Ex-Trump protection secretary says Arlington cemetery ought to by no means be used for ‘partisan political functions’ – reside

Controversy brews over a report that campaign staffers for Donald Trump were involved in a physical altercation with an official from Arlington national cemetery, which he visited earlier this week. Trump’s former defense secretary Mark Esper told CNN he was waiting to hear the outcome of an investigation into the scuffle, while saying the cemetery should never be used for “partisan political purposes”. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris’s communications director indicated that her campaign and Trump’s were still not on the same page about the rules for their 10 September debate, with the sticking point being whether the candidates’ microphones would be live when it was not their turn to talk. Trump seems to want them switched off, while Harris’s people want them on.

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Here’s what else has happened today so far:

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  Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor who is Harris’s running mate, invited unionized firefighters to tune into the debate, saying: “It’s going to be good.”

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  Clips of JD Vance attacking people who do not have children keep emerging.

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  Trump continued to rail against the gag order imposed on him in his hush money case, saying it is preventing him from talking about the “most important and corrupt aspects” of his prosecution.

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Donald Trump yesterday said he had agreed on the rules for his 10 September debate with Kamala Harris, but a spokesman for the vice-president indicates they still are not on the same page over whether the microphones will be on or off when it is not a candidate’s turn to speak.

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Trump yesterday said he had agreed to the same rules that governed his June debate with Joe Biden. In that case, microphones were muted when it was not time for him or the president to talk.

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In an interview with CNN today, the Harris campaign’s communications director Michael Tyler implied that Trump had agreed that microphones would be on throughout – something the former president has not explicitly said.

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“We’re going to have a 90-minute debate. Both candidates have said that they are comfortable with live, unmuted microphones for the duration of the debate that allows for the free flow and exchange of ideas between the two candidates. I understand that Donald Trump’s team of handlers is now attempting to overrule him. But as insofar as the candidates themselves, we’re in total alignment that this should be a 90-minute debate with live microphones. And so that’s what we look forward to,” Tyler said.

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Asked if Harris would attend the debate, hosted by ABC News, if microphones are not always on, Tyler replied:

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We fully intend to debate. We’re going to be there. The question is, will Donald Trump commit to the terms that he’s publicly agreed to? Or will he let his team overrule him? So I guess we’ll see if when he shows up on September 10, which decision he has made.

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Mark Esper, a former defense secretary under Donald Trump, told CNN that he hoped the reported altercation between the former president’s staff and an official at Arlington national cemetery was investigated, while saying that the grounds should never be used for “partisan political purposes”:

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Trump SecDef Esper tells me he’s “anxious” to see what comes of Arlington investigation- “Bottom line: The principle is that no person or party, either side, should ever use Arlington National Cemetery – or any of our cemeteries or battlefields – for partisan political purposes.” pic.twitter.com/zazLTDGPUQ

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Esper served under Trump from 2019 until shortly after the 2020 election, when Trump fired him. The former defense chief has since decried Trump as a “threat to democracy”.

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Tim Walz encouraged unionized firefighters to watch Kamala Harris’s 10 September debate with Donald Trump, saying: “It’s going to be good.”

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“Kamala Harris, she’s ready to hold him accountable on the debate stage,” Walz said of Trump. He continued:

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Tell me you’re not looking forward to that. Look, I know you’re busy. You’re going to be watching Monday Night Football or something, but it’s going to be good. It’s going to be good because again, as I said, this is going to impact you. The things that are said on that debate stage are going to impact your retirement. They’re going to impact your kids, education, they’re going to impact infrastructure. These are things that matter to us.

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Tim Walz is now onstage at the International Association of Fire Fighters convention in Boston, where he’s talking about the Harris campaign’s policies towards labor unions.

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We’ll let you know what the Minnesota governor has to say.

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Two staffers for Donald Trump’s campaign had a “verbal and physical altercation” with an official at Arlington national cemetery over filming and taking photos in a section reserved for recent US casualties of war, NPR reports.

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The Trump campaign has denied the episode, which it blamed on an “unnamed individual” who was “clearly suffering from a mental health episode”. The national cemetery told NPR that it had filed a report over the incident.

