Donald Trump said it may have been Gold Star families, not his campaign, who distributed images and videos of him at Arlington National Cemetery.
at Arlington National Cemetery during a visit to the burial ground earlier this week, blaming the controversy on “very bad people.” He also suggested in an interview that the Gold Star families he accompanied may have been the ones who published videos from his visit, rather than members of his campaign.
“So I go there, they ask me to have a picture, and they say I was campaigning,” Trump complained. “The one thing I get is plenty of publicity… I don’t need the publicity.” Trump claimed that he didn’t know “anything about” the use of the images on his campaign social media. “We have a lot of people, we have TikTok people,” he said, “you know, we’re leading the internet.”
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