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This is desecration.

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Agreed, Susan, and don't forget disgusting.

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Trump is a non stop disaster! Enough, my parents at ANC...86 45 STAT!!!

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People elsewhere have pointed out that it looks like an AI photo as well. I would not know. I cannot look at it.

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Yes, does look like AI: the people on the left look like they are from a different image, and the woman on the right has a hand that resembles a pig snout.

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Absolutely! What a pig!

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Steven Cheung is the one

with a mental health problem.

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He behaves like an elementary school kid: He responds to anything the Dems say by sticking out his tongue and yelling ”dumbass.” (Not kidding about the word; I've repeatedly seen him quoted as responding with "dumbass.")

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I had to google Cheung and he's every bit as scary as you might assume. He looks like he could play the villainous tough guy in every made for tv movie. Not to attack someone based on their personal appearance, as Dear Leader would never do, but if you look up "ugly" his face would have to be nearby. He came to Trump from the UFC where he was the media enforcer. Just another of the weirdos and misfits that Trump attracts.

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Steven Cheung looks like a human dildo.

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That's an insult to dildos.

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What a disgrace he is to all Chinese Americans! And a disgrace to his race: the HUMAN race!

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His parents are immigrants. And yet he goes MAGA. Idiot

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Not to get overly clinical, but there is extensive written and visual evidence that dildos are designed to, and succeed at, giving pleasure to the dildoee. I'm not going to try to envision any pleasure a thug like Mr. Cheung could provide.

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Villains in my fave grainy '30s Hong Kong-set movies looked just like this! Isn't he what should be expected from politics' biggest champion of Central Casting?

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That is EXACTLY what he looks like. Plus being one nasty piece of work in general.

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What is UFC? People here keep using these acronyms that I don’t understand.

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Ultimate Fighting Championships - mixed martial arts production co from Vegas

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Sounds like what he should go back to.

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It should repeatedly be brought up that DT loves that stuff, was involved in it.

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Unreconstructed Foes of Conscience?

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Over the course of my career, I shot a lot of boxing events for various employers (HBO, ESPN, Fox, Showtime, etc.), but worked only one UFC show ever. Between the brutality in the ring and the absurd, agro bloodlust of the crowd, I found it to be a huge, disgusting turnoff.

I never took another job covering what one of my favorite Directors referred to as "Human Cockfighting".

I'd prefer to stay home and not get paid, it's that bad.

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Oddjob.

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I thought so too

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His gaggle of asshats.

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Jabba the Mutt. Straight out of central casting for the role of a lifetime. Can't wait to watch him go down hissing his putrid bile with the rabid ship of fools. Please, please, please let it be.

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I call him Oddjob, for James Bond movies.

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I read the so called 'mental health problem guy' is actually an official who works at Arlington. A complaint has been lodged against the Trump campaign. Will it go anywhere? - any more than anything has up till now?

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The mental health person is female. Push the lady. Say she’s crazy. Usual misogynistic playbook.

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Exactly...the usual disgusting behavior.

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Oddjob reincarnated.

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Our nation needs to move on from him and make him irrelevant forever so our collective mental trauma can heal.

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MJ, you’re mastery of words is good

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I agree that removing this wannabe god-emperor piece of excrement from our lives will help, but would all the miscreant, bigoted, barbarian, bobble-headed sycophants that crawled out out from under a rock to worship him disappear too?

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There are so many things grotesque and debasing about this incident it is hard to describe them with any sense of decency and respect for the fallen.

First, a man who is on record as calling fallen war dead "suckers and losers" is able to use the national monument for our fallen as a set for a photo op.

Second, he and his team violate a rule that no one is allowed in Section 60 for photos. Worse, two of his staff rough up the cemetery guard who tried to stop them and then deny it. OBTW there is according to the Trump team "video" to prove the point they did not assault the employee. That video has not been released.

