Speaking during an interview with CNN’s left-wing Dana Bash, the same host who attempted to do a softball interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, former soldier and former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, now part of the Trump Transition team, slammed Bash for promoting a political attack against former President Donald Trump over his visit to Arlington National Cemetary with Gold Star families.
As background, on the third anniversary of the Kabual Airport suicide bombing attack that left 13 American servicemembers dead, former President Trump visited the cemetery to honor the fallen soldiers. One of the families apparently requested a thumbs-up photo with him, which he did, which resulted in leftist backlash against him.
Included amongst those who attacked Trump for the visit was Vice President Kamala Harris, who has not appeared to visit the graves of the fallen soldiers despite being involved in the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that left them dead. She has not, in fact, spoken to their families, quite unlike former President Trump, and the families attacked her for her criticism.
Dana Bash, in any case, further attacked former President Donald Trump, even during her interview with Trump ally and Trump Campaign transition team member Tulsi Gabbart, repeatedly questioning whether he was allowed to film inside the cemetery. Her continual questions came despite Biden having done much the same thing, the families apparently asking Trump to film, and the Trump campaign having received prior authorization to film.
Gabbard pushed back, using her own experience in the armed forces to sound off on the criticisms of the former president. Beginning, she said that she has seen many of the media-pushed concerns about Trump’s visit to the cemetery with the families, “I have seen a lot of the headlines and the stories and the concerns that people are raising about this.”
Continuing, she noted that the real tragedy and important issue is that the death of the 13 servicemembers wasn’t better covered on the anniversary despite their sacrifice. She said, “But, to me, as a soldier and as someone who has been deployed to different war zones in the world — and I have friends who are buried there at Section 60 — what is more outrageous to me is that there wasn’t universal coverage of the momentous day of the third anniversary of the loss of these 13 Gold Star families and the outrage that they feel that they — that their loved ones are not getting the kind of coverage and memory that their great sacrifice deserves.” She added, “That is what everyone should be outraged about.”
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Gabbard isn’t the only Trump ally to sound off on the matter. Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, skewering Kamala in the wake of her criticism of Trump’s visit, 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.”
Continuing, he claimed that the Biden-Harris Administration’s handling of the aftermath has been “disgraceful,” saying, “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.”
He then said the same thing about Kamala specifically and that she can “go to h*ll,” saying, “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!”
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