President had wanted tanks at event but local officials objected – so they will be stationed nearby, he says
Donald Trump isn’t taking “no tanks” for an answer on the Fourth of July.
He said on Monday that a display of US military tanks would be part of a special event he’s headlining on the Fourth of July in Washington – and an Associated Press photographer saw at least two M1A1 Abrams tanks and two Bradley Fighting Vehicles on a flatcar in a railyard at the south-eastern edge of Washington.
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