Prince William said Tuesday that he is cautiously optimistic following Kate Middleton's announcement that she's cancer-free after nine months of treatment, Fox News reported. He cautioned that there "is still a long way to go" for his wife, the Princess of Wales.
In March, Kate announced in a video that she had been diagnosed with cancer and would be treated with chemotherapy. She didn't disclose what type of cancer she has, but her diagnosis followed an abdominal surgery in January.
Kate once again released a video, this time to update the public. "Although I have finished chemotherapy, my path to healing and full recovery is long, and I must continue to take each day as it comes," the princess said.
The prince similarly expressed his hopefulness but with the same caveat. "It's good news, but there is still a long way to go," he told reporters.
The princess shared the good news about her illness and what it has been like for her family. "As the summer comes to an end, I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have finally completed my chemotherapy treatment," Kate said in the stylized video clip posted to X, formerly Twitter.
"The last nine months have been incredibly tough for us as a family. Life as you know it can change in an instant and we have had to find a way to navigate the stormy waters and road unknown," Kate went on.
"The cancer journey is complex, scary, and unpredictable for everyone, especially those closest to you," the princess added. She spoke about having the support of her husband and the public as well as the perspective her illness has imparted.
"To all those who are continuing their own cancer journey – I remain with you, side by side, hand in hand. Out of darkness, can come light, so let that light shine bright," Kate later concluded.
A message from Catherine, The Princess of Wales
As the summer comes to an end, I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have finally completed my chemotherapy treatment.
The last nine months have been incredibly tough for us as a family. Life as you know it can change in an… pic.twitter.com/9S1W8sDHUL
— The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) September 9, 2024
Following the release of Kate's message, it became clear that she and William were moving away from how the royal family typically deals with such subjects. Rather than the stilted, factual delivery of her cancer announcement, Kate chose a softer approach this time around.
Kate's words overlaid videos of her relaxing outdoors with her husband and children. It was an intimate look at her family as seen through the eyes of the video's producer William Warr, creative director at Details Film, the Associated Press reported.
This was a welcomed change to many who followed the royals. Public relations and crisis consultant Mark Borkowski noted that the clip was "a tectonic shift in how the royal family controls its image" in the past.
"Kate’s journey is profound and deeply personal, but they’ve learned that emotion can be controlled – and weaponized – in small, potent doses. By doing this through a polished film, they maintain dignity and control while still appearing relatable," Borkowski pointed out.
Cancer does not discriminate between commoners and royals. Kate and William have shown great resilience in the face of such tragedy, and their openness will surely help others battling the disease.
Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign apparently copied and pasted President Joe Biden's "issues" page and passed it off as her own, Breitbart reported. This plagiarism came after critics hammered her for weeks about having no publicly available policy agenda.
The Harris campaign finally posted its agenda Sunday, more than two months after she replaced Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate. However, X user Corinne Green shared a screenshot showing Harris' campaign didn't even bother to change the coding.
"[T]hey copied and pasted the policy page code from biden's website and couldn't be assed to change it. 'join our campaign to re-elect joe biden today!'" Green posted to X, formerly Twitter, Monday.
they copied and pasted the policy page code from biden's website and couldn't be assed to change it. "join our campaign to re-elect joe biden today!" pic.twitter.com/cDlL8xn01Q
— Corinne Green (@gaynarcan) September 9, 2024
The New Republic, a left-leaning publication, was the first to break the story in an article titled "Embarrassing Copy-Paste Plagues Harris’s Launch of Policy Platform." It featured the X user's post and explained the digital breadcrumbs that gave Harris away.
According to the author's piece Hafiz Rashid, the Harris campaign left language from Biden's website in its metadata. "This language was visible when links to the campaign site were shared and in the website’s description on Google searches," .
The author noted that "this creates the impression that at least some of the Harris campaign’s policy language was copied and pasted from Biden’s documents." It called this fact an "embarrassing miscue," especially because Democrats need to distance themselves from Biden's record more than ever.
"It doesn’t help that the section on her website about her Israel-Palestine policy seems very similar to what Biden’s campaign was saying," Rashid added. Meanwhile, a separate article in the same publication publicly worried about her lack of policy stances in favor of "vibes" over substance.
