WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris claimed previous President Donald Trump “disrespected sacred floor” in his the latest visual appeal at Arlington National Cemetery, exactly where the Republican nominee took and distributed pictures In spite of a federal prohibition on campaign activity on the grounds.

Harris, in a press release posted Saturday over the social media marketing System X, cited studies that Trump's campaign aides created an altercation which has a cemetery staffer and proceeded to choose images and film the previous president, which include for the graves of Afghanistan war veterans, soon after getting warned about guidelines at the site.

“Allow me to be very clear: the previous president disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of the political stunt,” Harris mentioned, contacting Arlington a “solemn area in which we occur jointly to honor American heroes ... not a place for politics.”

The initial incident stemmed from Trump’s and Republicans’ continued criticism of President Joe Biden and now Harris for that chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. In the invitation of some family members of provider members killed over the withdrawal, Trump laid wreaths final Monday in honor of Sgt. Nicole Gee, Team Sgt. Darin Hoover and Workers Sgt. Ryan Knauss. They were being amid thirteen U.S. services customers and greater than one hundred Afghans who died within an Aug. 26, 2021, bombing at Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport.

Trump’s marketing campaign was warned about not taking pictures before an altercation with the cemetery, according to defense officials. Officials have reported because that an Arlington personnel whom two Trump marketing campaign staff associates allegedly “verbally abused and pushed” aside has declined to push prices. The Trump marketing campaign has because lashed out at Pentagon officials, that has a top campaign adviser, Chris LaCivita, referring to army spokespersons website as “hacks.” Trump campaign officials say it had permission to carry anyone to take video.

Given that Biden ended his reelection bid, Trump has become zeroing in on Harris and her roles in international coverage selections. He has specially highlighted the vp’s statements that she was the final man or woman during the home right before Biden made the choice on Afghanistan.

Biden’s administration was next a withdrawal determination and timeline the Trump administration had negotiated Together with the Taliban in 2020. A 2022 overview by a federal government-appointed Particular investigator concluded choices made by both Trump and Biden were being the key things leading to the rapid collapse of Afghanistan’s military services as well as Taliban takeover.

Harris on Saturday alluded to Trump's heritage of selecting fights with veterans and repeated allegations that he has “termed our fallen assistance associates ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’ and disparaged Medal of Honor recipients.”

“This is a person who's unable to understand anything at all other than company to himself,” Harris explained. “I will generally honor the support and sacrifice of all of The us’s fallen heroes. ... And I won't ever politicize them.”