Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) ripped Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday’s Meet the Press after being questioned about former President Donald Trump’s controversial visit to Arlington National Cemetery last week.

Trump has taken flak since last Monday when he visited the cemetery during a wreath-laying ceremony for 13 U.S. service members who were killed during the Pentagon’s 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. Images of the visit on social media preceded accusations that Trump’s staff was aggressive toward a cemetery employee.

An Army spokesperson said on Thursday that federal law prohibits political campaign activities at all Army national cemeteries and defended the employee. During a Sunday interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, Cotton said Trump did nothing wrong.

Welker noted Cotton’s military background before she asked, “Is it ever appropriate to make campaign content at military gravesites? Cotton responded that Trump was invited by the families of those killed at the Abbey Gate in Kabul and said it was Harris and President Joe Biden who were disrespectful for not showing up. Cotton said:

He didn’t take campaign photos there. These families, Gold Star families, whose children died because of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ 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 Darin 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 barbecues. This is their one chance to have a memory of their children to commemorate their service and honor their sacrifice. They wanted President Trump there. They wanted to take those photos. You know who the families also invited? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Where were they? Joe Biden was sitting at a beach. Kamala Harris was sitting at her mansion in Washington, D.C. She was four miles away, ten minutes. She could’ve gone to the cemetery and – and honored the sacrifice of those young men and women. But she hasn’t. She never has spoken to them or taken a meeting with them.

Welker pushed back during the following exchange:

WELKER: Well, they – they did meet with them during the dignified –.

COTTON: It’s because –.

WELKER: – transfer –.

COTTON: – of her –.

WELKER: They were with them at the dignified transfer.

COTTON: – her and – her and Joe Biden’s incompetence that those 13 Americans were killed in Afghanistan.

WELKER: Well, not everyone, obviously, was pleased with this visit. And again, just the law says memorial services and ceremonies at Army national military cemeteries will not include partisan political activities.

COTTON: And it didn’t, Kristen. He wasn’t – President Trump wasn’t –.

[CROSSTALK].

The senator said Trump was not wearing his signature MAGA hat and so the visit to Arlington was not connected in any way to the former president’s campaign. Cotton concluded Biden and Harris sent the 13 soldiers to die.

Harris said Saturday that Trump’s visit was a “political stunt” and that “the former president disrespected sacred ground.”

Watch above via NBC News.

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