"She had nearly two months to show voters who she is and what she stands for. Instead, she has played it safe, hoping to maintain the positive vibes and momentum of the summer by deliberately not staking out positions on controversial policies," Alex Shephard's article "Kamala Harris Can’t Keep Running Like This" noted on Tuesday.
The Harris campaign decided to plagiarize Biden's policies exactly at a time when a departure is what's needed the most. "This is dangerous territory for Harris, given that the Times poll found that more than 60 percent of voters wanted the next president to represent a 'major change' from Biden—and only a quarter felt that Harris represented that change," pointed out.
"That makes sense, given that she’s his vice president! But it means she should be working overtime to distinguish herself from her boss," Shepard added.
"Instead, she’s doing precisely the opposite. Unwilling to break publicly with Biden—to criticize his handling of say, inflation, immigration, or Israel—she has simply positioned herself as a younger version of him."
"Whether that’s intentional on her part, or the result of her campaign being run largely by the same people who ran Biden’s disastrous reelection bid, is unclear," the author noted. Harris is running out of time before Election Day to distance herself from the administration.
Harris' victory hinges on the hope that people will forget what the past three and a half years have been like with her as second in command. Copying and pasting from the administration Americans are eager to forget is not the way forward if she wants to win.
Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill appealed for police to "make a change" following a traffic stop that ended in his detention on Monday, Fox News reported. The NFL wide receiver was responding to an earlier release of bodycam footage from the Miami-Dade Police Department.
The stunning recording showed the exchange between Hill and the police officers who initiated the traffic stop. Hill was somewhat uncooperative and combative, and police officers responded in kind.
This led to calls for the officers to be reprimanded. Hill responded to the release of the footage with the admonishment on X, formerly Twitter. "Let's make a change," he wrote.
Let’s make a change
— Ty Hill (@cheetah) September 10, 2024
Hill was later asked to elaborate on his tweet during an interview on CNN. The 30-year-old athlete didn't accept any responsibility but instead blamed the police.
"I’m not a big believer in dividing people. I don’t believe in all that. I believe in bringing people together because that’s my purpose in life. I do football camps all across the world trying to bring different people together … because we in this together, baby. We’re on this Earth together. We gotta live together," Hill began.
"So, when I say, ‘Let’s make a change,’ let’s do it together. So, Miami PD, really all officers across the world, one officer doesn’t make the whole group look bad," Hill claimed.
"Everybody has bad apples. Every team has bad apples. It’s my job to use my platform and my resources so that way I’m able to align with these different stations," the eight-time Pro Bowler went on.
"We done tried it all. We done protest. We even took a knee. We done did walks. So what’s next? Me and my wife are brainstorming on how we can be a part of this change. It’s important to us. We want to be able to change lives all across the world – not just Miami."
According to the New York Post, a written statement from the South Florida Police Benevolent Associate said that Hill was detained for being "uncooperative" during the stop. "Before the Dolphins game yesterday, an incident occurred where Tyreek Hill was placed in handcuffs before being released," South Florida PBA president Steadman Stahl wrote.
"Upon being stopped, Mr. Hill was not immediately cooperative with the officers on the scene who, pursuant to policy and for their immediate safety, placed Mr. Hill in handcuffs. Mr. Hill, still uncooperative, refused to sit on the ground and was therefore redirected to the ground," the statement continued.
"Once the situation was sorted out within a few minutes, Mr. Hill was issued two traffic citations and was free to leave. While we are confident in the actions that led to the stop of Mr. Hill, as with any investigation, we will wait for all of the facts to come out, along with any explanation Mr. Hill may have for his actions that initiated this unfortunate incident," Stahl wrote.
One of the officers was placed on leave while the Miami-Dade Police Department's Internal Affairs investigates. Hill made light of the situation during a touchdown celebration during Monday night's game as a teammate pretended to handcuff him in the endzone.
There is plenty of blame to go around for what happened during that traffic stop. However, Hill does no favors to his community by stoking tensions with police officers while taking no responsibility for his own part in the incident.
One of former President Donald Trump's top allies, former chief of staff Ric Grenell, had a warning for voters about the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to buy up U.S. farmland.
