A Lot of Outrage': CNN Reports On Trump Shocking Critics with Fundraising Photo Featuring Dignified Transfer

"It's written as if it's from Trump, it's addressed to his supporters, and it tells people that they could sign up to receive 'Be a member of the national security briefing.' And there, right there is that photo—in between two links that says 'claim your spot.' And that link then takes you to a donation page for Trump's political action committee."

"There has been a lot of outrage to this online, both before we posted our story a little bit, and a lot after we posted it, from Democratic members of Congress, Democratic Senators, former national security officials, former members of the Obama administration, who have said that this is not an appropriate use of this photo."

"This is an official government photo from the transfer of those remains of those service members, the six of them who were killed in Kuwait last Saturday. And it's really it has a lot of people pretty worked up online. I don't know in my career if I've ever seen a photo like this used in a fundraising email."

Trump's political action committee, Never Surrender Incorporated, sent a fundraising email featuring a photograph from a dignified transfer ceremony honoring six fallen U.S. service members who died in military operations against Iran. The photo showed Trump saluting while wearing his campaign baseball hat during the solemn flag-draped coffin transfer. The email was formatted as a message from Trump to supporters, offering membership in national security briefings with a link directing recipients to a donation page. The use of this official government photograph for fundraising purposes generated significant outrage from Democratic members of Congress, Democratic Senators, and former national security officials, who deemed it inappropriate.

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