First lady Melania Trump responded to Stanford Law professor Pamela Karlan invoking the name of her son during the House Judiciary impeachment hearings.
“A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics,” Trump said Wednesday on Twitter. “Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it.”
[Watch: Matt Gaetz rips into Democratic impeachment witness for ‘mean’ attack on Barron Trump]
A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics. Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it.
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) December 4, 2019
Karlan brought up the 13-year-old son of the president, Barron Trump, after she was asked a question about what differentiated a president from a king. “The Constitution doesn’t allow titles of nobility,” she said. “So, while the president can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron.”
The comment brought a rebuke from Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz during the hearing, who called the comment “mean.” Barron’s older brother, Donald Trump Jr., also torched Karlan, saying her statement was “grotesque.”
“How vile of a person do you have to be to attack a 13 year old child on national TV for laughs? Apparently, vile enough to be the supposed star witness for Democrats,” Trump Jr. wrote on Twitter.
How vile of a person do you have to be to attack a 13 year old child on national TV for laughs?
Apparently, vile enough to be the supposed star witness for Democrats.
Grotesque. https://t.co/duljFjieWI
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 4, 2019
President Trump’s youngest son has come into the public spotlight on occasion. Critics of the president most recently attacked him for not taking Barron to Game 5 of the World Series.