“We’re doing this event in Pennsylvania, because what we’ve seen from the Communist Chinese government over the last 10 years is a very aggressive strategy to infiltrate into the United States” in a variety of ways, Grenell said in a Breitbart News Saturday interview.
Grenell, formerly the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, said that it's not only federally, but at the state and local level that China is seeking "leverage."
“Into our local politics, into our state politics. They really took advantage of us during COVID. We know the supply chain problems, but what’s beginning to happen is they are buying up land. They are leveraging our farmers in terms of prices, and it’s impacting the way that the United States is able to feed our own people,” he said.
“It’s beginning to be this aggressive strategy, and there’s no question that the Chinese will begin to leverage their power. We know they do that. I’ve spent eight years at the U.N. inside the Security Council, watching how the Chinese slowly and methodically begin to leverage their power. They did this specific example at the U.N. by slowly taking over jobs at the U.N.,” he said.
China has been seeking power for years through the U.N., Grenell said.
“They had their people, Communist Chinese, beginning to take over different offices at the U.N. They did it really under the radar, and then once they have control, then they start flexing their power. This is exactly what they’re doing with land in America."
Grenell has been active in foreign relations for the Trump campaign, with the Washington Post accusing him of running a "shadow" foreign policy for Trump.
According to the New York Times, Grenell wants to be secretary of state in a future Trump administration, but for now, he's attempting to expose China's activities.
“They’re doing this to farmers in America. They’re doing it with price controls. And what we need to be able to be clear-eyed about is this strategy,” he said, calling it "methodical."
For the event, he invited farmers from Pennsylvania to speak about what they see happening with their land "in the last five or ten years."
“You know, there’s no one better to speak about this than the actual people impacted, who are farmers growing our food, helping raise cattle and pigs so that we can have enough food to eat. And so this is a — this is a very personal thing to me,” Grenell said, noting that he has farmers in his own family.
“I understand the hard work that farmers put into trying to make a living, and we’ve got to be very clear-eyed about what’s happening in the Midwest with our farmers. And that’s what this event is all about,” he added.
Back in 2023, a Republican bill was introduced to ban China from buying farmland in the U.S., but it has not been passed.
In the wake of her sudden coronation by the Democratic Party, Kamala Harris has been viewed as something of a political juggernaut, aided by friendly journalists and uncritical commentators.
However, now that Labor Day is in the rearview mirror, and Americans are turning their attention more seriously toward the election, Harris is seeking to paint herself as an underdog in the fight against former President Donald Trump, as NBC News reports.
Despite her prior stated conviction of an all but certain Joe Biden victory in November, Harris campaign chief Jen O'Malley Dillon is taking a new tack with regard to the new Democratic Party standard-bearer by painting Harris as the underdog.
To some, who have seen the fawning coverage and successful influx of campaign donations Harris has continued to receive, the characterization seems rather inept.
Among those who share that view is Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, who forcefully took issue what that assertion.
“Kamala Harris is not the underdog, nor is she the candidate of the future,” Leavitt declared.
She went on, “Kamala Harris is the vice president of the United States right now,” alluding to the built-in advantage someone in the Democrat's position naturally brings to bear.
For his part, Trump has put a largely positive spin on his standing in the race to date, telling a recent crowd in Pennsylvania that things are looking good for a win.
“We don't need votes. We've got more votes than anybody's ever had,” he stated.
Trump went on, “We should win in a blowout. We should blow them out. You know, we win the state, we win the whole thing,” the former president claimed.
With that said, Leavitt noted that nothing will be left to chance in the run-up to November, saying, “We are confident President Trump has the momentum in this race, but no one is sitting back at Trump headquarters and chillin' right now. We are working around the clock to win this election.”
Some view Harris' eagerness to portray herself as something of an underdog as a way to lower – and then perhaps exceed -- expectations for her performance in Tuesday's debate against Trump.
The vice president's history of verbal gaffes, word salad responses, and a general unwillingness to answer substantive questions on policy has set the bar fairly low in terms of what voters expect to see from her on the debate stage.
Even so, a strong showing for Harris is crucial if she is to reclaim the momentum she saw in the early days of her campaign, particularly considering that noted political prognosticator Nate Silver recently suggested that the vice president's chances of winning the all-important Electoral College vote appear to be dwindling by the day, indicating that perhaps there really is something to the “underdog” talk after all.
