Longtime pro-Trump commentator Megyn Kelly had some harsh words for FBI Director Kash Patel over how he handled the first hours after the Brown University shooting, The Daily Beast reported on Monday.

Kelly, who said she considers Patel to be a "friend," particularly slammed how the Trump official handled the initial detention of a "person of interest," touting that capture only to have to admit later that he was not involved. As of this morning, reports indicated that police essentially had to start the investigation over with the release of the initial suspect.

“I really actually think we can get past ‘person of interest’ turned out not to be the person. I think we can get past it. But it has to require utter, blatant transparency and honesty. But I’m not gonna lie, it’s not good,” said Kelly on her podcast. “It’s not good that our friend Kash Patel tweeted out they have a person of interest in custody and kind of patting themselves on the back when it wasn’t the guy. None of this is good.”

“I’m sorry, but Keystone Cops comes to mind when you look at what happened at Brown University over the past 36 hours,” Kelly continued. “Now, how much time has been lost in tracking the real killer because they were very focused on this guy?”

Notably, Patel has made a similar mistake before, getting way ahead of the details on who authorities were questioning in the immediate aftermath of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk's murder at a political event in Utah in September.

All of this comes following reports that President Donald Trump himself has been frustrated with how Patel is handling the job, compounded by a scandal involving his personal use of FBI aircraft and using government security detail for his girlfriend.

A former GOP speechwriter flagged a troubling part of a new "emergency" that President Donald Trump declared on Monday.

Trump announced during the Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation at the White House on Monday that his administration is designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. The designation could give the administration more leeway to conduct its strikes against alleged drug boats in international waters.

Tim Miller, host of "The Bulwark Podcast," discussed the move in a new reaction video on YouTube.

"Here's the thing. Fentanyl is obviously terrible, but this is absurd," Miller said. "Fentanyl is used in hospitals. So, are hospitals now using a weapon of mass destruction? I hate to be pedantic here, but fentanyl is a pain relief opiate that has legitimate uses. It is not an atom bomb or sarin gas. It shows you a little bit about the rigor with which they are taking this declaration."

"The points he's making aren't logical," he continued. "But to me, what you're seeing here is they are using this term 'weapon of mass destruction' in the same way that they use the term 'emergency.' They want to create some kind of legal structure, and it will get struck down, but some kind of defensible argument for expanding their war efforts against these drug cartels."

A state judge in Wisconsin ruled Monday that a criminal forgery case can proceed against former aides to President Donald Trump, in connection with the 2020 plot to stand fake electors and overturn the presidential election.

It's one of the last remaining pieces of litigation pending over the 2020 election, as other cases against Trump and his acolytes around the country have either been pleaded out, dismissed, or resolved in other ways. Another such case is still advancing in Nevada, as well.

According to The Associated Press' Scott Bauer, "Dane County Circuit Judge John Hyland ruled that there was probable cause to proceed with the 11 felony forgery charges against Jim Troupis, who was Trump’s campaign attorney in Wisconsin, and Mike Roman, Trump’s director of Election Day operations in 2020." Specifically, per the report, "the judge said communication from the defendants showed their intent to present as legitimate a certificate awarding Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes to Trump, not a document to be accepted only if a court ruled that Trump won the state."

Troupis and Roman maintain they committed no illegal activity and were simply trying to pursue legal options to challenge the election in the event of uncertainty.

"The preliminary hearing of a third person charged, former Trump attorney Ken Chesebro, was postponed amid questions about what statements the man made to prosecutors that could be admitted in court," the report noted. "The judge said he wanted to hold a separate hearing on whether comments Chesebro made in an agreement with Wisconsin investigators were allowed to be admitted at trial."

Chesebro, who notoriously provided legal guidance on how to overturn legitimately confirmed electors, has already pleaded guilty to charges against him in Georgia, and in June of this year, he was disbarred from practicing law in New York.