Knox wrote an article in the Los Angeles Times questioning whether Trump's support in her murder case meant that she had an obligation to support him in the presidential race.
“Never mind that Trump doesn’t share my values,” she wrote after recalling some of the nasty messages that were sent to her from Trump supporters.
"This conviction is both undemocratic and dangerous," she wrote. "Just as a person’s support of me should not be based upon my politics or identity, hinging instead on the fact of my innocence, so should my politics hinge on the merits of policy, not personal loyalty."
Though Knox thanked Trump for recognizing her as "a fellow American who deserved to be assumed innocent until proven guilty," she condemned his quickness to condemn the already settled, racially charged Central Park Five case, despite the DNA evidence that exonerated the five men involved.
Knox wrote that the only loyalty she “wholeheartedly” supported was “loyalty to our ideals of due process, equal protection under the law, the freedom to speak one’s mind and to vote according to one’s principles.”
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