Ohio GOP SenatorJD Vance was in a fiery mood during a campaign stop on Wednesday. The Vice President wannabe fumed that actual Vice President Kamala Harris “can go to hell” and called her “disgraceful.”
The source of Vance’s nasty remarks stems from a controversy surrounding DonaldTrump’s campaign being involved in a fight with an Arlington National Cemetary official over campaign staff staging a photo-op, which is potentially a violation of federal law, Mediaite reports.
So I ask myself, “What in the gefoodlehoppers does Trump or his staff care about laws, federal or otherwise?”
Considering all the indictments Trump has racked up, I doubt he loses sleep over the crimes he’s committed. That’s a clear indication that Vance is the worst sort of Trump sycophant. He turned all snorty and farty after he was asked about the controversy and dissed it as a creation of the media, and then said, “The thing our veterans care a lot 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. I don’t know. I don’t, look, sometimes mistakes happen. That’s just the nature of government, the nature of military service. But to have those 13 Americans lose their lives and not fire a single person is disgraceful. Kamala Harris is disgraceful. We’re going 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. She can. She can go to hell!” Vance concluded.
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Vance is referring to the 13 American service members who died in a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 26, 2021. Vance and his prospective boss are trying to blame Harris and President Joe Biden for the deadly attack that also killed 100 Afghans.
The brewing brouhaha has led the cemetery to post a statement about the alleged altercation between the Trump campaign and the cemetery official.
“Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign,” according to the statement. “Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants.”
How typical of the Trump campaign to be this crass. If anyone is disgraceful, it’s Vance, ranting about this as opposed to all those who lost their lives in this tragedy. For the Trump campaign, this was nothing more than a photo-op, anything to get their Messiah his old job back.
And supporters of Kamala Harris are fighting back on X.
“BREAKING: In a stunning admission, JD Vance admits there was an altercation at Arlington National Cemetery due to Donald Trump’s politicization of a memorial service for fallen soldiers. Retweet so all Americans see this and know how vile Donald Trump is,” notes @harris_wins.
BREAKING: In a stunning admission, JD Vance admits there was an altercation at Arlington National Cemetery due to Donald Trump’s politicization of a memorial service for fallen soldiers. Retweet so all Americans see this and know how vile Donald Trump is.pic.twitter.com/jsxv9rCBiH
— Kamala’s Wins (@harris_wins) August 28, 2024
And we already know Trump likes “people that weren’t captured,” in a vile attack on the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) who became a prisoner of war for several years in North Vietnam. Attacks like this are the reason why Trump doesn’t belong at Arlington.
Vance is equally deplorable for supporting a man who can attack veterans, a man with a wealthy father who can help him finagle his way out of serving his country. Because bone spurs.
Michael Eric Dyson, an author and frequent Trump critic, appeared on CNN shortly after Vance made his remarks. Dyson was asked to weigh in. “Yeah, I mean, the level of disrespect must not be overlooked. The normalization of this kind of coarse rhetoric, is itself problematic. The opprobrium of a vice presidential candidate speaking about a presidential candidate in such terms is problematic,” Dyson said, adding:
“Number two, Mr. Trump is seeking to deflect all of the reporting about him, calling them ‘losers’ and ‘suckers.’ So at any point, fisticuffs at Arlington, which is unseemly, to say the least, distracts from the fact that distracts us from the fact that this man has not shown profound respect, for the military.”
“As for, you know, combat Vice President Harris, and, you know, thrusting and caring about this issue, it’s legitimate to ask questions, to engage in conversation, to talk about what happened, who was there, and the like. But the lack of decorum itself is a larger story than any kind of conflict that they might endure.”
I’m not a fan of the U.S. military but Arlington National Cemetery is not the place to portray yourself as a presidential candidate. That’s how tactless Trump is. He doesn’t care. He thinks service members are “losers” after all.
He is almost certainly the vilest president we’ve ever been stuck with.
I’ve included the clip of Vance acting like an idiot below.
Featured image via screengrab
