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elleng

(136,005 posts)
Tue Jul 3, 2018, 10:46 AM Jul 2018

Trump Orders Flags to Half-Staff for Capital Gazette Victims, in Apparent Reversal.

'President Trump on Tuesday ordered the American flag to be lowered to half-staff to honor the victims of last week’s mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Md.

The city’s mayor, Gavin Buckley, said his initial request, submitted last week through Maryland’s congressional delegation, was denied. But he received a call from the White House press secretary around 7:15 a.m. on Tuesday informing him that the president had decided to lower the flags for the five people killed on Thursday.

“Last night, as soon as the president heard about the request from the mayor, he ordered the flags to be lowered,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said. “I spoke with the mayor last night and again this morning to let him know the president’s decision.”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/us/capital-gazette-flags-half-staff.html?

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Trump Orders Flags to Half-Staff for Capital Gazette Victims, in Apparent Reversal. (Original Post) elleng Jul 2018 OP
He got his message to the base by delaying it unblock Jul 2018 #1
Yeah, it's one of his signature moves. Girard442 Jul 2018 #2

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1. He got his message to the base by delaying it
Tue Jul 3, 2018, 10:49 AM
Jul 2018

He can do it now to stop the negative press. The delay accomplished all he needed.

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