Sen. Tom Cotton appeared on NBC News on Sunday, and the topic inevitably landed on Donald Trump's recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery. As RedState reported, the press has been having a field day attacking the former president for a supposed breach in decorum regarding a wreath-laying ceremony for the 13 murdered American service members killed at the Abbey Gate during the Afghanistan withdrawal.
It didn't take long after the event for the truth to come out, which was that the Gold Star families involved invited Trump to come and asked to pose for pictures with him. Still, the press pushed forward with the story in an egregious fashion, including Maggie Haberman of The New York Times calling up the mother of one of the names seen on a gravestone to harass her for a response.
NBC News owes the Gold Star families an apology and a correction.
Then, on Saturday morning, Kamala Harris jumped headfirst into the fray, releasing a scathing statement claiming she respected America's war dead but that Trump doesn't.
COTTON: He didn't take campaign photos there. These families, Gold Star families, whose children died due to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's incompetence, invited him to the cemetery, and they asked him to take those photos because as they told me yesterday when I spoke to Kelly Barnett and Darren Hoover, the parents of Taylor Hoover, who has Arkansas ties, they don't get to go to the beach on Labor Day. They don't get to have BBQs. This is their one chance to have a memory of their children to commemorate their service and to honor their sacrifice. They wanted President Trump there, they wanted to take those photos.
Cotton specifically said Harris has never spoken to or met with the Abbey Gate Gold Star families, and the anchor jumps in to insist "they" (as in both Biden and Harris) were at the dignified transfer.
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