Trump's team was told he could attend only in his personal capacity and that campaign staff members were not allowed. Some of his top campaign staffers reportedly attended Monday's event despite the rules set by cemetery officials. Also in attendance were several Republican politicians, including Governor Spencer Cox of Utah, now under fire for using a photo of the event in a re-election campaign fundraising email.
"No hats, signs or banners were allowed, according to military officials," The Post also reported. "No speeches. Reporters and photographers could follow Trump for a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns, but not to the 14-acre plot where veterans from recent wars are buried, known as Section 60. The media was kept away, unable to see the altercation — or anything else, for that matter — during that part of his visit."
That "altercation," reportedly involved a cemetery official who later filed a report stating Trump's team verbally and physically assaulted her, according to multiple reports. She has said she is unwilling to press charges out of fear of retaliation from Trump's supporters, according to The New York Times. The Trump campaign denies the allegations while campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told The Times the reason for her decision to refuse to press charges “is ridiculous and sounds like someone who has Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
From a pro-life perspective, though, it’s actually worse than that. Trump has done what no Democrat—not Bill or Hillary Clinton, not Mario Cuomo or John Kerry, not Joe Biden or Barack Obama, not any Democrat—could have done. He has, at the national level, made the Republican Party de facto pro-choice. Having stripped the pro-life plank from the GOP platform, having said that Governor Ron DeSantis’s ban on abortion after six weeks is “too harsh” and a “terrible mistake,” and having promised to veto a national abortion ban, Trump has now gone one step further, essentially advocating for greater access to abortion.
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To make the point as succinctly as I can make it, then, what I find fascinating about ex-Twitter's engagement collapse is that it shouldn't even be possible to engineer one so dramatic. That's what's so mystifying: No matter how much Elon Musk sucks at business, from a strictly technical sense he would have had to all but set fire to the company's server banks to shed active users at the rate he's shedding them. This isn't about "oh, the company's so much more tolerant of white supremacists now." Take a good look at America: Do you really think Americans shy away from involving themselves with white supremacists? Do we imagine ex-Twitter's userbase is shunning the platform because Musk owns it, or because he's unbanned some previously banned people? You and I wish.
No, what's happening here isn't a boycott or even general user ennui. Something broke, inside ex-Twitter, and it broke hard enough to force Twitter's own customer base off the platform in the rough span of a single year. If you're an author dependent on "X" to reach your fans, that's been catastrophic. If you're Elon Musk, it's almost comically humiliating—or would be, if he was paying attention. But from a strictly tech-and-tech-management perspective it's a fascinating development. It's like watching the peak-obliterating explosion of a long-dormant volcano. Scientists will want to put an array of instruments all around this thing, measuring every last twitch and tremor, to see just how the company's managers managed to achieve a scale of damage that's usually thought to be near-impossible.
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Kennedy’s campaign was built on contradictions. Although he has one of the most recognizable names in politics, he pitched himself as a benevolent outsider.... He would be admirably candid one minute and obfuscate or lie the next (especially when discussing his record on vaccines). He would draw false equivalencies and peddle misinformation. On the stump, Kennedy used to talk about the divisions that seemed to be cutting American society into pieces.... Now, sticking to his contradictory theme, he’s thrown in his lot with the most divisive figure in recent history.
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