Donald Trump told a crowd at The Economic Club of New York Thursday that his campaign team was taking photos at Arlington Cemetery to mark the "celebrating" of the families of those who died in an attack on American soldiers in Afghanistan three years ago.
Saying that he was at Arlington "four days ago" — though in fact it was a week earlier on Aug. 26 — Trump hit back at criticism that he was illegally using the burial ground for political campaigning.
"They were celebrating three years, honoring their children, and yeah, that's right. They call them their children," Trump said of the parents of the slain soldiers.
"But many of those people that were so badly hurt, they don't talk about them," Trump claimed. "No legs. No arms. Obliteration of their face, their entire body. And nobody mentions that we left Americans behind. Large numbers."
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley confessed in March that he wasn't sure how many Americans were left in Afghanistan. After the withdrawal there were an additional 800 Americans pulled out by Aug. 2022, Politico reported.
Trump's campaign said that reports that Trump staff were involved with an altercation with an Arlington official as they took photos in the burial ground was "made up," though the U.S. Army refuted that in a statement that was criticial of the campaign's activities.
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