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Here’s more:

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A source with knowledge of the incident said the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent US casualties are buried. The source said Arlington officials had made clear that only cemetery staff members would be authorized to take photographs or film in the area, known as Section 60.

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When the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering Section 60, campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside, according to the source.

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Trump participated in an event to mark the third anniversary of a deadly attack on US troops in Afghanistan as US forces withdrew from the country; 13 US service members were killed in the attack. The Trump campaign has blamed President Biden and Vice President Harris, now the Democratic presidential nominee, for the chaotic withdrawal.

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In a statement to NPR, Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign’s spokesman, strongly rejected the notion of a physical altercation, adding: ‘We are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made.

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‘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,’ Cheung said in the statement.

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The Trump campaign declined to make that footage immediately available.

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In a statement to NPR, Arlington National Cemetery said it ‘can confirm there was an incident, and a report was filed.’

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Kamala Harris has not done a single sit-down interview since embarking on her presidential campaign, but that will change on Thursday at 9pm ET when CNN airs a joint interview with Tim Walz.

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The network says the candidates will talk about their swing through Georgia, and we can expect the vice-president to also be asked for her thoughts on Joe Biden ending his bid for a second term and clearing the way for her to become the Democratic nominee.

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It’s just one interview, though, and is unlikely to quiet the attacks from Donald Trump, his running mate JD Vance and other Republicans who claim that Harris and Walz can’t handle scrutiny from the press. We’ll see if the pair schedule more encounters with the media in the weeks to come.

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Good morning, US politics blog readers. There are seven swing states whose voters are expected to decide the November presidential election: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina, Arizona and Georgia. It’s that last state which will be getting special attention from Kamala Harris and Tim Walz over the next two days, as they look to preserve inroads made by Joe Biden four years ago, when he became the first Democrat to win its electoral votes since 1992. The pair is kicking off a bus tour of the state’s southern counties on Wednesday that will culminate on Thursday with Harris holding a rally in Savannah.

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Their campaign says that Harris and Walz are aiming to build off their momentum from last week’s convention, when they accepted the party’s nomination amid enthusiasm from Democrats. They’re also aiming to win a state that may be the toughest to hold in November – polls generally show Donald Trump with the advantage among Georgia voters, though the gap has grown narrower since Harris entered the race. We’ll see what the vice-president and Minnesota governor encounter as they traverse the state today.

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  Trump earlier this week visited Arlington national cemetery, and his campaign staff had an altercation with an official who tried to prevent them from taking pictures in area where only employees are allowed to do so, NPR reports. The Trump campaign has rejected their description of events.

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  The Cook Political Report, the closely watched forecaster, now views North Carolina as a “toss up” in the presidential election. The state hasn’t voted for a Democratic candidate since 2008.

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  The Senate GOP campaign arm is buying ads for incumbent Ted Cruz, in a sign that polls of his re-election race against Democrat Colin Allred in the Republican bastion may be too close for comfort.

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Controversy brews over a report that marketing campaign staffers for Donald Trump had been concerned in a bodily altercation with an official from Arlington nationwide cemetery, which he visited earlier this week. Trump’s former protection secretary Mark Esper instructed CNN he was ready to listen to the result of an investigation into the scuffle, whereas saying the cemetery ought to by no means be used for “partisan political functions”. In the meantime, Kamala Harris’s communications director indicated that her marketing campaign and Trump’s had been nonetheless not on the identical web page concerning the guidelines for his or her 10 September debate, with the sticking level being whether or not the candidates’ microphones could be reside when it was not their flip to speak. Trump appears to need them switched off, whereas Harris’s folks need them on.

Right here’s what else has occurred in the present day up to now:

• Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor who’s Harris’s working mate, invited unionized firefighters to tune into the controversy, saying: “It’s going to be good.”

• Clips of JD Vance attacking individuals who don’t have kids hold rising.

• Trump continued to rail in opposition to the gag order imposed on him in his hush cash case, saying it’s stopping him from speaking concerning the “most necessary and corrupt points” of his prosecution.