Former President Donald Trump will not face trial for special counsel Jack Smith's election interference case until after Election Day, Fox News reported. Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan made this ruling during a status hearing Thursday on Smith's superseding indictment.
After Trump was granted presidential immunity for conduct during the riot, Smith was forced to rework his original indictment. He nixed allegations and modified others to keep his case alive.
Smith narrowed allegations recast discussions between Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence as being between candidates rather than government officials to circumvent the immunity issue. However, it seems even his most recent iteration is facing snags.
In Thursday's hearing, Trump's attorneys pleaded not guilty to the modified charges in the new indictment. Chutkan set new deadlines for paperwork rebuttals from federal prosecutors for Nov. 7, two days after Election Day.
The case Smith built is crumbling under legal scrutiny. In July, the Supreme Court decided 6-3 that Trump's conduct during the riot fell under presidential immunity, though the specifics of how that applied were not part of the majority opinion.
Smith had already pinned several charges on Trump, and the superseding indictment includes the same charges with some modifications. Trump was charged with conspiracy against rights, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding.
Trump was also implicated in a scheme to use false electors to sway the final vote. Smith asserted this was all done in Trump's attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The new charges came from a grand jury that heard evidence different from the first convened for that purpose. The new indictment was defanged as Smith was forced to throw out certain allegations, including that Trump used the Justice Department to undo the election results.
It's highly unlikely that Trump will go to trial on these charges before the November election. This is a win for the Trump team heading into the presidential election and comes on the heels of another victory.
Trump received other good news this week after Judge Juan Merchan decided to delay his sentencing hearing until after the election. Trump was set to receive the sentence to his 34 felony convictions in his hush-money case on Sept. 18, a separate Fox News report noted.
The new date is set for Nov. 26, which Trump took as a positive sign. "The case was delayed because everyone realizes there was no case and I did nothing wrong," Trump said in an exclusive to Fox.
"It is a case that should never have been brought," he added. Trump said that "the public understands that, and so does every legal scholar that has looked at it and studied" his case.
"I greatly respect the words ‘if necessary’ being used in this decision because there should be no ‘if necessary.' The case should be dead," Trump added.
With both threats out of the way, it looks like smooth sailing until Election Day. Trump is the better man and better candidate, and now he's free from the legal threats that his opposition put in his way.
Atlanta rapper Rich Homie Quan died Thursday at age 34, Breitbart reported. There is no cause of death listed for the rapper, whose girlfriend found him unresponsive and "foamed at the mouth" in his Fulton County home.
Born Dequantes Lamar, Quan debuted in 2013 with his hit single "Type Of Way." Other major hits included "Ride Out," Flex," "Walk Thru," "Lifestyle," and "Power." He also made a name for himself by teaming up with Young Thug for "Rich Gang" in 2013.
Most recently, Quan's name was bizarrely mentioned during the trial of rapper Lil Woody which wrapped up Wednesday. After verifying with the judge that what he said on the stand couldn't be used against him, Lil Woody admitted that he "shot up Rich Homie Quan daddy barbershop on Bankhead."
Once that was off his chest, Lil Woody added, "I don’t what know what happened with Threat and Rich Homie Quan, but I’ma ride with my brother and they was beefin’ and yeah, we pulled up and did that." The trial did not involve Quan, and it's unclear whether it had anything to do with Quan's death which is still a mystery.
It's still unknown what led to Quan's death. The rapper was found unresponsive by his girlfriend Amber Williams in his home on Thursday morning, Page Six reported using audio from a 911 call she placed.
He had fallen asleep on the couch the night before and hadn't moved when Williams checked on him the next morning. Thinking Quan was simply still asleep, she put a blanket over him and left to take her son to school.
When she got back to the house, Williams realized that something was wrong with Quan. Williams told 911 dispatchers it was then she realized she "didn't feel a heartbeat" and saw that Quan was not breathing.
"When I turned him over, he kind of foamed at the mouth," Williams told the emergency workers. She was instructed to place Quan flat on his back while waiting for paramedics.
When emergency workers got to his home, they pronounced Quan dead at the scene. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said it would conduct an autopsy Friday to determine the cause of death, but no updates have been released since.
