Melania Trump draws fire over 'awfully strange' photo-op at National Archives

More than a few questions are being raised over an invitation extended to Melania Trump to be featured at a ceremony at the National Archives which is being construed by some critics as a photo-op that could help with Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. According to a report from Politico's Michael Schaffer, it is "awfully strange" that Melania is the featured guest at the scheduled naturalization ceremony considering the fraught relationship between the National Archives and Donald Trump, who has been in a protracted battle over stolen documents stored at Mar-a-Lago. The answer he suggested, is that the Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan, knows the former first lady from working with her before, with a spokesperson for the archives claiming, "Naturalization ceremonies at the National Archives are not political events, and speakers are not invited in a political capacity." According to Washington University law professor Kathleen Clark, "I think with an almost religious fervor that it actually is really important to prevent naturalization ceremonies from being exploited for partisan political purposes, or even conducting them in a way for reasonable people to even think they might be connected to partisan political activity."