Donald Trump’s authorized troubles are clearly on his thoughts in the present day, if his latest Reality Social posts are any indication.

The particular counsel Jack Smith yesterday unveiled a brand new indictment of the previous president for his try and overturn the 2020 election. Whereas it doesn’t dramatically alter the details of the case, and seems principally a response to the supreme courtroom’s immunity choice handed down final month, the Guardian’s Victoria Bekiempis stories in our Trump on Trial e-newsletter that it might be an indication the previous president’s luck within the courts has run out:

Donald Trump is in the meantime busy on Reality Social, posting about varied issues on his thoughts, together with the gag order he stays below in his New York hush-money case.

The order prevents him from making statements about prosecutors, courtroom workers and their households, not less than till his 18 September sentencing date. That’s a reasonably small group of individuals, however Trump is nonetheless very upset about it, as he wrote:

When requested concerning the lawless Manhattan D.A. Hoax, I’m not allowed to speak about a very powerful and corrupt points of it, due to the utterly unConstitutional Gag Order. I’m the primary Candidate in American Historical past who isn’t allowed to freely talk about a serious Witch Hunt being perpetrated in opposition to him. I have to be instantly launched from the Gag Order, so I can proceed to show the Weaponization of our Justice System by the Radical Democrats. The GOOD NEWS is that the American Individuals see via these Witch Hunts, and can deliver us a dominant Victory on November fifth. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Harris marketing campaign spokesman says query of reside microphones in debate with Trump nonetheless undecided

Donald Trump yesterday stated he had agreed on the principles for his 10 September debate with Kamala Harris, however a spokesman for the vice-president signifies they nonetheless will not be on the identical web page over whether or not the microphones can be on or off when it isn’t a candidate’s flip to talk.

Trump yesterday stated he had agreed to the identical guidelines that ruled his June debate with Joe Biden. In that case, microphones had been muted when it was not time for him or the president to speak.

In an interview with CNN in the present day, the Harris marketing campaign’s communications director Michael Tyler implied that Trump had agreed that microphones could be on all through – one thing the previous president has not explicitly stated.

“We’re going to have a 90-minute debate. Each candidates have stated that they’re comfy with reside, unmuted microphones in the course of the controversy that enables for the free stream and change of concepts between the 2 candidates. I perceive that Donald Trump’s group of handlers is now making an attempt to overrule him. However as insofar because the candidates themselves, we’re in whole alignment that this must be a 90-minute debate with reside microphones. And in order that’s what we stay up for,” Tyler stated.

Requested if Harris would attend the controversy, hosted by ABC Information, if microphones will not be all the time on, Tyler replied:

We absolutely intend to debate. We’re going to be there. The query is, will Donald Trump decide to the phrases that he’s publicly agreed to? Or will he let his group overrule him? So I suppose we’ll see if when he reveals up on September 10, which choice he has made.

Former Trump protection secretary says Arlington cemetery ought to by no means be used for ‘partisan political functions’ after report of Trump altercation

Mark Esper, a former protection secretary below Donald Trump, instructed CNN that he hoped the reported altercation between the previous president’s workers and an official at Arlington nationwide cemetery was investigated, whereas saying that the grounds ought to by no means be used for “partisan political functions”:

Trump SecDef Esper tells me he’s “anxious” to see what comes of Arlington investigation- “Backside line: The precept is that no individual or occasion, both aspect, ought to ever use Arlington Nationwide Cemetery – or any of our cemeteries or battlefields – for partisan political functions.” pic.twitter.com/zazLTDGPUQ

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 28, 2024

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Trump SecDef Esper tells me he’s “anxious” to see what comes of Arlington investigation- “Backside line: The precept is that no individual or occasion, both aspect, ought to ever use Arlington Nationwide Cemetery – or any of our cemeteries or battlefields – for partisan political functions.” pic.twitter.com/zazLTDGPUQ

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 28, 2024

Esper served below Trump from 2019 till shortly after the 2020 election, when Trump fired him. The previous protection chief has since decried Trump as a “menace to democracy”.

