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In the wake of an incident<\/a> at Arlington National Cemetery last week, wherein members of Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s campaign allegedly got into a physical and verbal altercation with a cemetery official*, First\u00a0Lieutenant\u00a0Jimmy McCain,<\/strong> son of the late senator John McCain, has announced he is voting for Kamala Harris<\/strong> this November and will \u201cget involved in any way\u201d he can to help her chances.<\/p>\n Speaking to CNN, McCain said<\/a> he viewed the cemetery incident\u2014which reportedly had to do with the Trump campaign trying to film and photograph in a restricted area\u2014as a \u201cviolation.\u201d McCain, who has served in the military for 17 years, told the outlet: \u201cIt just blows me away. These men and women that are laying in the ground there have no choice\u201d of whether to be part of a political campaign. \u201cI just think that for anyone who\u2019s done a lot of time in their uniform, they just understand that inherently\u2014that it\u2019s not about you there. It\u2019s about these people who gave the ultimate sacrifice in the name of their country.\u201d<\/p>\n McCain has been moving away from the Republican Party for some time now, having been registered as an independent and, as of several weeks ago, a Democrat. But it appears that it was the Arlington National Cemetery incident that pushed him to decide to actually vote for Harris. Noting that the episode, and the Trump campaign\u2019s response**, represent a new low when it comes to Trump\u2019s lack of respect for fallen soldiers, McCain opined that the ex-president\u2019s attitude comes from insecurities about not having served himself. (Trump famously got out of going to Vietnam due to bone spurs<\/a>.) \u201cMany of these men and women, who served their country, chose to do something greater than themselves,\u201d McCain said. \u201cThey woke up one morning, they signed\u00a0on\u00a0the dotted line, they put their right hand up, and they chose to serve their country. And that\u2019s an experience that Donald Trump has not had. And I think that might be something that he thinks about a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump spent many years publicly attacking John McCain\u2014both before and after the GOP senator and 2008 presidential hopeful died. In 2015, while discussing McCain, Trump declared: \u201cI like people who weren\u2019t captured.\u201d (McCain spent five years in a North Vietnamese prison.) The former president also:<\/p>\n The attacks on McCain are, of course, part of a broader pattern of denigrating soldiers in general. According to reporting by\u00a0The Atlantic,<\/em>\u00a0which was later confirmed by Trump\u2019s former White House chief of staff\u00a0John Kelly,<\/strong>\u00a0the ex-president\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0Marines who died at Belleau Wood during World War I \u201csuckers\u201d and dubbed soldiers buried at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery \u201closers.\u201d Though Trump has denied the aforementioned remarks, in 2016 he publicly<\/em>\u00a0went after<\/a>\u00a0a Gold Star family, and in 2020\u00a0he suggested<\/a>\u00a0a group of Gold Star families might have infected him with COVID-19\u2014despite the fact that he\u2019d reportedly\u00a0already tested positive<\/a>\u00a0for the virus before meeting with them. Most recently, he declared the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an award given to civilians for exceptional contributions, to be \u201cmuch better<\/a>\u201d than the Congressional Medal of Honor, an award reserved for military members, because the latter recipients are wounded or dead. So you can kind of see why the younger McCain wouldn\u2019t want to put him back in the White House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n