What's All This Fuss?

Julius Domingus Vance would have us believe that the scene at Arlington National Cemetery last week was "a little disagreement." Specifically, he insisted that “It is amazing to me that . . . some staff member had a little disagreement with somebody and the media has turned this into a national news story." 

For the record, the media is reporting that "Two members of Donald Trump's campaign staff had a verbal and physical altercation Monday with an official at Arlington National Cemetery, where the former president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony." The photo op that the ex-"president" was creating took place in the cemetery's Section 60, where only Arlington staff are allowed to take pictures or film. According to the National Cemetery's media policy, photography and video are not authorized “for partisan, political or fundraising purposes, in accordance with the Hatch Act.” Which would seem to suggest that a presidential candidate showing up without specific authorization or clearance for the purposes of taking a few "candid" shots with grieving families is a violation of that policy. Which is why the convicted felon's minions felt it would be a good thing to release this statement: "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." 

Wasn't this the same guy who had police tear gas protesters so that he could stand in front of a church, holding up a bible? Excuse me: Wasn't this the same guy who allegedly had police tear gas protesters so that he could stand in front of a church, holding up a bible? Sorry. Wasn't this the same guy who allegedly had police tear gas protesters so that he could stand in front of a church, holding up a bible upside down? The bible, not the ex-president. Was upside down. 

This time, instead of holding a bible upside down, the convicted felon posed grinning, with his thumb up, over the graves of fallen soldiers. Very familiar to those who recall the victim of bone spurs that seem to have healed as quickly as his ear and his treatment of our veterans. Once is a mistake. Two is a trend. A lifetime? I'm beginning to believe that The Orange One has issues with our military. 

That's a national news story.