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In newly resurfaced remarks from 2021, JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, attacked lecturers and Democratic leaders who don’t have kids.

Within the clip, Vance, who was talking at a discussion board held by the Middle for Christian Advantage will be heard saying:

So lots of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so private about this, however they’re folks with out children making an attempt to brainwash the minds of our youngsters, that actually disorients me and disturbs me.

Randi Weingarten, who’s the top of probably the most highly effective lecturers’ union within the nation, she doesn’t have a single little one. If she desires to brainwash and destroy the minds of youngsters, she ought to have a few of her personal and depart ours the hell alone.

In a put up on X, Weingarten responded to Vance’s resurfaced feedback, calling them “gross” and “unhappy and insulting to tens of millions of recent households, and college lecturers together with Catholic nuns, none of whom must be focused for his or her household selections”.

This comes simply weeks after Vance got here below fireplace after a clip of him in 2021 calling main Democrats “a bunch of childless cat girls” resurfaced.

Walz additionally referenced his previous as a soccer coach to argue that, regardless of the previous president’s protestations, Trump plans to implement Challenge 2025 if elected.

“One of many targets of their Challenge 2025 is to screw the center class, making it tougher for staff to collectively cut price, permitting employers to drastically reduce additional time or eradicate it, slash taxes for the extremely rich by imposing a nationwide gross sales tax on the remainder of us,” Walz stated.

“Look, I’ve stated this, I’m an old-time soccer coach. When you draw up a playbook, you intend on utilizing it. Challenge 2025 is a plan to reshape what America seems to be like – shifting away from the center class and placing it proper again on the oligarchs and the rich on the high.”

Walz says Harris’s debate with Trump is ‘going to be good’

Tim Walz inspired unionized firefighters to look at Kamala Harris’s 10 September debate with Donald Trump, saying: “It’s going to be good.”

“Kamala Harris, she’s prepared to carry him accountable on the controversy stage,” Walz stated of Trump. He continued:

Inform me you’re not wanting ahead to that. Look, I do know you’re busy. You’re going to be watching Monday Evening Soccer or one thing, however it’s going to be good. It’s going to be good as a result of once more, as I stated, that is going to impression you. The issues which are stated on that debate stage are going to impression your retirement. They’re going to impression your children, schooling, they’re going to impression infrastructure. These are issues that matter to us.

Walz addresses firefighter union conference in Boston

Tim Walz is now onstage on the Worldwide Affiliation of Hearth Fighters conference in Boston, the place he’s speaking concerning the Harris marketing campaign’s insurance policies in the direction of labor unions.

We’ll let you recognize what the Minnesota governor has to say.

Kamala Harris will rally supporters tomorrow in Savannah, Georgia, on the conclusion of her bus tour via the state.

Based mostly on this checklist, it doesn’t seem that Donald Trump has ever held a rally within the coastal metropolis, however he nonetheless is aware of the place his supporters (or not less than three of them) will be discovered – at Waffle Home:

THANK YOU—WAFFLE HOUSE IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA… pic.twitter.com/ZgOytm0EGd

— Trump on 𝕏 (@trump_repost) August 28, 2024

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Trump marketing campaign workers had ‘verbal and bodily altercation’ with Arlington cemetery officers over taking footage – report

Two staffers for Donald Trump’s marketing campaign had a “verbal and bodily altercation” with an official at Arlington nationwide cemetery over filming and taking photographs in a piece reserved for latest US casualties of struggle, NPR stories.

The Trump marketing campaign has denied the episode, which it blamed on an “unnamed particular person” who was “clearly affected by a psychological well being episode”. The nationwide cemetery instructed NPR that it had filed a report over the incident.

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A supply with data of the incident stated the cemetery official tried to forestall Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a piece the place latest US casualties are buried. The supply stated Arlington officers had made clear that solely cemetery workers members could be approved to take images or movie within the space, often called Part 60.

When the cemetery official tried to forestall Trump marketing campaign workers from getting into Part 60, marketing campaign workers verbally abused and pushed the official apart, in keeping with the supply.

