'Made up story!' Trump denies Arlington Cemetery fight in caps-heavy Truth Social rant

Former President Donald Trump angrily denied all reporting that his campaign staff got into a physical altercation with an Army caretaker at Arlington National Cemetery, and tried to deflect everything onto Vice President Kamala Harris, in a Truth Social rant posted on Tuesday morning.

"The was no conflict or 'fighting' at Arlington National Cemetery last week," wrote Trump. "It was a made up story by Comrade Kamala and her misinformation squad. She made it all up to make up for the fact that she and Sleepy Joe have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS for the INCOMPETENT AFGHANISTAN Withdrawal - THE MOST EMBARRASSING DAY IN U.S. HISTORY!!! They should have been at Arlington, not on a beach or studying for a Debate."

"Thanks you to my friends, the GREAT GOLDS STAR FAMILIES, for revealing the TRUTH OF A BEAUTIFUL DAY OF HONOR," he added. "Could not have been a nicer moment-And there were no fights or problems, only in the heads of those that are destroying our Country! MAGA2024"

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Trump, according to sources, tried to stage a fake event in Arlington Cemetery's "Section 60" — a set of graves mainly used for fallen troops from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — so that he could pretend that Harris blew off the fake event and was disrespecting the soldiers killed in the Afghanistan withdrawal.

His plan went off the rails when local staff told his campaign it was against federal law to stage a campaign photo there, leading to an altercation where a middle-aged woman trying to enforce policy was manhandled by unnamed Trump aides.

The incident has drawn sharp outrage from former defense and security officials and veterans groups, with one former adviser to Trump's former chief of staff, retired Marine General John Kelly, blasting the staged photograph at Arlington Cemetery as "narcissism to the point of sociopathy."