But, and htis pains me to say but it must be emphasized what in God's name are the families of the fallen doing by using themselves and the tragedy of their loss as props in the campaign for this man? Have they such little understanding of what this place and this hallowed ground means to all of us?

Trump has no bottom to the depths he will sink to debase this nation and its values. He came very close with this one but the biggest shame is he was aided and abetted by the surviving family who in their grief have lost their minds also. I am sure I will be criticized for saying that but someone has to point out just how gob smack delusional some of have become supporting a cretin like Trump. Their sons and daughters did not make the ultimate sacrifice for that.

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Trump has repeatedly used the families of victims as his props, i.e. the Gold Star families, time and time again and most recently at the RNC convention. As to why police and military, and their families, keep letting themselves be used by him we can only assume they have the same fascist leanings that he claims.

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That is, unfortunately, the most likely answer. Both the military and the police attract a lot of right-wingers.

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Especially the Air Force Academy CINO cult!!!

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Christian In Name Only. I share you displeasure with people who do not define their acronyms. Glad the Air Force Academy is mentioned. It's become a traitorous institution from Congressional neglect of its operations.

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Anther mystery acronym! What is CINO, please???

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Unless I'm misreading (again), Glen just told us—CINO is Christian In Name Only. … To certain New Yorkers, CINO is foreverJoe Cino, beloved, legendary owner of Caffe Cino.

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😰😱 MIlitary and police training attracts a lot of folks who were bullied and picked on in school. There used to be psyche testing to weed out those folks who would have a taste for pushing back or revenge--who would misuse military or police powers. Does psyche testing still occur?

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He has them hypnotized - they're rooting for someone who does NOT have their best interests at heart! Why oh why can't they understand this?

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The family of the fallen must be ignorant of the reality behind WHY their loved one died there -- it was a direct result of the circumstances set In motion when Trump himself started the pullout -- negotiating it with the Taliban, ignoring the government in Kabul, pulling out most of the military support that a withdrawal would have needed ... leaving the hardest part -- taking out diplomats and our allies - to the next guy...

Trump already showed us he was willing to abandon our Middle Eastern allies when he left the Kurds to their fate in Syria. He demonstrated how much he does NOT care about our fellow human beings by his behavior on our border -- ESPECIALLY fragmenting families and losing their children!!! And he wants to just GIVE Ukraine to Putin!!-- He is a MONSTER.

We have to defeat him in November. We cannot have that monster in Washington again ...

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Shitler not only negotiated with the Taliban, but he also released 5,000 Taliban fighters just to fuck it up for Joe who had to stick to the timeline for withdrawal that Shitler made.

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And people approving his use of their fallen family don't KNOW that!! It makes me crazy that people don't get the truth, and then they listen to Shitler.

AAAAAHHHH!

How tone deaf does a person have to be to hear that Donald thinks God was on his side when he did not get shot in the head, but that poor father protecting his family DID die -- Did God not give a damn about that Dad? -- and the woman would not take a condolence call from Biden....

EGAD, what are people using for brains these days ... ?

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The maggots’ brains shriveled up from disuse once they began to worship Dumbass.

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Shitler's misogyny revels at silent covered Afghan women shut indoors. Thrown out by the world. It's atrocious and very much to his hateful liking

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Mary, you are my kinda Grandma

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Are you really asking Americans to have that much in depth knowledge of foreign affairs and national security before they make their mind up on who is capable of being CinC? Good luck with that. Remember we are the nation which wants our information in bite size simplistic pieces so we can worry about the important stuff. You know, my upcoming NFL Fantasy Draft!

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🏆😔

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Do we know for sure they are really family members and not just props themselves?

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There is a lot of A I in the photo. It's cropped here but in the full photo the woman on the left has three hands. In another wide-angle photo a person in a wheelchair has been dropped in front of Drumpf. You know he would never allow that.

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they didn't look very grief stricken - just obsequious

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By definition anyone willing to help that creature win another term is 100% obsequious.

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Obsequious is WAY too mild a term. They are morally worthless human garbage!