Trump participated in an occasion to mark the third anniversary of a lethal assault on US troops in Afghanistan as US forces withdrew from the nation; 13 US service members had been killed within the assault. The Trump marketing campaign has blamed President Biden and Vice President Harris, now the Democratic presidential nominee, for the chaotic withdrawal.

In an announcement to NPR, Steven Cheung, the Trump marketing campaign’s spokesman, strongly rejected the notion of a bodily altercation, including: ‘We’re ready to launch footage if such defamatory claims are made.

‘The actual fact is {that a} non-public photographer was permitted on the premises and for no matter cause an unnamed particular person, clearly affected by a psychological well being episode, determined to bodily block members of President Trump’s group throughout a really solemn ceremony,’ Cheung stated within the assertion.

The Trump marketing campaign declined to make that footage instantly accessible.

In an announcement to NPR, Arlington Nationwide Cemetery stated it ‘can affirm there was an incident, and a report was filed.’

Why are Kamala Harris and Tim Walz heading to Georgia’s rural south?

Democrats have suffered in rural areas in latest election cycles nationwide, as a substitute drawing assist from cities and their suburbs.

However Politico stories that the Democrats’ swing via the Georgia hinterlands is a part of a method – which they plan to duplicate in different swing states – of making an attempt to restrict their losses in rural areas, whereas additionally turning out assist in city areas.

“It’s a must to actually stave down margins and go locations even whenever you don’t suppose you may win it outright,” Harris-Walz principal deputy marketing campaign supervisor Quentin Fulks instructed Politico. “You recognize you’re going to lose that county, however simply exhibiting up there can typically be the distinction between 5 to 10 proportion factors, or typically simply placing an workplace there.”

Harris and Walz set for first joint interview with CNN on Thursday

Kamala Harris has not carried out a single sit-down interview since embarking on her presidential marketing campaign, however that may change on Thursday at 9pm ET when CNN airs a joint interview with Tim Walz.

The community says the candidates will speak about their swing via Georgia, and we are able to count on the vice-president to even be requested for her ideas on Joe Biden ending his bid for a second time period and clearing the best way for her to turn into the Democratic nominee.

It’s only one interview, although, and is unlikely to quiet the assaults from Donald Trump, his working mate JD Vance and different Republicans who declare that Harris and Walz can’t deal with scrutiny from the press. We’ll see if the pair schedule extra encounters with the media within the weeks to come back.

Harris and Walz kick off bus tour of Georgia to construct momentum in swing state

Good morning, US politics weblog readers. There are seven swing states whose voters are anticipated to determine the November presidential election: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina, Arizona and Georgia. It’s that final state which can be getting particular consideration from Kamala Harris and Tim Walz over the following two days, as they appear to protect inroads made by Joe Biden 4 years in the past, when he turned the primary Democrat to win its electoral votes since 1992. The pair is kicking off a bus tour of the state’s southern counties on Wednesday that may culminate on Thursday with Harris holding a rally in Savannah.

Their marketing campaign says that Harris and Walz are aiming to construct off their momentum from final week’s conference, once they accepted the occasion’s nomination amid enthusiasm from Democrats. They’re additionally aiming to win a state which may be the hardest to carry in November – polls usually present Donald Trump with the benefit amongst Georgia voters, although the hole has grown narrower since Harris entered the race. We’ll see what the vice-president and Minnesota governor encounter as they traverse the state in the present day.

Right here’s what else is occurring:

• Trump earlier this week visited Arlington nationwide cemetery, and his marketing campaign workers had an altercation with an official who tried to forestall them from taking footage in space the place solely workers are allowed to take action, NPR stories. The Trump marketing campaign has rejected their description of occasions.

• The Cook dinner Political Report, the carefully watched forecaster, now views North Carolina as a “toss up” within the presidential election. The state hasn’t voted for a Democratic candidate since 2008.

• The Senate GOP marketing campaign arm is shopping for advertisements for incumbent Ted Cruz, in an indication that polls of his re-election race in opposition to Democrat Colin Allred within the Republican bastion could also be too shut for consolation.