‘Go to hell’: JD Vance turns Trump’s Arlington National Cemetery scandal into attack on Harris

Senator JD Vance said Vice President Kamala Harris can “go to Hell” at a recent campaign event.

Vance’s comments came duringa campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania on Wednesday afternoon while speaking about President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in 2021.

“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, she can go to Hell,” Vance said at the campaign rally.

Vance’s comments came as he responded to a reporter’s question about an incident at Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week. The Trump campaign visited the site for the third anniversary of Abbey Gate, where 13 American troops and 170 Afghan civilians died in a terrorist attack in August 2021 as the US pulled out of Afghanistan.

A recent NPR report claimed a Trump campaign staffer verbally abused and pushed a cemetery official who tried to stop them from filming and photographing in Section 60, where troops who have recently died are buried.

“There is verifiable evidence that the campaign was allowed to have a photographer there,” Vance said. “There’s verifiable they were invited to have a photographer there.”

“There’s verifiable evidence that the families of these poor people, who had their loved ones die three years ago at Abbey Road, they had – excuse me, Abbey Gate – those 13 Americans, a lot of them were there with the president, they invited him to be there and to support them,” Vance continued.

Arlington National Cemetery confirmed in a previous statement toThe Independent that “there was an incident, and a report was filed.”

A US Army spokesperson also confirmed on Thursday morning that a cemetery employee “who attempted