Because they knew he was likely to violate the rules they laid out, and when a controlling entity knows a high-profile likely lawbreaker is incoming they should staff accordingly rather than pretend a single email means he’ll do it. It was worth their time to talk about it at high levels and define rules for his visit, it shouldn’t have been to a single woman to actually be there and tell him no. Just have some federal agents there to arrest them as soon as they do something illegal.
And yeah, now that he broke the law, they should prosecute him.
They had spoken to someone in his circle and explained the rules, and I’m sure they were assured they understood, so I don’t think it was until Trump and posse arrived at the cemetery they knew his campaign planned to go rouge. And again, you should be able to trust that a former US President of all people should be expected to follow the rules when visiting a cemetery for fallen soldiers.
Hind sight is also 20/20, and I don’t think anyone that day was expecting a former President to show up to Arlington to make a seen, and have campaign staff assault cemetery staff.
This isn’t hindsight. People were worried he’d politicize the event from the beginning. If he turned over a new leaf and surprised us all by respecting the solemnity of the cemetery, oh well, you’ve sent a couple extra staff out to waste some time for a contingency that didn’t come to pass.
Saying “you should be able to trust a former president” just completely ignores that this particular former president is well known and doesn’t care about rules. He literally incited an insurrection and then sat back and watched. There’s no excuse to be surprised by Trump at this point.
Because they knew he was likely to violate the rules they laid out, and when a controlling entity knows a high-profile likely lawbreaker is incoming they should staff accordingly rather than pretend a single email means he’ll do it. It was worth their time to talk about it at high levels and define rules for his visit, it shouldn’t have been to a single woman to actually be there and tell him no. Just have some federal agents there to arrest them as soon as they do something illegal.
And yeah, now that he broke the law, they should prosecute him.
They had spoken to someone in his circle and explained the rules, and I’m sure they were assured they understood, so I don’t think it was until Trump and posse arrived at the cemetery they knew his campaign planned to go rouge. And again, you should be able to trust that a former US President of all people should be expected to follow the rules when visiting a cemetery for fallen soldiers.
Hind sight is also 20/20, and I don’t think anyone that day was expecting a former President to show up to Arlington to make a seen, and have campaign staff assault cemetery staff.
This isn’t hindsight. People were worried he’d politicize the event from the beginning. If he turned over a new leaf and surprised us all by respecting the solemnity of the cemetery, oh well, you’ve sent a couple extra staff out to waste some time for a contingency that didn’t come to pass.
Saying “you should be able to trust a former president” just completely ignores that this particular former president is well known and doesn’t care about rules. He literally incited an insurrection and then sat back and watched. There’s no excuse to be surprised by Trump at this point.