JD Vance claimed Wednesday that the media is manufacturing a story about whether someone in Donald Trump's campaign was involved in a physical altercation with a top official at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday and defended the former president over accusations that the campaign did not have permission to film at a grave site Vance at a campaign rally in Erie Pennsylvania insisted there's no story to be told the altercation at Arlington Cemetery is the media creating a story where I really don't think there is one Vance said there is verifiable evidence that the campaign was allowed to have a photographer there they were invited to have a photographer there there is verifiable evidence that the families of these poor people who had their loved ones die three years ago at Abbey Road excuse me Abby gate those 13 Americans a lot of them were there with the president they invited him to be there and support him Vance continued