JD Vance: Kamala Harris can “go to hell” over Afghanistan withdrawal

Washington – On Wednesday, Senator JD Vance of Ohio said Vice President Kamala Harris could “go to hell” over the Biden administration’s handling of the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The comment came from a “incident” during former President Donald Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Monday to commemorate the third anniversary since a suicide attack In Kabul, 13 soldiers were killed during the chaotic withdrawal from the country.

Trump visited a section of the cemetery known as Section 60, where veterans of the post-9/11 conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are buried. During his visit, a conversation broke out between Trump campaign staff and a cemetery official, according to multiple sources. The dispute appears to be over whether the Trump campaign photographer had permission to be there.

“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 a single firing,” Trump's running mate Vance said in response to a CBS News reporter's question about the clashes at Arlington National Cemetery during his campaign in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Vance called Harris a “disgrace” and said the narrative should be: “Kamala Harris is so asleep at the wheel that she doesn't even want to conduct an investigation into what happened, and she wants to yell at Donald Trump for showing up.”

“She can go to hell,” he said.

Vance later said in Green Bay, Wisconsin, that his comments were justified.

“Sometimes I get frustrated and angry,” he said, accusing the Harris campaign team of trying to turn the incident at Arlington National Cemetery into “a huge political issue.”

In a statement Monday on the bombing, Harris said she would “fulfill our sacred obligation to care for our soldiers and their families, and I will always honor their service and sacrifice.”

“As I have said, President Biden has made the bold and right decision to end America’s longest war,” she said.

The US withdrawal came almost 20 years after the start of the war in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

The Biden administration and Congress have conducted several investigations into the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Report from the White House And another from the Foreign Ministry both blamed the Trump administration in part for the circumstances that contributed to their problems.

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