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Democrats call for report into Trump Arlington national cemetery altercation

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The ex-president is facing scrutiny after apparently violating rules in veterans cemetery by filming campaign ad

Democrats have called for a US army report into an apparent altercation that erupted when Donald Trump attended a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington national cemetery commemorating the 13 soldiers killed in a suicide bombing during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

In a letter to the US army secretary, Christine Wormuth, Democrats with the House oversight committee requested a report by Monday into a reported showdown between a cemetery employee and the former president’s staff, including whether the Republican nominee’s “campaign staff violated federal law or cemetery rules and whether the Trump campaign informed the families of service members buried at the cemetery that their gravestones would be used in Mr Trump’s political campaign ads”, as CBS reported.

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