Politico reports:
Former first lady Melania Trump is slated to be the honored guest speaker today at a naturalization ceremony for new citizens in the rotunda of the Archives’ headquarters.
It is, to put it mildly, an unusual billing. How did it happen that a resident of the same Mar-a-Lago estate whose bathrooms were used to store thousands of allegedly ill-gotten Archives documents won an invite to speak in the same room as the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?
For that matter, how is it that a federal agency is giving the spouse of any presidential candidate a star turn in a heart-warming photo-op less than a month before the Iowa caucuses? The fact is, the optics of the Archives ceremony are terrific for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
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The Archives, as you recall, had some legal issues with Trump that are still in court. So why invite Melania to an immigration ceremony at HQ? I tried to find out why. https://t.co/wJoMTObQwt
— Michael Schaffer (@michaelschaffer) December 15, 2023