Trump In HUGE Trouble Over Possibly Illegal Cemetery Photo Shoot

At a time when Donald Trump can’t afford any slip ups, his campaign made a massive unforced error this week during a photo op at Arlington National Cemetery. The former president appeared to take some pictures and lay a wreath, but now reports suggest that this whole incident may have been illegal. Making things even worse is the fact that his staff got into a fight at the event, and they then doubled down on the attacks after everything ended. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

As it stands right now, Donald Trump's campaign is in a position to where they can't afford a single misstep at all. They're already down in every single poll. Those polls are trending worse for Trump. He's losing the swing states. Everything is going just absolutely horrific for him. So the last thing they need is, you know, something crazy like, I don't know, getting into a physical fight at a cemetery. But that is exactly what happened this past Monday. Donald Trump showed up at Arlington National Cemetery for a photo op, which in and of itself is likely illegal. I'll get more to that in just a moment. Uh, but he showed up there to be with families who had lost, uh, their family members in the attack that took place in Afghanistan, uh, back in 2021. Trump, of course, has been trying to politicize that event, showing that this is President Biden's biggest failure.

He withdrew from Afghanistan and people died, which completely ignores the fact that many service members and civilians, United States civilian contractors, died in Afghanistan while Trump was president. Something he denies, but statistics prove people died while he was president in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, he showed up there, did a little photo op with the families where they're standing in front of their relatives grave, and Trump is giving two thumbs up and smiling, the biggest smile we've ever seen him smile. But prior to that event, according to reports, a cemetery worker went up to the campaign. 'cause they showed up there with their photographer, the videographer, the whole campaign rigamarole staffer went up to him and was like, Hey, um, it's actually illegal to do any kind of campaigning in a national military cemetery. You cannot do this. This is illegal. It doesn't matter if the families invited you or if they approved it.

This is the law. You can't do it. And according to what the reports say, at that point, two Trump staffers, uh, began both verbally and physically assaulting the cemetery worker. Now, the cemetery says that, yes, an event took place and a report has been filed. The Trump campaign, on the other hand said, Nope, nothing, nothing happened. We don't know what y'all are talking about. And to make it worse, Trump spokesperson, Stephen Chung, came out and may have ended up defaming this cemetery worker with his statement. Here is the statement released by Trump spokesperson, Stephen Chung. We are prepared to release footage of such defamatory claims are

Made, talking about an altercation taking place. 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, claiming this individual who worked at the cemetery was, in fact, having a mental health episode is a defamatory statement, Stephen, you cannot sit there and accuse a private citizen who was just doing their job of having a mental health episode. So, if I were this worker, if this person's name does become public, I guess I should say, because that would have to be a part of the criteria here. If this person's name becomes public, they should 100% sue Stephen Chung and the Trump campaign. And I'm not just talking about for a couple hundred thousand no go, tens of millions.