Family and fans alike were upset about the sudden loss of a beloved rap star. Fellow rap legend Lil' Kim posted a tribute to Quan on X, formerly Twitter, including photos and videos of the two of them performing together.
"This is the part of life that I’ll never get used to, I’m so heartbroken," Lil' Kim, whose real name is Kimberly Denise Jones, posted Friday.
"No one ever understood the dope ass friendship u and I had. u always pulled up for me no matter what," the rapper wrote. "I’ve learned in life love those who love you. Rest in Heaven my angel," Lil' Kim said.
This is the part of life that I’ll never get used to, I’m so heartbroken 💔 No one ever understood the dope ass friendship u and I had. u always pulled up for me no matter what. I’ve learned in life love those who love you. Rest in Heaven my angel @RichHomieQuan 🕊️ pic.twitter.com/u9RdDSiu1k
— Lil' Kim (@LilKim) September 6, 2024
Quan's death seems sudden and certainly untimely for such a young man. There are many questions still unanswered about what happened to him, but the loss will have a ripple effect throughout the rap world regardless of how and why it happened.
Whistleblowers told Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that security personnel were "woefully unprepared" on the day former President Donald Trump was shot at a Pennsylvania rally, the UK Daily Mail reported. Hawley said that Homeland Security Investigations agents were assigned to Trump's detail without proper Secret Service training.
Trump was shot on July 13 during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and sustained an injury to his ear. It could have been much worse as gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to get near the former president and take his shot despite the Secret Service's presence.
Hawley and other members of Congress have begun asking how this could have happened. The answers they're getting are disturbing, especially considering that these whistleblowers report that things have not improved.
These individuals charged with protecting Trump were given a two-hour webinar training with prerecorded content to prepare for the rally and little else. "'This is a nightmare; the only reason we know about this stuff is because of whistleblowers," Hawley said Tuesday on Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime.
Protecting Trump, a former president and current GOP presidential candidate, is a job that requires precision and knowledge of proper procedure. Instead, Hawley shared that the whistleblowers were inadequately briefed using glitchy technology.
"Imagine 1,000 people logging onto Microsoft Teams at the same time after being informed at the last minute that everyone needed to login individually. Once it got rolling, the Secret Service instructor couldn’t figure out how to get the audio working on the prerecorded videos," Hawley shared from a letter from the whistleblower to USSS Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr.
"All told, they restarted the videos approximately six times …. The content was not helpful," Hawley added.
To make matters worse, the whistleblowers said that the Secret Service has not learned from these mistakes, Fox News reported. "Nothing new, nothing improved since the assassination attempt on former President Trump," Hawley recounted from one of the whistleblowers.
However, it wasn't just the training that day that was the problem. As Hawley noted in a separate interview, the lead agent at the site was also the wrong person for such an important job.
"The site agent, the lead agent, was known to the Trump campaign to be inexperienced, to be ineffectual, to be, frankly, incompetent at their job. I'm also told by whistleblowers that on that day, she was not enforcing the normal security protocols," Hawley said at the time.
"She was not checking people's IDs. She did not use Secret Service agents," Hawley continued.
"Most of the agents there that day were not Secret Service agents. They were Homeland Security agents," Hawley noted.
Trump survived this attempt on his life by the grace of God. Unfortunately, it appears the Secret Service relied too heavily on that as well rather than properly training the people charged with protecting Trump's life.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of President Joe Biden's administration withholding funding from Oklahoma over its refusal to direct patients to an abortion hotline, NBC News reported. The court upheld the new regulation that replaced former President Donald Trump's prohibition on such referrals.
Almost immediately after taking office, Biden mandated that providers discuss all options with pregnant mothers, including adoption, prenatal care, and abortion. At first, Oklahoma complied with the mandate of giving out the hotline allegedly providing factual data about the procedure to callers.
However, after the 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the state refused to even provide the hotline phone number despite agreeing to do so at first. Oklahoma is now a state where abortion is illegal except when the life of the mother is in danger.
It also bars anyone from pushing a woman to get an abortion. Now, Oklahoma has paid the price as the Biden administration reallocated $4.5 million in Title X public health funding over that rule.
Oklahoma sued the administration for Title X funding as the prohibition complied with the state's new rules. The state's attorneys argued that the Department of Health and Human Services could not restrict the funding based on those rules.
