Amanda Knox slammed for US election joke tweet after saying result ‘can’t be as bad’ as her time in Italy

 ‘Whatever happens, the next four years can’t be as bad as that four-year study abroad I did in Italy, right?’
Amanda Knox 
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Amanda Knox faced criticism today after comparing her time in prison to the next four years of American politics.

With the battle for the White House in the balance, she joked on Twitter: “Whatever happens, the next four years can’t be as bad as that four-year study abroad I did in Italy, right?”

Ms Knox was accused of murdering her British flatmate, Meredith Kercher, 21, with her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito while studying in Perugia, Italy, in 2007.

Knox, 33, spent nearly four years in an Italian prison after she was convicted, along with Sollecito, of the murder of British exchange student.

She was originally jailed for 26 years.

The couple were freed in 2011 and exonerated in 2015 after new evidence placed known burglar Rudy Guede at the scene. He was eventually found guilty of the killing.

Knox  has since returned to the US and shared her thoughts on the election as the results started to come in on Tuesday night.

Meredith Kercher
PA

Social media users accused Ms Knox of being insensitive, pointing out “hey, you know somebody died, right?”

One replied to Knox’s message:  "Feel bad for the woman who didn't make it back from that study abroad.

“I think *she* had it a lot worse than you and your boo."

Another said: “I can think of another student studying abroad in Italy that had it a lot f*****g worse.”

One said: “Girl I don’t think you murdered your roommate, but a tweet like this makes me understand why people thought you did."

Knox, who has been married to musician Colin Sutherland since 2018, has made other comparisons to the American political situation and her own ordeal in Italy in the past.

In an op-ed for Forge published earlier this week, Knox said the situation in the US was “disorienting, sickening” and “deeply familiar.”

Knox wrote last week: "I feel perpetually lost. This year, the rest of the country has joined me. All at once, so many of us are having to figure out how to make the best of a s***y situation that none of us foresaw.

“We are an entire nation adrift. We are lost en masse,” she added.

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