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Military expert horrified by Trump's July 4th treatment of Gold Star families
The Ceremony Was Not the StoryPower, Not Faux PasThe source material gives a simple enough fact pattern: Donald Trump used a patriotic holiday stage to perform contempt, then followed it with the kind of backstage gesture that turns grief into theater. At Arlington, Gold Star families were left in the rain while he was sheltered. On the Fourth of July, he dangled medals like party favors. This is not confusion. It is a choice about who gets dignity and who gets used.The Office Belongs to Him, Not the FamiliesThe people with actual institutional power in this story are obvious: the president…
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