CNN Host Calls Melania Trump ‘Irrelevant’

CNN commentator Maria Cardona labeled former first lady Melania Trump as “irrelevant” on Tuesday after she released an advertisement discussing the assassination attempt on her husband.

The former first lady’s 34-second clip, released on Tuesday, called for the “truth” about the assassination attempt on Republican nominee Donald Trump to be uncovered.

Cardona, speaking on “CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta,” accused Melania of spreading conspiracy theories about the attempt, which occurred in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.

“Obviously as a wife of somebody who did go through an attempted assassination, she’s absolutely entitled to say whatever she wants about that. I think she’s irrelevant, frankly, and I don’t think this will matter,” Cardona said. “I do think that it does kinda feed into conspiracy theories that we’ve heard out there, but at the end of the day, what people are going to pay attention on tonight is what Kamala Harris says about what she wants to do with another four years, and if she does her job right, and I believe she will.”

CNN political commentator David Urban countered earlier in the segment against the accusations that Melania Trump’s claims are conspiratorial. He argued that there are many legitimate questions about the Secret Service’s presence that need to be addressed.

“I think she’s asking ‘how the hell could this have happened?’ There were local law enforcement who did their job,” Urban said. “There are failures up and down the chain of command and the Secret Service, there are a lot of answers that people want. I think it’s reminding the American people that Donald Trump almost gave his life to be President of the United States, and somebody wanted to kill him because of what he believed in and what he stood for. I think it’s worth noting that the guy puts his life on the line everyday in doing this and I think that’s what she was reminding. She obviously loves her husband, Barron loves his father, and I think that she’s trying to humanize him.”

CNN commentator accuses Melania Trump of being "irrelevant" after she spoke out about her husband's assassination attempt pic.twitter.com/bM4H5gvOp7

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The Secret Service placed at least five personnel on leave on Aug. 23 due to their handling of the assassination attempt, in which a bullet injured the upper portion of Trump’s right ear. The would-be assassin, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was seen on a roof 130 feet away from the rally and identified by Secret Service agents approximately 50 minutes before the former president took the stage.