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Elizabeth Trotta (born 28 March 1937) is an American journalist andconservative commentator.
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 Booknotes interview with Trotta onFighting for Air: In the Trenches with Television News, August 18, 1991,C-SPAN |
Trotta was born inNew Haven, Connecticut. Her parents, Gaetano "Thomas" Trotta, a successful pharmacist, and Lillian Theresa Mazzacane, were bothCatholics who had emigrated fromItaly.[1] Trotta had a sister, Mary L. Juba, who died in 2002.
Trotta is aFox News contributor and the formerNew York City bureau chief ofThe Washington Times.[2] She began her career in 1965, covering theVietnam War as a correspondent forNBC News and later working forCBS News.[3] Trotta has taught journalism atStern College of Yeshiva University. She has won threeEmmy awards and twoOverseas Press Club awards, and is a graduate ofColumbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[2] Trotta also holds abachelor's degree inEnglish literature fromBoston University.
On 25 May 2008, Trotta expressed onFox News what some could claim as an apparent desire that presidential candidateBarack Obama be "knocked off" prior to the2008 United States presidential election.[4][5][6] While speaking aboutHillary Clinton's reference[7][8] toRobert F. Kennedy's assassination, Trotta said:
... and now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock offOsama. Um, uh,Obama. Well, both, if we could.[9]
Trotta apologized the next day.[10] A petition demanding that Trotta be fired was soon up onCare2 gathering over 14,000 signatures.[11][12]
In October 2011, Liz Trotta mocked the participants inOccupy Wall Street for being "people who like good weather" who spout "the ravings of what sounds like the Unabomber."[13]
In February 2012, she made remarks on Fox News suggesting that women in the military should not be surprised by the increase in sexual assaults by members of the army. In direct response to a Pentagon report that indicated a 64% increase in sexual assault in the military, Trotta said, "Now, what did they expect?" She went on to say that women "have demanded too much money to fund [military] programs for sexual abuse victims.”[14] Trotta responded to criticism of her comments the following week.[15]
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