Trump campaign, Arlington National Cemetery staff clash at event

The event took place in what’s known as Section 60 where troops killed fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq are buried NPR earlier reported that two members of Mr Trump’s campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the worker aside when she tried to prevent filming or photographing. Defence officials told CBS, the BBC’s US news partner, that some Trump campaign staff were unprofessional and both verbally and physically aggressive towards the cemetery official. Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesperson, disputed that there was a physical altercation and said the campaign was prepared to release video to confirm its account. In his statement, Mr Cheung said: “The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump’s team during a very solemn ceremony.” The tone of that statement, and further attacks by Mr Trump’s running mate JD Vance criticising coverage of the episode, have added further fuel to the row. While the families of two soldiers killed in Afghanistan accompanied Mr Trump at the ceremony and said they approved of the photos, the rules do not allow families to give permission for filming in the cemetery. Mr Trump has repeatedly campaigned on his claim that the Biden-Harris administration lost control in Afghanistan, blaming them for the deaths of troops. – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgwnn11x18o