They warned that doing so would cripple "critical public health services" for Oklahomans. "Depriving these communities of Title X services would be devastating," the states' attorneys said in a court filing.
However, a federal judge disagreed and would not compel the Biden administration to return the grants. Similarly, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided against Oklahoma, ruling that directing patients to a hotline was not equivalent to referring a mother for abortion.
The challenge failed at the state Supreme Court and finally at the highest court in the nation. Biden administration Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar noted that the rules regarding funding were the same across all states.
"Congress routinely conditions federal grants on compliance with requirements contained in agency regulations, and this court has repeatedly upheld such requirements," Prelogar said. However, justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch objected to Tuesday's decision.
The latest ruling in favor of the Biden administration will surely bolster Democrats' argument about keeping abortion legal after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Reversing the Supreme Court's terrible decision that set a worse legal precedent was a feat half a century in the making.
It meant that the ability to kill babies up to the moment of birth was no longer the law of the land but rather a state-by-state issue. Although it was something conservatives worked for it and Christians prayed for, it seems to have backfired.
According to Roll Call, the abortion issue has energized Democratic voters in the 2024 presidential election. Jessica Mackler, president of the abortion activist EMILY’s List, said it has become an asset for Vice President Kamala Harris, who is radically pro-abortion.
"She is somebody who has put this issue front and center because she understands that the stakes are incredibly high for voters across the country and for people across the country. And I think that that is the reason that we see this electric energy in voters across the country," Mackler touted.
While this ruling is disappointing for Oklahoma, the embrace of abortion as a winning issue points to a larger sickness in the American soul. It's a sad fact that leftist women want nothing more than the right to kill their own children, but it's worse that their votes will move the needle accordingly.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for ignoring a request from Gold Star families to visit with them at Arlington National Cemetery, the New York Post reported. The families were commemorating the third anniversary of their loved ones' deaths after Biden's disastrous pullout from Afghanistan.
Cotton, a decorated Army veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday. Host Kristen Welker asked Cotton about former President Donald Trump's decision to visit the cemetery for a wreath-laying ceremony and allegedly using it as a campaign photo op.
"He didn't take campaign photos there," the Arkansas Republican shot back, rejecting her premise. "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," Cotton said before laying into Biden and Harris for not showing up.
Cotton turned the tables on the president and vice president for their decision to ignore the grieving families. "You know who the families also invited? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris," Cotton pointed out.
"Where were they? Joe Biden was sitting at a beach," Cotton said, referring to Biden's Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, residence, where he has spent more than a week and counting.
"Kamala Harris was sitting at her mansion in Washington, D.C. She was 4 miles away — 10 minutes," Cotton said of Harris, who lives at the Naval Conservatory as the vice president. "She could’ve gone to the cemetery and honored the sacrifice of those young men and women, but she hasn’t," the senator said of Harris.
"She never has spoken to them or taken a meeting with them,” he continued. Cotton believes Biden's decision to pull out of Afghanistan abruptly in August 2021 led to the deaths of 13 service members at the Kabul airport.
"It is because of her and Joe Biden’s incompetence that those 13 Americans were killed in Afghanistan," Cotton added. The families of the fallen heroes seem to believe that as well.
The media has attempted to portray Trump's actions as an affront to those whose family members were killed. Harris had claimed that Trump's visit "disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt," Fox News reported.
In response, the Gold Star families released a joint statement supporting Trump. "We, the families of the brave service members who were tragically killed in the Abbey Gate bombing, are appalled by Vice President Kamala Harris’ recent attempts to politicize President Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery," the families said.
"President Trump was invited by us, the Gold Star families, to attend the solemn ceremonies commemorating the three-year anniversary of our children’s deaths. He was there to honor their sacrifice, yet Vice President Harris has disgracefully twisted this sacred moment into a political ploy," the families added.
Harris should tread lightly on this issue. She has admitted to being the "last person in the room" when Biden made the fateful decision to abandon the conflict, and now she shares the blame.
Biden and Harris don't have the decency to show their faces to the grieving families. This is why the Gold Star families support Trump's willingness to show up for them and even take videos and photos, and Cotton is correct to point that out.