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   Trump has history sparking outrage for incidents around veterans because he   
   hates them.   He only loves Russian and North Korean soldiers and salutes   
   them.   
      
   Since his first run for the White House, Trump has picked fights with the   
   military and veterans that no other major U.S. politician would, dating   
   back to 2015 when he dismissed the late Sen. John McCain’s military record   
   because McCain had been a prisoner of war. Trump’s allies argue he supports   
   service members while reserving the right to lash out against his critics.   
      
   “I think that if you want to know how Donald Trump values and honors those   
   who’ve served, and particularly those who’ve given the ultimate sacrifice,   
   I think you can just talk to these families and they have a much better   
   read on this issue than anybody who has a grudge against Donald Trump,”   
   said Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, on Monday.   
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   Monday’s incident at Arlington National Cemetery took place as the former   
   president visited the graves of some of the 13 U.S. service members killed   
   in the Kabul bombing during the 2021 U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan. The   
   Army says a cemetery official was “pushed aside” by Trump campaign aides   
   while trying to prevent them from filming and photographing in Section 60,   
   the burial site for military personnel killed while fighting in Afghanistan   
   and Iraq.   
      
      
   The Trump campaign later posted footage of the visit on its social media   
   accounts. The family of a decorated Green Beret whose grave appeared in the   
   photos issued a statement supporting those who lost loved ones in Kabul but   
   asking for understanding for the concerns from relatives of service members   
   whose graves were near them.   
      
   Trump’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this story,   
   but has contested the allegation that a campaign staffer pushed a cemetery   
   official.   
      
      
   Jon Stoltz, a U.S. Army veteran and co-founder of veterans advocacy group   
   VoteVets, which supports Vice President Kamala Harris’ candidacy, said   
   Trump tried to use a sacred place “for a political ceremony.”   
      
   “They don’t have a right to do that with other veterans who are there,”   
   Stoltz said.   
      
   The Arlington incident came less than two weeks after Trump came under   
   criticism for the way he discussed the Congressional Medal of Honor, the   
   military’s highest decoration for service members.   
      
   Praising billionaire Republican donor Miriam Adelson, whom he awarded the   
   Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, Trump   
   said she fared “much better” than receiving the Congressional Medal of   
   Honor because recipients of that award are often badly injured or dead.   
      
   Despite the Veterans of Foreign Wars admonishing Trump by calling his   
   comments “flippant” and “asinine,” he repeated a version of the remark at a   
   campaign event in Michigan on Thursday, saying he’d “rather get” the Medal   
   of Freedom because the Medal of Honor recipients, “oftentimes they’ve   
   suffered greatly, right? They’ve suffered greatly or they’re not around.”   
      
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