‘She Can Go To Hell!’ JD Vance Drops Wild Attack On Kamala Harris
By Alex Griffing,
2024-08-28
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance said during a campaign stop on Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris “can go to hell” while angrily condemning her as “disgraceful.”
Vance was asked about the brewing controversy surrounding the Trump campaign being involved in an altercation at Arlington National Cemetery over using campaign staff during a photo-op, which would potentially be a violation of federal law.
The cemetery put out a statement about the alleged altercation between Trump’s team 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.”
Vance was campaigning in Erie, Pennsylvania, and took questions after his remarks. He was asked about the controversy and dismissed it as a media creation. Vance went on to say, “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!” concluded the Ohio senator.
Michael Eric Dyson, an author and Trump critic, was on CNN shortly after Vance made his remarks and 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.
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