Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance said Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, “can go to hell” is she chose to criticize former President Donald Trump for a reported incident while attending a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery honoring 13 fallen servicemembers killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal, the New York Post reports.
Vance’s comment came after reports that the Trump campaign was involved in an alleged altercation with an Arlington official who attempted to stop them from filming and photographic in Section 60, the burial site for the soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Michael Tyler, a spokesperson for Harris, called the incident “pretty sad” and “not surprising” during an interview with CNN.
Vance addressed the incident during a campaign event in Erie, Pennsylvania, and was reported to be visibly frustrated before saying that Harris “can go to hell” if her campaign decided to use the incident as an attack on Trump, which followed blaming the vice president for her role in the Afghanistan withdrawal.
“The other thing that our veterans care more about is that three years ago, 13 brave, innocent Americans died. And they died because Kamala Harris refused to do her job and there hasn’t been a single investigation or a single firing,” he said.
“Kamala Harris is disgraceful. We want to talk about a story out of those 13 brave, innocent Americans who lost their lives? It’s that Kamala Harris is so asleep at the wheel that she won’t even do an investigation into what happened. And she wants to yell at Donald Trump because he showed up?”
Vance also claimed that the incident involving the Trump campaign was exaggerated by the media.
“The altercation at Arlington Cemetery is the media creating a story where I really don’t think that there is one,” he said, noting the Gold Star families wanted the former president to attend the ceremony and didn’t find the altercation to be an “insult” to the fallen servicemembers.
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