CNN’s Pentagon correspondent said that President Trump signing red “Make America Great Again” hats for troops in Iraq may have violated Defense Department rules.
“What commander allowed that to really happen?” Barbara Starr asked Wednesday night.
“This is very much against military policy and regulation,” Starr said. “Troops are not supposed to be involved in political activities; the U.S. military is not a political force.”
“The sayings ‘Trump 2020’ and ‘Make America Great Again’ are political slogans of a Trump campaign. They are not governmental sayings, to say the least,” Starr said.
CNN & others within the Fake News Universe were going wild about my signing MAGA hats for our military in Iraq and Germany. If these brave young people ask me to sign their hat, I will sign. Can you imagine my saying NO? We brought or gave NO hats as the Fake News first reported!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2018
Defense Department policy says that “active duty personnel may not engage in partisan political activities and all military personnel should avoid the inference that their political activities imply or appear to imply DoD sponsorship, approval, or endorsement of a political candidate, campaign, or cause.”
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded to the report, writing on twitter: “CNN will attack anyone who supports President Trump, including the brave men and women of our military who fight everyday to protect our freedom”
What? pic.twitter.com/WU9Jbu7Geu
— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) December 27, 2018
CNN will attack anyone who supports President Trump, including the brave men and women of our military who fight everyday to protect our freedom https://t.co/x6VjuUJFdF
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 27, 2018
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i dont go to ywn to read cnn garbage–if you cant exist without this, then just shut down.
1. No rules were broken. The hats belonged to the soldiers, and the President was merely autographing them.
2. Obama used to autograph all kinds of stuff when he visited the troops. Strange that there was no outcry then…
As dumb, incompetent and unknowledgeable as he is, can’t blame him for not knowing, but someone should and should have stopped it.
They’ll pull out any obscure policy and throw any man, woman or child under the bus to attack the president. CNN has reduced the value of its own opinion to zero in the eyes of at least half the American public.
that’s really funny, regardless of whether it’s appropriate or not.
Wait, as the commander in chief of the USA military, he makes the rules so he has every right to change whatever rule he wants. Who is CNN to question his authority?
The article seems to deliberately obfuscate the alleged problem. Who allegedly did what wrong? Apparently the main point seems to be the alleged “Troops are not supposed to be involved in political activities”. Well, let us see the actual policy (NUMBER 1344.10):
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4. POLICY
It is DoD policy to encourage members of the Armed Forces (hereafter referred to as members”) (including members on active duty, members of the Reserve Components not on active duty, members of the National Guard even when in a non-Federal status, and retired members) to carry out the obligations of citizenship. In keeping with the traditional concept that members on active duty should not engage in partisan political activity … the following policy shall apply:
4.1.1. A member of the Armed Forces on active duty may:
4.1.1.8. Display a political bumper sticker on the member’s private vehicle.
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How is having a privately owned non-military object signed, no matter what is states, worse than the explicitly permitted "Display a political bumper sticker on the member’s private vehicle"?
CNN eating the tuches of America’s enemies is a disgrace. Boycott their advertisers.
If signing hats is all CNN can gripe about, then the country must be in great shape…..
Are the serious??????????
The FBI is allowed to be outright Dem but the president is not allowed to autograph his solders hats????
Typical Left fake news.
Boycott Fake news. (AKA CNN)
YWN is so biased against Pres. Trump, it may as well declare itself a subsidiary of CNN.