While campaigning in Pennsylvania, Ohio Senator JD Vance angrily rebutted the media’s tendentious coverage of what happened to Donald Trump’s campaign at Arlington National Cemetery. Vance alleged that the media was twisting the facts and the actual incident included only of some tussle and illegal shooting the grave of a soldier.
“The fight at Arlington Cemetery is the media making up a story as far as I have been because I do in fact feel there is none,” Vance said.
JD Vance defended the Trump campaign saying that the cemetery was a secured area where no press was allowed except for people who had proper permissions from the dominion. “There is hard proof to trace back that the campaign was given permission to come with a photographer. They were asked to carry a photographer.”
According to him, whereas officials brought in troops in the aftermath of Kabul evacuation to Abbey Gate where thirteen service members were killed in Afghanistan, families of service members, who loved Trump, did not want the soldiers to touch the jobs the president used to. “They wanted Donald Trump there, and thank God we have a president who stands with our veterans instead of one who runs away from them,” he said of the families as well.
He was still mute on the situation as JD Vance was able to cover for himself, about the particulars of the events especially the ‘no filming policy’ in regard to Section 60 of the cemetery.
VoteVets, a group concerned in progressive veterans’ activities, also reacted strongly and branded Vance a ‘spineless gutless fraud who is a malefactor’ as well as making charges of disrespecting the grave’s honor. Political activities at Arlington are and always have been prohibited,” VoteVets stated. “Trump’s campaign attempted to intimidate and assault employees of the cemetery who were lawfully doing their job and protecting every one of the graves. To fight for them, JD Vance sells them out to please Trump. How pathetic it is.”
The Trump campaign on the other hand refuted such claim of physical fights and up to now has not produced any video which would support their side of the argument. A campaign aide, Steven Cheung, insisted that a private photographer was permitted onto the premises and inappropriately assigned responsibility to someone for preventing Trump’s crew.
Vance went on to assail Vice President Kamala Harris, labeling her as “disgrace” after the Afghanistan pullout by the US military where she was instrumental. Even more bitter remarks were issued towards Harris over the prospect of Trump paying her a visit – “She can go to hell.”
