Trump campaign pushes back against NPR report about Arlington National Cemetery altercation

The Trump campaign is pushing back against an NPR report about an alleged altercation at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.

According to NPR sources, a cemetery official told a Trump campaign staffer that videography and photography wasn't permitted in a part of the cemetery and blocked it off, which resulted in a "verbal and physical altercation."

Former President Trump participated in a wreath laying ceremony to mark the third anniversary of an attack in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. troops during the U.S. withdraw from the country.

Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign's spokesman, said about the report: "The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump's team during a very solemn ceremony. "We are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made."

Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita told The New York Times that the cemetery official is “a disgrace and does not deserve to represent the hollowed [sic] grounds of Arlington National Cemetery.”

Arlington National Cemetery told NPR that "there was an incident, and a report was filed." 

NRP's report does not include further details from cemetery officials.