Melania Trump visited Capitol Hill and ignored shouted questions about impeachment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/melania-trump-visited-capitol-hill-and-ignored-shouted-questions-about-impeachment/2019/10/23/32e67a00-f5c2-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html

A reporter tried to ask first lady Melania Trump about impeachment and was met with silence.

“Mrs. Trump, is the impeachment inquiry affecting you and your family in any way?” Kate Bennett of CNN shouted as the first lady walked through a Senate hallway while exiting a celebration of the first anniversary of the Support Act, a sweeping, bipartisan piece of legislation that addresses the opioid crisis.

It was Trump’s first solo visit to Capitol Hill in nearly three years as first lady — and a rare visit to the Hill for any first lady. These legislative corridors simply are not part of their world, other than during State of the Union addresses and inaugural festivities.

“How is the impeachment affecting your family?” another reporter tried.

Trump strode straight past the reporters, photographers and camera crews in her tan pantsuit, with a matching briefcase-like bag. The entire encounter took seven seconds, from the room where she’d been receiving praise from senators for her leadership against the opioid epidemic to the private photo that aides said she’d be taking with Senate pages, who had been arranging themselves on stairs somewhere in the building in anticipation of her arrival.