Thread: Trump orders flags to be lowered for Gazette victims after request reportedly was den

Trump orders flags to be lowered for Gazette victims after request reportedly was denied

By Maegan Vazquez and Abby Phillip, CNN
Updated 1:13 PM ET, Tue July 3, 2018

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump ordered American flags to be lowered to half-staff through Tuesday to honor of the victims of last week's deadly shooting at an Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper.
The city's mayor said the request was initially denied.

Five people were killed and two were injured on Thursday in a "targeted attack" on the Capital Gazette newspaper by a gunman with a grudge against the paper, authorities have said. Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley subsequently asked the White House to order the lowering of American flags.

Asked about Buckley's claim that his request was denied, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told CNN on Tuesday morning that "as soon as the President directly heard the request made by the mayor, he asked that we reach out and verify that the mayor had made the request. When we did, the President asked that the flags be lowered immediately."

Sanders said she spoke to Buckley Monday night to inform him of the President's decision, adding that she was "not sure about the process" which led to Buckley's claim that his request was initially denied.

"But there's certain protocol that was followed. It was -- but when the President heard about the mayor's specific request to him, he fulfilled the mayor's request in order for the flags to be lowered," she added.

Buckley said he was "obviously" disappointed about the White House's initial decision not to lower the flags.
"Is there a cutoff for tragedy?" Buckley told the Gazette.

A message left with Buckley's office Tuesday morning after the lowering of the flags was not immediately returned.

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story mischaracterized Buckley's response to Trump's initial decision to not lower flags following the shooting.

CNN's Jason Hoffman, Hollie Silverman, Janet DiGiacomo and Darran Simon contributed to this report.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/03/polit...aff/index.html

I think we should also lower the flag every time an American is killed by an illegal alien.

Originally Posted by Judy

I think we should also lower the flag every time an American is killed by an illegal alien.

That would be EVERY DAY!

Lower the FLAG and rise it HIGH after every damn one of them is deported!

Originally Posted by Beezer

That would be EVERY DAY!

Lower the FLAG and rise it HIGH after every damn one of them is deported!

Exactly. Every day the flag would be lowered. This flag should not fly while illegal aliens are in our country killing Americans. There should be a report, EVERY DAY, of how many Americans, who they are and how they died. Illegal aliens have turned our country into a filling field, and a US flag should not fly high until this ends.