Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump attacked Larry Hogan, the Republican nominee for the state’s U.S. Senate seat, for telling Americans to respect the verdict of former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case.

“Well, I’ll tell you one thing — I don’t support what he just said there,” Mrs. Trump said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday.

“I think it’s ridiculous and I think anybody who’s not speaking up in the face of really something that should never again have seen the light of day at trial, that would never have been brought against any other person aside from Donald Trump, doesn’t deserve the respect of anyone,” she said.

She said Mr. Hogan “doesn’t deserve the respect of anyone in the Republican Party at this point.”

When asked whether the RNC would concede the Senate seat in Maryland to the Democratic candidate by not supporting Mr. Hogan, Mr. Trump’s daughter-in-law said “of course the party” wants to win, but that Mr. Hogan’s comments were “a shame.”

“I think he should have thought long and hard before he said that,” Mrs. Trump said.

After she was asked again if the RNC would ditch the former Maryland governor in his Senate bid, she said would have to get back to the host “on all the specifics monetarily.”

“But what I can tell you is that as the Republican Party co-chair, I think he should never have said something like that,” she said. “I think that’s ridiculous.”

Mr. Hogan, in an X post Thursday before the jury returned with its verdict, wrote, “Regardless of the result, I urge all Americans to respect the verdict and the legal process.”

“At this dangerously divided moment in our history, all leaders — regardless of party — must not pour fuel on the fire with more toxic partisanship,” he wrote. “We must reaffirm what has made this nation great: the rule of law.”

The Washington Times has reached out to Mr. Hogan’s campaign for comment.

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.