Vance tells Harris: 'Go to hell' after alleged Trump incident in Arlington

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance said the Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris“can go to hell” is what she chose to criticize the former president Donald Trump for a reported incident while attending a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery honoring 13 soldiers killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal, the New York Post reports.

Vance's comments followed reports that the Trump campaign was involved in an alleged altercation with an Arlington officer who tried to prevent them from filming and taking photographs at Section 60, the burial site of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Michael Tylera spokesman for Harris, called the incident in an interview “quite sad” and “not surprising” CNN.

Vance addressed the incident during a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, and reportedly became visibly frustrated before saying Harris could “go to hell” if her campaign decided to use the incident as an attack on Trump. He then blamed the vice president for her role in the Afghanistan withdrawal.

“Our veterans are also even more concerned because three years ago, 13 brave, innocent Americans died. And they died because Kamala Harris refused to do her job and there was not a single investigation or discharge,” he said.

“Kamala Harris is a disgrace. We want to talk about the story of those 13 brave, innocent Americans who lost their lives? It's about Kamala Harris being so asleep that she doesn't even want to conduct an investigation into what happened. And she wants to yell at Donald Trump for showing up?”

Vance also claimed that the incident, which was related to the Trump campaign, had been exaggerated by the media.

“The confrontation at Arlington Cemetery is where the media is manufacturing a story that I really don't believe exists,” he said, noting that Gold Star families wanted the former president to attend the ceremony and did not see the confrontation as an “insult” to the fallen soldiers.