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Trump campaign team is accused of verbally insulting and shoving an Arlington Cemetery official during the wreath-laying ceremony

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Two officials with the former president Donald Trump's Members of the 2024 presidential campaign were accused of verbally abusing and shoving an Arlington National Cemetery official during an altercation on Monday.

According to NPR, which cited a source “familiar with the incident,” the two unnamed campaign staffers allegedly got into a verbal and physical altercation with the cemetery official after he tried to stop them from “filming and taking photographs in an area known as Section 60, where soldiers recently killed in the United States are buried.”

When the cemetery official tried to prevent the Trump staff from entering Section 60, they reportedly “verbally abused and pushed” the officer aside.

The incident occurred as Trump attended a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate the anniversary of the 2021 Kabul airport terrorist attack that killed 182 people – including 13 U.S. military personnel – during the controversial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan under the Biden administration.

In a statement to NPR, Trump's campaign spokesman said Steven Cheung rejected the claim that an altercation had taken place and blamed the incident on a person who “obviously suffers from a mental disorder”.

“We are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made,” Cheung said in the statement. “The fact is that a private photographer was allowed onto the premises and for some reason an unnamed individual, who was obviously suffering from a mental disorder, decided to physically block members of President Trump's team during a very solemn ceremony.”

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