Former (and increasingly likely, next) First Lady Melania Trump watched live as an assassin's bullet came within less than an inch of tearing into her husband's brain. Next, she got the chilling news that just eight weeks later, an assassin was lying in wait for her husband as he played a round of golf. Next, she got the news that there are potentially more assassination teams in our nation hunting her husband.
And yet, with all of that, it's not the least bit surprising to learn that far-left, self-absorbed, entitled, entirely out of touch with real-life “journalists” such as CNN’s Christiane Amanpour are offended that Melania Trump rightfully assigns some of the blame for these assassination attempts to the vile, incendiary, and indoctrinating insults and accusations so many on the left have leveled at former President Donald Trump since 2015. Words matter, and Melania Trump has been forced to witness the horrifying effect of some of those words firsthand.
While the far-left media elites living in bubbles of comfort and protection always want to make every story about them, let's step back for just a second and interject a bit of reality that every normal human being will instantly understand. Let's put politics and far-left unethical journalism aside for just a minute and view this case in its proper context. If we do, it simply comes down to a wife watching her husband come within millimeters of being executed on live television and losing him and the father of their child…forever. That's it.
Indeed, within the red haze of hate for former President Trump that seemingly envelops her mind, Ms. Amanpour -- and the army of feckless “journalists” like her -- can still grasp that concept. Be it a husband who was almost executed, or a wife, a son, a daughter, or a close friend, basic human emotion and decency is still basic human emotion and decency.
Unless it seems that you are a Trump hater from the left.
Most normal people with normal emotions would cut the husband's wife almost executed on live television slack with varying degrees of grace and empathy. But again, not Ms. Amanpour or the many like her from the left who either enable or throw about these wild accusations and charges against former President Trump and then have the audacity to claim that their words could not have possibly activated an already sick and twisted mind into deadly action.
So, what exactly angered Ms. Amanpour?
During an exclusive interview with Fox & Friends, former First Lady Melania Trump spoke to the recent assassination attempts against her husband while calling it in part: “…really shocking that all this egregious violence goes against my husband. Especially when we hear the leaders from the opposition party and mainstream media branding him as a threat to democracy, calling him vile names, they are only fueling a toxic atmosphere and giving power to all of these people that they want to harm him. This needs to stop. This needs to stop. The country needs to unite.”
Amen, Melania Trump. All normal Americans with normal human decency applaud your words and sympathize with your genuinely traumatic experience.
And yet those deeply personal and common-sense words spoken by a wife who was terrified she may have just lost her husband have seemingly set off Ms. Amanpour, who posted on X: “Mrs. Trump is mistaken, political violence is not the fault of the ‘mainstream media,’ and I wish she would take back this false and dangerous accusation.”
Take back her “false and dangerous accusation.” Are you kidding me?
Seriously, in what alternate universe of reality does Ms. Amanpour reside? Does she not know that many in her “profession” have openly labeled themselves as part of the “resistance” against Trump? Does she not read the words some of them continually write and speak, comparing former President Trump to "Hitler," a "dictator," and a "totalitarian" who will “crush democracy.” Does she truly not believe that such words could set off a troubled mind?
Why is Ms. Amanpour not calling out those in her own profession who have leveled these completely false, ugly, and truly inflammatory words at President Trump for almost a decade? Literally thousands and thousands of words of unhinged hate directed at the former president by those who pretend to be in the “news” business.
I have two suggestions for Ms. Amanpour. The first is that she offers Melania Trump a full and heartfelt apology. Next, she purchased the memoir “Melania,” which the former First Lady has just authored. Within that book, Ms. Amanpour will learn valuable lessons regarding struggle, grace, class, humility, honesty, and basic human decency.
Lessons many in her profession turned their backs on long ago.
Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence.