Trump campaign denies alleged altercation at Arlington National Cemetery

2AGY9DH U.S President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Turning Point USA 5th annual Student Action Summit at the Palm Beach County Convention Center December 21, 2019 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Trump rallied the youth conservative group with wild claims on wind turbines and attacks on his opponents.

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Trump’s campaign denied allegations on Thursday of a reported altercation with an official at the Arlington National Cemetery.

The report concerned an event on Monday in which President Donald Trump honored 13 military service members killed during the 2021 Kabul airport suicide bombing.

“There was no physical altercation as described and we are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said Thursday, according to a Newsmax report.

The response followed a report by NPR and other media outlets that claimed that a cemetery worker was verbally abused and pushed when he attempted to stop Trump campaign staff members from taking videos and photographs of the event.

The Trump campaign says it had permission for a photographer during the visit.

Veteran Lucas O’Hare, a member of the Presidential Honor Guard, defended Trump’s visit in a post on Instagram on Thursday.

“I have witnessed over 75 wreath laying ceremonies performed by politicians and conducted 524 funerals in this cemetery during the time I served in the Presidential Honor Guard for three years. What I got to witness yesterday was the most respectful and solemn ceremony I have seen,” O’Hara wrote

“There were no speeches, no angles, no weird photo ops just our elected officials and the 45th President respectfully and solemnly honoring the fallen and their families,” he added.

O’Hare also noted that Trump was truly showing love to families during the Monday gathering.

“I watched President Trump spend more time at the graves with the families than I have ever seen a political representative do before. No rushing, no handlers trying to move it on, just him truly showing gratitude and love to these families for their loss,” he continued.

“No matter what the party, this is what I look for in my elected officials. Americans ready to serve and support Americans,” O’Hare concluded. “God bless this country and those who fight for it and for those no longer with us… you will never be forgotten.”

As RSBN reported on Monday, Trump honored the 13 fallen American military service members at the Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, marking the third anniversary of their deaths during a bombing at the Kabul airport.

Trump remembered the service members during a ceremony that included time at the tombstones of each of the 13 individuals who died during the American military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago.

Trump campaign spokesman Chris LaCivita also posted a video on X revealing a phone call Trump made to the family of SSG Ryan Knauss who could not make it to Arlington.

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