'Unfit!' Buttigieg hammers Trump for fundraising 'over the bodies of America's war dead'

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Source: Raw Story

March 15, 2026 10:12AM ET


Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg hammered President Donald Trump on Sunday over his political action committee’s recent effort to use images from the dignified transfer of American service members killed in action to rake in cash, telling CNN that the president was clearly no longer fit for office.

“Just this week, we saw campaign fundraising materials being put out, emails where the president’s committee, the president’s political operation, was raising money off of images of him at a dignified transfer,” Buttigieg told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“Any politician who does that has no business leading American troops into war. If the president is willing to raise campaign funds over the bodies of America’s war dead, he is unfit to be the commander in chief.”

Held earlier this month, the dignified transfer ceremony marked the return of the bodies of six U.S. service members killed in Trump’s Operation Epic Fury. Trump controversially attended the event wearing a baseball cap, one that appears identical to one the president’s political operation sells on its website for $55.

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1. MS NOW-Trump fundraising pitch features U.S. soldiers killed in Iran war

The email solicitation to benefit Trump’s PAC also offers donors “private national security briefings.”

Trump fundraising pitch features U.S. soldiers killed in Iran war; The email solicitation to benefit Trump’s PAC also offers donors “private national security briefings.”
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😡no respect for our dead, but by god if he can make a buck on it let the good times roll💩🖕🐷

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President Donald Trump’s political action committee this week sent a fundraising email promising donors “private national security briefings” by the president himself and featuring a photo from the dignified transfer for U.S. service members killed in Kuwait.

“For the first time ever, I’m opening up spots on the National Security Briefing Membership,” reads the email, from Trump’s Never Surrender Inc. PAC.

“As a National Security Briefing Member, you’ll receive my private national security briefings, unfiltered updates on the threats facing America. The straight truth on border invasions, foreign adversaries, deep state sabotage, and every danger the fake news hides,” it continues. “You’ll get the inside scoop DIRECT from me, President Trump, the leader who’s rebuilt the greatest military in history, and put America First like no one else.”

The email includes a black-and-white version of an official photo taken by the White House showing the president in a white “USA” baseball cap saluting a transfer case during the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on March 7.

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....But the use of a photo from the dignified transfer of U.S. troops who died in the line of duty to raise funds is notable.

“To have that imagery used for partisan advertising and fundraising, that’s a bridge, you know, a new bridge that we’re crossing,” Weiner said. “But it’s more of a question of norms.”