Gold Star families of service members who were killed during the terrorist attack on Kabul airport during the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, some of whom attended a visit to Arlington National Cemetery with former President Donald Trump that resulted in controversy, criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for attacking Trump.
Harris took to social media on Saturday to condemn Trump and his campaign for disrespecting a “sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt.”
The former president responded to Harris with a series of short videos from the families, including those that did and did not formally invite him to attend the memorial at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.
In a video, Gold Star father Mark Schmitz, father of Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, said they didn’t invite Trump to the cemetery to “help his campaign.”
“We wanted a leader,” Schmitz said.
“How do you sleep at night knowing it was you, this administration, you and Biden, you, being the last one in …