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Trump’s Former Sec. Def. Mark Esper: “There is no more hallowed ground in this nation than Arlington Cemetery…I think it should be investigated…no person or party on either side should ever use Arlington National Cemetery…for partisan political purposes.”
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Trump’s Former Sec. Def. Mark Esper: “There is no more hallowed ground in this nation than Arlington Cemetery…I think it should be investigated…no person or party on either side should ever use Arlington National Cemetery…for partisan political purposes.”
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Trump forner Homeland Security director is directing "war games" for project 2025 Heritage Foundation on how to deploy US soldiers to US cities should Trump win re-election he 2024 election
How MAGA Is Already Justifying The Use Of Military Force At Home If Trump Wins
How MAGA Is Already Justifying The Use Of Military Force At Home If Trump Wins
How MAGA Is Already Justifying The Use Of Military Force At Home If Trump Wins
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Trump has now lost $4 billion in personal wealth as Truth Social stock hits new all-time low
According to Forbes, former President Donald Trump's net worth went from $2.6 billion in October 2023 to $7.5 billion in May 2024. But he's since been reeling from his signature stock taking a beating in financial markets.
The wild swings in the former president's net worth has a lot to do with Trump's tech company Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which includes his Truth Social platform and became publicly traded earlier this year. But the value of Trump Media stock has fluctuated wildly in 2024, causing Trump's net worth to fluctuate as well.
According to Yahoo Finance, the value of Truth Social stock is now roughly $19.50 per share. But back in March, after the IPO (initial public offering) launch, Trump Media stock was valued at $71.93 per share. And that type of fluctuation with Truth Social shares also means fluctuation for Trump's net worth.
Bloomberg News, on August 20, reported that Donald Trump would soon be allowed to sell as many Trump Media shares as he wants.
Trump, according to Bloomberg News, owns around 78 million shares in TMTG, meaning his stake was worth $5.6 billion at the time of the IPO. Wednesday's new share price now means his stake is worth $1.5 billion — a loss of more than $5 billion in value. And Michael Ohlrogg, a New York University professor, noted that if Trump sold too many of them, it could "be perceived as sending a signal about his lack of confidence in the company."
Ohlrogge told Bloomberg News, "This could look bad in its own right, and a drop in share price could look bad for him as well."
Another factor to consider when weighing Trump's net worth is his legal expenses. The former president is presently facing three active criminal indictments (down from four after Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case) as well as a range of civil lawsuits and judgements.
$1.5 billion worth of stock in an app that's a complete money laundering fraud is still $1.5 billion too much.
Please check my math. If that is all true he is worth $1.1B without Truth stocks. He inherited a couple hundred million from his father which would be ~$500M in todays dollars. So in the past 25 years Donald has at best doubled his net worth. He didn't even keep up with the stock market. What a brilliant businessman.
Desperation is a stinky cologne.
Epitaph on his tombstone
Meiselas: This morning, Donald Trump is calling for public military tribunals involving former President Barack Obama
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Meiselas: This morning, Donald Trump is calling for public military tribunals involving former President Barack Obama
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Vance: “You’re acting like Donald Trump filmed a TV commercial at a gravesite. He was there providing emotional support to brave Americans who lost loved ones and there happened to be a camera there.”
YES HE FILMED A LITERAL TV COMMERCIAL AT A GRAVESITE AND PUT IT OUT TODAY
YES HE FILMED A LITERAL TV COMMERCIAL AT A GRAVESITE AND PUT IT OUT TODAY
He did it for a Tik Tock video
Trump Posts Campaign Video Filmed at Arlington National Cemetery Visit After Altercation
Donald Trump posted a campaign video to TikTok showing him visiting Arlington National Cemetery two days after some of his aides and staff on the grounds had a reported physical altercation about taking photographs and video on the premises.The video shows Trump visiting graves, posing for photos with Gold Star families and participating in the wreath-laying ceremony in what appears to be Section 60 of the cemetery ― a space reserved for recently buried soldiers. The visit was held to mark the third anniversary of an attack on American troops during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Trump makes a clear political statement in the video, which plays audio of him boasting that his administration “didn’t lose one person in 18 months” in Afghanistan but that pulling out the troops was a “disaster” that resulted in 13 soldiers’ deaths under Joe Biden’s administration. The video caption reads: “Should have never happened.”
Details of Monday’s alleged altercation were first reported by NPR, which cited a source saying that two Trump campaign staffers “verbally abused and pushed the [cemetery] official aside” after the cemetery staff informed the campaign that only cemetery officials are allowed to take photos or video in Section 60.
Arlington National Cemetery later confirmed that an “incident” occurred and a report had been filed.
“Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign,” the cemetery, which is maintained by the U.S. Army, said in a statement. “Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants.”
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told NPR “there was no physical altercation as described, and we are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made.”
“The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump’s team during a very solemn ceremony,” he continued.
Trump has yet to issue his own statement on the controversy.
The family of the late Master Sgt. Andrew Marckesano, a Green Beret who died by suicide after serving several combat tours and suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, also spoke out Wednesday about Trump’s cemetery visit, saying they were upset about him filming near his grave.
