“He [Trump] 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.” – Sen. Tom Cotton, pretending that Harris should have come running to join Trump for his campaign stunt.
And as NBC host Kristen Welker pointed out to Cotton, Biden and Harris both did meet with those families during the solemn “dignified transfer” of the soldiers’ bodies.
Also, contrary to Cotton’s claim, Trump did indeed use his Arlington photos and videos in campaign ads, most notably on TikTok.
As for Harris’s “mansion,” what Cotton is referring to is the official residence for all vice presidents, located on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory.