JD Vance says Kamala Harris "can go to hell" over Afghanistan withdrawal

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

Benjamin Hughes

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

The remark stemmed from an “incident” during former President Donald Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Monday to mark three years since a suicide bombing in Kabul killed 13 service members during the chaotic withdrawal from the country. 

Trump visited part of the cemetery known as Section 60, where veterans of the post-9/11 conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are laid to rest. While there, an interaction occurred between Trump campaign staff and a cemetery official, according to multiple sources. The dispute appears to be over whether the Trump campaign’s photographer had permission to be there. 

report from the White House and another from the State Department both partly faulted the Trump administration for the circumstances that contributed to its challenges. 

Allison Novelo,

Eleanor Watson,

Jacob Rosen and

Olivia Rinaldi

contributed to this report.

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Caitlin Yilek

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.

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