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I wonder if he paid the families to be there?

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Ha!

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Good point!

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"But, and htis pains me to say but it must be emphasized what in God's name are the families of the fallen doing by using themselves and the tragedy of their loss as props in the campaign for this man?"

+100 for you drilling down to the family. Nothing happens in a vacuum. There is an interesting backstory to the family that might assist in addressing your question. (see below)

-Why didn't the U.S. government pay to fly Nicole Gee to her final resting place?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ5_N-JUTec

-Nicole Gee's family asked to pay $60000 ...

Sacramento Bee

https://www.sacbee.com › local › article277683098

Both stories' headlines are another example of how today's media rolls however the content in both contradicts their headline.

Note: will not comment on the incident @Arlington because the facts haven't been made public nor has the attribution of the pic(s). Surprised some are claiming it's AI-generated. How would they know?

Will comment on the media and Trump et al framing the withdrawal as chaotic. US-NATO airlifted 124,000 souls from Kabul IA, the largest airlift in mil history. The US-NATO was not in charge of securing the outer rings of the security perimeter, the new Af government was. It was their dirt, not ours. Find the story of a single SB causing the deaths of a min. of 176 and wounding more to be implausible. Find the label chaotic to be a deflection away from the terms negotiated by Pompeo and Trump w/the Taliban that excludes the sitting Af government.

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Stunningly, Trump's "What's in it for them?" was made at Arlington to Gen. John Kelley whose son had been buried there.

"Reporting from Arlington, Va. — Amid a military tradition honed by the agony of warfare, Marine 1st Lt. Robert Michael Kelly was honored and buried Monday at Arlington National Cemetery in the section reserved for those who have fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Kelly, 29, was killed Nov. 9 (2010) in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan in a disheveled place called Sangin, long a Taliban stronghold. He was leading his platoon on a combat patrol when he stepped on a concealed bomb."

Trump is the worst human in America.

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In the race to worst, Trump and his crew of "handlers" are in a giant photo-finish.

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The fact that he did it when he repeatedly denigrates the men and women sworn to protect this country. As the daughter of a doctor who was wounded tending to soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge - I am horrified

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As the niece of a man who suffered a severe head wound during the Battle of the Bulge, I agree with you.

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I’m sorry to hear that.

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Thank you, on behalf of my father, an infantry captain there, and his men.

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Just when you think he's sunk as low as he can, he pulls something like this. Gross.

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“Grotesque” is the word for it, Lucian. His entourage’s thuggish treatment of an employee is straight out of the brownshirt playbook, too.

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I hope the person who fought with the cemetery official is arrested.

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Don’t hold your breath til that happens!

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Like gassing protestors to get that bible church shot. Sick shit.

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Well, Corey Lewandowski is back, the other sexual predator and this looks like the kind of photo op he would think appropriate, and we all know how appropriate Corey is.

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Since Shadowcloud proposed a comment of the day award, I nominate yours today, Mary Virginia. It explains in one name why things are likely to get crazier and crazier till … well, till djt is behind bars. And remember Steve Bannon will get out just before the election.

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I heard that MANAFORT is back too? JFC

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Yeah, Manafort too. But he seemed to function before mostly as a quiet conduit between the big liar and Moscow treasure, not as one of the dudes steering djt toward ever more distant shores of mad behavior.

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Also obvi got his old portfolio of Mideast adjacent dictators for the good old days when a ho could strut that ostrich blazer

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Aug 29Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

Thanks for the laugh. I had forgotten the unforgettable.

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Thank you! LOL. I do appreciate that.

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He's also the type who would 'tousle' with an official!

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He definitely is. He's a troublemaker through and through and externally and internally and all over the world. I do not get his appeal. He's not even good looking.

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Only Trump would disrespect the resting place of an American military hero for his own political gain. I can’t wait for him to lose the election and then be sentenced to prison. As for his spokesperson Steven Cheung’s remarks, someone needs to kick his ass.

