CNN Commentator Calls Melania Trump ‘Irrelevant’ After Speaking Out About Assassination Attempt

CNN commentator Maria Cardona accused former first lady Melania Trump of being “irrelevant” on Tuesday after she released an advertisement speaking about her husband’s assassination attempt.

The former first lady released a 34-second clip on Tuesday calling on the “truth” about the assassination attempt on her husband, Republican nominee Donald Trump, to be uncovered. Cardona accused Melania on “CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta” of spreading conspiracy theories about the assassination attempt that 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 pushed back earlier in the segment against accusations that Melania’s claims are a conspiracy, saying there are many legitimate questions about the Secret Service’s presence that must be accounted for.

“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.”