Trump posted on social media a video of him laying flowers at a grave and walking among headstones with a voiceover of himself criticizing casualties in Afghanistan.
“I think John McCain would find it abhorrent that Donald Trump, who called veterans losers and suckers, would use the most hallowed ground in our country as a political stage,” Wes Gullett told 12News on Thursday. Gullett, a political consultant in Phoenix, began working with McCain during his 1986 Senate race and said McCain was like an older brother to him until his death in 2018. Gullett is now a leader of the Republicans for Harris campaign in Arizona.
Trump used video to criticize casualties in Afghanistan
On Monday, Trump used the grounds of the cemetery as video content for a social media post he circulated online. Federal regulations bar “partisan political activities” at memorial services at Army cemeteries, and the Army said they provided Trump aides a set of rules days in advance of their visit …