Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said on Aug 31 that her Republican rival Donald Trump "disrespected sacred ground" at a US military cemetery, after reports that his campaign team pushed a staff member during a politicised visit.
Trump's cemetery visit - intended to provide a campaign boost ahead of November's election has instead mushroomed into a public dispute between the former US president and the military.
"Let me be clear: the former president disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt," Vice-President Harris said of the Aug 26 incident at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, where Trump was accompanying relatives of US service members killed in Afghanistan.
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