Melania Trump’s ‘mainstream media’ remark is ‘dangerous’

CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour reprimands former First Lady Melania Trump over her comments attacking the mainstream media in a recent interview.

“Mrs. Trump is wrong, political violence is not the fault of the ‘mainstream media’ and I wish she would take back this false and dangerous accusation,” Amanpour wrote in a social media post Friday morning.

The CNN anchor was referring to an interview Trump gave a day earlier on Fox News.

When asked about the recent assassination attempts against her husband, the former first lady called it “really shocking that all this monstrous violence is directed at my husband.”

“Especially that we hear the leaders of the opposition party and the mainstream media branding him a threat to democracy and calling him vile names,” she said. “You’re just fueling a toxic atmosphere and giving all these people the power to harm him.” This has to stop. This has to stop. The country must unite.”

Amanpour’s post was first highlighted by Mediaite.

Trump’s session was the first interview she granted to a major media outlet in more than two years, and it came as she was promoting a new book.

Former President Trump and his allies regularly attack the mainstream media, in many cases calling CNN “fake news” and the “enemy of the people.”

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