Trump working mate and Iraq struggle veteran Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) blasted Kamala Harris for her marketing campaign’s criticism of President Trump’s go to to Arlington Nationwide Cemetery on Monday to mark the third anniversary of the Abbey Gate terror assault in Afghanistan members of the family of the fallen and survivors.
Trump participated in three wreath-laying ceremonies on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for 3 servicemembers killed within the assault after which joined the households and survivors at Part 60 to honor the fallen at their gravesites.
There is no such thing as a higher sacrifice than giving one’s life in protection of our nation. It was my solemn privilege to face alongside the household of Employees Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery at present as we paid tribute to his legacy and the 12 others who misplaced their lives… pic.twitter.com/tR6dhpMYsB
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Talking at a marketing campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania on Wednesday Vance responded to Harris, “However to have these 13 Individuals lose their lives and never fireplace a single particular person is disgraceful. Kamala Harris is disgraceful. If we wish to discuss a narrative out of these 13 courageous harmless Individuals who misplaced their lives, it’s that Kamala Harris is so asleep on the wheel that she received’t even do an investigation into what occurred however needs to yell at Donald Trump for displaying up? She will, she will go to hell!”
.@JDVance: “To have these 13 Individuals lose their lives and never fireplace a single particular person is disgraceful. Kamala Harris is disgraceful… Kamala Harris is so asleep on the wheel that she received’t even do an investigation into what occurred however needs to yell at Donald Trump for displaying… pic.twitter.com/U5wVefvB05
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TGP reported earlier Wednesday how NPR reported a cemetery staffer acquired right into a bodily altercation with Trump marketing campaign staffers, attempting to dam them from taking images and video of Trump with the households and survivors in Part 60, and {that a} report had been filed with Arlington Cemetery. The Trump marketing campaign stated it had permission from Arlington Cemetery and the households to have a photographer current. The media and the Harris marketing campaign have made the incident a nationwide story to attempt to deflect from the optics of Trump displaying up at Arlington on Monday whereas Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had been on trip and simply issued written statements on the anniversary of the assault that killed 13 servicemembers and over one hundred-fifty Afghans throughout Biden’s chaotic retreat from Afghanistan in August 2021.
Harris marketing campaign spokesman Michael Tyler appeared on CNN Wednesday morning the place he trashed Trump for visiting Arlington (CNBC excerpt):
Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign stated a reported bodily confrontation between former President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign aides and an official at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery was “fairly unhappy,” however “it’s not shocking coming from the Trump group.”
“Pay attention, that is what we’ve come to count on from Donald Trump and his group,” Harris marketing campaign spokesman Michael Tyler stated in a CNN interview Wednesday. Arlington cemetery confirmed late Tuesday that an “incident” had occurred, and reiterated that federal legislation bars candidates and campaigns from conducting political marketing campaign actions in nationwide navy cemeteries.
…“Donald Trump is an individual who needs to make all the pieces all about Donald Trump. He’s additionally any individual who has a historical past of demeaning and degrading navy service members, those that have given the last word sacrifice,” Tyler stated Wednesday on CNN.
“I believe it’s a part of what the American individuals have come to reject relating to Donald Trump. They’re sick of the poisonous model of politics,” Tyler stated.
“They’re sick of the MAGA extremism, they usually’re sick of an individual who, it doesn’t matter what the problem is, is frankly simply attempting to serve himself relatively than doing what one must be doing as a pacesetter, which is combating for the American individuals.”
…Trump marketing campaign senior advisor Chris LaCivita stated Wednesday, “A anonymous bureaucrat at Arlington whose job it’s to protect the dignity of the cemetery is doing the exact opposite in attempting to make what was a really solemn and respectful occasion into one thing it was not.”
Talking to NBC Information, LaCivita additionally stated Harris’ marketing campaign and different Trump critics, by speaking in regards to the incident, are “attempting to muddle the truth that there was just one commander in chief in Arlington on August twenty sixth.”
LaCivita is a Marine veteran of the Gulf Warfare who earned a Purple Coronary heart.
Longer clip the place Vance says the ‘altercation’ at Arlington is a media creation, noting Trump had permission from Arlington Cemetery and the households to have a photographer current, and {that a} cemetery workers member had a disagreement that the media blew up right into a nationwide story. Vance stated veterans care extra that Harris’ working mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) lied about his navy service file.
Reporter: One, might you inform us extra in regards to the altercation that occurred on the Arlington Cemetery, um, and two, uh, what does debate prep appear to be for your self and for Trump presently?
Vance: Nicely I, I believe to begin with the altercation at Arlington Cemetery is the media making a story the place I actually don’t suppose that
there’s one. There’s verifiable proof, there’s there’s verifiable proof that the marketing campaign was allowed to have a photographer there. There’s verifiable, they had been had been invited to have a photographer there. There’s verifiable proof that the households of those poor
individuals who had their family members die three years in the past at Abbey Street (sic) that they had, excuse me, Abbey Gate, these 13 Individuals, quite a lot of
them had been there with the President, they invited him to be there and to help them. That’s not an insult to the reminiscences of their family members. They wished Donald Trump there and thank God that now we have a President who stands with our veterans as a substitute of 1 who runs away from them. (Applause.)Vance: Now we (pause for applause), now, yeah, I imply it’s, it’s wonderful to me that you’ve apparently any individual at Arlington Cemetery, some workers member had somewhat disagreement with any individual they usually have turned, the media has turned this right into a nationwide information story. You recognize what I believe our veterans care much more about that Kamala Harris’s VP nominee lied about his navy service. I believe that our veterans care much more about that. And the opposite factor that our veterans care, the opposite factor our veterans care much more about is that three years in the past 13 courageous harmless Individuals died they usually died as a result of Kamala Harris refused to do her job and there hasn’t been a
single investigation or a single firing. I, I don’t, I don’t, look, generally errors occur. That’s simply the character of presidency, the character of navy service. However to have these 13 Individuals lose their lives and never fireplace a single particular person is disgraceful. Kamala Harris is disgraceful. If we’re going to speak a few story out of these 13 courageous harmless Individuals who misplaced their lives, it’s that
Kamala Harris is so asleep on the wheel that she received’t even do an investigation into what occurred and he or she needs to yell at Donald Trump as a result of he confirmed up? She will she will go to hell!”
Transcribed by TGP.
Tuesday evening the Trump marketing campaign posted a duplicate of the permission slip from Arlington and a press release from the households:
Trump posted a TikTok video on Wednesday in regards to the go to to Arlington that garnered over six million views in a matter of hours and triggered his opponents:
6.2 million views of the Trump Marketing campaign’s video on TikTok at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery pic.twitter.com/NfU6dd0Vh5
— Outspoken™️ (@Out5p0ken) August 28, 2024