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The ass-kicker’s foot would disappear, never to be found again.

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🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🥰

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Isn't interesting that no corporate media seems to have noticed that the woman next to Trump is showing the white power hand sign? That goes way beyond desecration,

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Thank you for pointing this out. I had missed it, and I think most other people did as well. Just when you think it can't get worse, it does.

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Actually Nicole Gee is not making a White Power hand sign, nor is the young woman on Trump's left. The White Power sign has three fingers extended and the thumb and forefinger joined in a sign similar to "OK!" Sgt. Gee and the unidentified female are doing a "Hook 'em Horns" sign with two fingers extended. The sign may be used for other purposes as well, but it is different from the white power sign.

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Wow, I looked at it as Hail Satan but hey just college locker room stuff, totally appropriate for graveside campaign shilling. Where idiot Tuberville to take a crap on military readiness and morale too?

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I thought it was the sign for "bullshit" in American Sign Language. Two of them are throwing signs, whatever they mean.

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Yes, the woman on the far left in the uncropped pic is displaying the same hand signal as the one next to trump, but with the back of her hand facing outwards.

UPDATE: a google image search of Nicole Gee, (the name on the tombstone) shows photos of her making that very sign, so it must have some appropriate significance.

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What a catch, David!!! Wow.

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She is also very proud of her forearm tattoos. Wonder what those say. Pure trash.

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Jesus wept.

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That's obscene. I worked in the building trades in Brooklyn and Manhattan in the early 1980s when this guy first splashed onto the scene in a cloud of hot-glued macaroni and gold radiator paint. He was a joke, a grifter and a scumbag then, and EVERYBODY knew it. I still don't understand how he ever convinced such a sizeable sector of the electorate that he was anything else. Don't they encounter enough scumbags in their own daily lives to know one when they see one? It's baffling.

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That may be the best description ever of djt's NYC breakthrough years, Christopher. A lot of what kept the tabloid heds flowing was the grotesqueness, both him and his surround—Roy, Ivana, Marla. …. But I worked with one stylish, ambitious UES woman who inexplicably bought the whole package. Then she multiplied exponentially and here we are.

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How could a self-respecting UES (New York City's Upper East Side for the abbreviation-challenged) woman "have bought the whole package" from a Bridge and Tunnel putz? ("Bridge and Tunnel" was, maybe still is, the way Manhattan snobolas referred to those "outer borough and Joiseyites who had and have to get into Manhattan every day using one of the bridges or tunnels. Staten Island residents arriving by ferry, not a bridge or tunnel, presumably live in a different area in Hell.

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The weekly I worked for at the time, the then-start-up nyObserver, was looking for a lot of luxury boutique display advertising and she was exactly the type you'd expect to be able to sell space to those businesses. I barely knew her but she seemed to be nice enough. As I said, the soft spot for djt was inexplicable. It takes all types and she was one that I, a resolute downtown type, normally never run into.

I must say, these times are the revenge on Manhattan of the bridge and tunnel putzes. They've learned to appreciate the comforts of home—or the Murdoch media have scared them into staying there—and NYC is suffering for it. This week AM WCBS, on air for a century, all-news for 57 years, retired the call letters and went to full-time sports.

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Two words - Mark Burnett.

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Burnett needs to release the n-word tapes he bragged about having

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Even as somebidy who never saw one of his shows, I know Mark Burnett has a lot to answer for.

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🏆🏆😂😩

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It's despicable...and the people around him, smiling with their thumbs up, are also despicable. When can we finally be rid of this horrible, evil human being??

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Antichrist

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My first thought when I saw him in Arlington National Cemetery was what the hell is he doing there? I was disgusted and angry. Then it hit the news. What he did was illegal. Bastard.

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This is grotesque, even by Trumpian standards. The Trump campaign IS a "mental health episode." And that Arlington employee should sue them for libel.

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Press assault and battery charges

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... and slander.

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