• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I understand why the employee is not pressing charges. It’s a matter of their and their family’s safety. Ok.

    But what I don’t understand is that if using the cemetery for political purposes is against the law, and there are obviously many photos released and used in Trump’s campaign material, why not use that evidence to charge Trump¥, the campaign, and the photographers?

    ¥ Sadly even if they tried to arrest Trump, I’m sure it wouldn’t stick anyway because apparently he gets away with everything.

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      3 months ago

      Why not arrest ANY of the 50 or so people. Just start arresting the poorest person in the photo (money means no consequences) and then every day the next and so on.

      I think it would super interesting.

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      3 months ago

      Because Trump is rich and influential and it’s long past the time we should stop pretending the law actually applies to everyone.

      Laws and rules are for regular people, if you are rich or famous or influential enough, laws do not apply to you

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      3 months ago

      Law prohibits political campaign or election related activities at the cemetery, not photography in general. If their photographs are not used by their campaign officials and trump can reasonably articulate a reason to have been there aside from campaigning, which would be pretty easy, it does not seem there would be any grounds against him. It seems the news reporting on the incident is the primary coverage of the visit.