Right-wing podcast host Megyn Kelly got into a screaming match with a male college student at a Turning Point USA event at Virginia Tech University over whether or not President Donald Trump is fanning the flames of violence in the wake of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk's murder, The Daily Beast reports.
What set Kelly off was when the student asked her how she can support a president who “contributes to the rhetoric that got your friend Charlie killed.”
The 54-year-old former Fox News host, who has flip-flopped on her support of Trump, got into an argument with the student, who told her, "You saw his rally recently, [Trump] said, ‘I hate my enemies.’ [White House Deputy Chief of Staff] Stephen Miller said similar things. How can you support him when he contributed to what got Charlie killed?
Kelly shot back, saying the student's remark “assumes facts not in evidence” and is “not true," but the student wouldn't back down, noting how the Department of Justice had scrapped a study from its website that concluded that far-right extremists have committed “far more ideologically motivated homicides” than far-left or Islamist extremists since 1990.
The student said the pulled DOJ study showed “70 percent of political violence is committed by Republicans."
Kelly ripped into him, saying, “Once you pull the crazies out of there, it is overwhelmingly left-wing violence,” adding that his comments were “defamatory blaspheme, and it’s inappropriate in the setting.”
Not backing down, the student asked if the unproven assertion that Kirk's killer was motivated by left-wing influencers, “[makes] it okay for the sitting president of the United States to incite violence against liberals."
Kelly blew off Trump's remarks about hating his opponents as "jokes," saying, the president has “every right to loathe his enemies,” because they “tried to put him in jail for the rest of his life” and “bankrupt him.”
Firing the last shot before turning over the mic, the student said, “Rightfully so, he’s a criminal."