Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance isn’t sorry he stated Vice President Kamala Harris “can go to hell.”
Vance’s comment got here after two staffers for former President Donald Trump’s presidential marketing campaign reportedly got into an “altercation” on Monday with an official at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery whereas attempting to get footage and video footage of Trump in a restricted space.
Trump had been attending an occasion on the cemetery honoring the 13 US army members who died in a bombing throughout the U.S.′ 2021 pullout from Afghanistan.
Though Harris had not but spoken in regards to the incident, Vance nonetheless went after her throughout an Erie, Pennsylvania, marketing campaign occasion on Wednesday.
“If she desires to yell at Donald Trump as a result of he confirmed up, she will be able to go to hell,” he stated.
In an interview with the Washington Post on Thursday, Vance stated his remark was merely “a colloquial phrase.” He stated he hadn’t seemed into the cemetery incident in-depth. Nonetheless, he additionally added that he doesn’t consider the Trump marketing campaign ought to apologize to the cemetery official.
“The media and the Democrats have made a scandal out of one thing the place there actually is none,” he stated. “I don’t know the small print of the altercation between the photographer and any individual in Arlington, so I definitely wish to perceive higher earlier than I remark instantly on that. However from what I’ve seen, the president was invited.”
The U.S. Military critiqued the Trump marketing campaign over the cemetery incident, calling it out in a statement to media shops on Thursday.
“This incident was unlucky, and it’s also unlucky that the ANC worker and her professionalism has been unfairly attacked. ANC is a nationwide shrine to the honored useless of the Armed Forces, and its devoted employees will proceed to make sure public ceremonies are carried out with the dignity and respect the nation’s fallen deserve,” the assertion stated.
Harris marketing campaign communications director Michael Tyler advised CNN on Wednesday that the battle between the Trump campaigners and the cemetery official was “fairly unhappy.”
He added: “That is what we’ve come to anticipate from Donald Trump and his workforce. Donald Trump is an individual who desires to make every thing all about Donald Trump. He’s additionally any individual who has a historical past of demeaning and degrading army service members, those that have given the last word sacrifice.”
