also, think about that family that decided for all the other families with loved ones buried there that being part of TFG’s tawdry campaign was more important than respect—including their own self-respect.

And to that end, TFG’s campaigned released a video ad using the footage to push his candidacy, which I am not linking to because fuck giving that den of vipers any clicks.

And finally we also learned that the TFG Arlington Cemetery circus has now overspilled its banks and reached a family whose loved one’s grave is in the footage without permission, despite the protections the cemetery has set up to prevent all of this from happening:

The family of a Green Beret who died by suicide after serving eight combat tours and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery expressed concern Wednesday that Donald Trump’s campaign had filmed his grave site without permission as Trump stood in an area where campaign photography isn’t allowed.

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Marckesano died July 7, 2020, after moving to Washington to begin a job at the Pentagon. He had three children, and friends said he had chronic post-traumatic stress disorder from his time in combat. He earned Silver and Bronze Stars during his service. His grave site is adjacent to that of Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover, a Marine who was killed in the 2021 bombing at Abbey Gate outside the Kabul airport in Afghanistan.

The Hoover family granted permission to the Trump team to film and take photographs at the grave site; the Marckesano family did not, and filming and photographing at the grave site for political purposes is a violation of federal law, according to cemetery officials. Yet Marckesano’s grave was shown in photos from the visit that were published online. A video was posted to Trump’s TikTok account featuring footage from the Section 60 visit and the gravestones from behind, with narration criticizing the handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

I am so fucking sick of the filth and destruction of decency that TFG spreads everywhere.