JD Vance Acknowledges 'Altercation' At Arlington Cemetery, Brushes It Off As ‘Little Disagreement’

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Wednesday dismissed reports of an altercation this week between two members of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and an official at Arlington National Cemetery.

Vance minimized the incident during a campaign event on Wednesday in Erie, Pennsylvania, blaming the media for blowing it out of proportion. He said that “apparently somebody at Arlington Cemetery, some staff member, had a little disagreement with somebody” and “the media has turned this into a national news story,” per The Associated Press.

“The altercation at Arlington cemetery is the media creating a story where I don’t really think there is one,” the Ohio senator said.

Earlier this week, Trump held a wreath-laying ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery, the resting place of more than 400,000 service members, veterans and their families, to honor 13 service members who were killed in an attack at an airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, three years ago.

NPR first reported that Trump staffers tried to take photos in Section 60, where recent U.S. veterans are buried — even though they were reportedly told that only cemetery officials could do so. Under federal law, “political campaign or election-related activities, including photographs, within Army National Military Cemeteries” are prohibited, according to a statement from the cemetery.

“Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants. We can confirm there was an incident, and a report was filed,” the statement read.

After an official tried to stop them from photographing the gravesite, the two Trump staffers reportedly “verbally abused and pushed the official aside,” a source told NPR.

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