“According to our conversation with Arlington National Cemetery, the Trump campaign staffers did not adhere to the rules that were set in place for this visit to Staff Sergeant Hoover’s gravesite in Section 60, which lays directly next to my brother’s grave,” Marckesano’s sister Michele told The New York Times.
“We hope that those visiting this sacred site understand that these were real people who sacrificed for our freedom and that they are honored and respected accordingly,” she added.
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Calls Out Trump: 'Sacred Ground'
The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) has criticized former President Donald Trump for "politicking" on "sacred ground" during a visit to Arlington National Cemetery.
IAVA chief executive Allison Jaslow told Newsweek that Arlington should be free from politics. "When I visit Section 60, it is to honor the fallen and remind myself that I was one of the lucky ones who made it home," she said. "There are plenty of places appropriate for politics—Arlington is not one of them."
Despite being told by a cemetery official not to do so, the Trump campaign took photographs and video footage in Section 60, an area reserved for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Any aspiring elected official, especially one who hopes to be Commander-in-Chief, should not be confused about that fact. Nor should they hide behind members of our community to justify politicking on such sacred ground."
The criticism comes after Trump attended a wreath-laying ceremony on Monday commemorating American soldiers who died in the 2021 Kabul airport attack during the U.S. Military's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Trump has faced backlash, first after his campaign staff had an altercation with a cemetery official trying to prevent them from taking videos and photographs in Section 60, and later for posting footage of the event in a TikTok video that included partisan remarks.
The official filed an incident report with military authorities over the altercation. However, the woman, who has not been identified, later declined to press charges. Military officials said she feared retaliation from Trump supporters.
Trump's campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung denied that the campaign was prohibited from filming in Section 60, and posted a screenshot on his X, formerly Twitter, account that stated the former president's team had permission to bring a photographer or videographer, "outside the main media pool," and that they had permission of one of the families to film and photograph a grave site, but Arlington National Cemetery said in an official statement that filming and campaigning there was in violation of federal law.
Cheung told Newsweek that there was no physical altercation as described in media reports and that he was "prepared to release footage" to prove it, but he did not produce the footage when asked.
The TikTok video produced using the footage from the event showed Trump smiling and laying a wreath while a guitar track played in the background, as well as a voice-over criticizing "they" [the Biden administration] for their handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. It is captioned, "Should never have happened."
Title 32, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Section 553.32(c) states: "Memorial services and ceremonies at Army National Military Cemeteries will not include partisan political activities."
As well as the TikTok video, a photograph was circulated on social media of Trump in Section 60 smiling and giving a thumbs up next to the grave of Staff Sergeant Darin Taylor Hoover, one of the Marines who died in the Kabul Airport attack.
Despite being told by the official that campaigning and photography was not allowed in Section 60, Hoover's family gave Trump's campaign permission to take the photo.
However, another grave is visible in the photograph, that of Master Sergeant Andrew Marckesano, a Green Beret who died in 2020. The New York Times reported that Marckesano's relatives did not give Trump's campaign permission to photograph his grave site.
The video and the altercation prompted criticism from veterans and former Trump administration members, including Alyssa Farah Griffin, who called the video "deeply inappropriate" and "disgraceful and disparaging to veterans."
"There are strict protocols at Arlington National Cemetery, and photography is limited to certain areas," Griffin explained. "A professional team would have known that."
Trump's running mate JD Vance dismissed the incident as media exaggeration, saying, "It is amazing to me that you have, apparently somebody at Arlington Cemetery, some staff member had a little disagreement with somebody, and they have turned the media has turned this into a national news story."
Trump has offended veterans several times in the past.
Earlier in August, Trump he said that the civilian Presidential Medal of Freedom was "much better" than the Medal of Honor, the highest U.S. Military honor, because many Medal of Honor recipients are wounded or dead.
Trump also drew criticism in 2015 when he said that Arizona Senator John McCain was "not a war hero."
"He's a war hero because he was captured," Trump told an Iowa audience. "I like soldiers who weren't captured."
McCain was held and tortured as a prisoner of war for five and a half years during the Vietnam War.
Trump also drew the ire of veterans in 2016, when the father of a slain soldier and Gold Star recipient said Trump had "sacrificed nothing," while his son had given his life for his country. Trump responded by bringing up his own sacrifices.
"I think I've made a lot of sacrifices," Trump said in response. "I work very, very hard."
“Keeping the boss happy has been a central issue within the Trump campaign over the last several weeks. On Saturday, The Washington Post reported that aides to the former president were intentionally trying to engineer distractions for an increasingly sullen and angry Trump. Aides testified anonymously to scheduling a series of campaign events in order to keep Trump from retreating to his safe space — the golf course — and letting Harris dominate the post-DNC spotlight.”
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“Keeping the boss happy has been a central issue within the Trump campaign over the last several weeks. On Saturday, The Washington Post reported that aides to the former president were intentionally trying to engineer distractions for an increasingly sullen and angry Trump. Aides testified...
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