NBC News’ Kristen Welker falsely claims Kamala met with Abbey Gate Gold Star families during dignified transfer

NBC News’ Kristen Welker falsely claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris met with Gold Star families who lost their servicemen and women during the Abbey Gate suicide bombing when the bodies of those US Armed Forces members returned home for the dignified transfer of their remains. There's only one problem: Harris was not in fact at the dignified transfer.

Welker made the claim in defense of the Democrat presidential candidate during a Meet the Press interview with Senator Tom Cotton on Sunday as Cotton blasted Harris for not meeting with them and not attending a memorial on the 3rd anniversary of their deaths last Monday. GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump was at the memorial and was criticized for that by the Harris campaign.

"All right, let me ask you about another one of the big headlines this week," Welker said. "Donald Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery. You've been talking about this. He attended a wreath laying ceremony, obviously, for the 13 service members who were killed during the US withdraw from Afghanistan.

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