Gold Star Father Appalled by Trump's Arlington Trip: 'There to Exploit'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : A number of those present joined Trump in smiling and giving a thumbs up.
49% : Trump was seeking to further that narrative on Tuesday, when he arrived with a campaign entourage that included a photographer.
48% : Trump was standing next to retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, at the time his homeland security secretary and subsequently the White House Chief of Staff.
46% : A photo shows that at one point Trump posed with several family members and two wounded warriors by the headstone for Staff Sergeant Darien Hoover at the edge of Section 6.
40% : Yes, Trump joined several family members of the fallen, along with two survivors who had been critically wounded.
33% : "Defense Officials: Trump Campaign WAS Warned Before Arlington IncidentKhan had a ready answer when asked what's in it for Trump.
30% : But Kahn remembers reports of a question Trump asked on Memorial Day of 2017 in Section 60, the burial place for those who died in Afghanistan and Iraq.
28% : From the father of an uncommonly brave Army captain who died protecting his troops from an Iraqi car bomb comes a question regarding the recent confrontation between staffers on Donald Trump's campaign and an official in the same section of Arlington National Cemetery where his son is buried: "Why did he go there?"Khizr Khan is the father of 27-year-old Army Captain Humayun Khan, who was awarded a Bronze star following his death in 2004 and now occupies grave 7986 in Section 60.Khan's only conclusion is that Trump visited the cemetery on Monday primarily for personal political gain -- something prohibited by federal law.
28% : Trump reportedly asked.
25% : Khan figures Trump and his entourage could not have arrived at Section 60 to pay actual respect respect to the 13 soldiers killed by a suicide bomber outsaide Bagrqam Airport during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago on Monday.
24% : "Trump did not come to Arlington on the first anniversary of the Bagram attack, nor on the second.
20% : Biden was only completing a withdrawal agreement that Trump entered into before being voted out of office.
9% : Kelly has since confirmed that account, along with remarks Trump reportedly made in France when explaining why he did not want to visit the resting place of 1,800 American Marines who died during World War I. He reportedly called them "losers" and "suckers.

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