Student to Megyn Kelly: How Can You Support A President Who Contributes To Rhetoric That Got Your Friend Charlie Killed?
A student asked Megyn Kelly, filling in for Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point USA event last night at Virginia Tech see the full event here), how she can support President Trump when he
STUDENT: I want to know why you support a president who contributes to the rhetoric that got your friend Charlie killed. We saw his rally recently. He said, I hate my enemies. Steven Miller said similar things. How can you support him when he contributed to what got Charlie killed? MEGYN KELLY: Assumes facts, not in evidence. What you said is not true. STUDENT: Seventy percent of political violence is committed by Republicans. CROWD: Bullsh-t! Look it up. MEGYN KELLY: That’s not true either. STUDENT: The DOJ just pulled it from their website. DOJ just pulled the study from the website because they’re delusional. MEGYN KELLY: That’s not true because once you pull the crazies out of there, it is overwhelmingly left-wing violence. We’ve had– STUDENT: Google it-every single person in the audience, Google it right now. MEGYN KELLY: You know, this is how we get here. So first of all, let me take on the first part of the premise of your question: that it was President Trump’s rhetoric that led to an assassin killing our friend Charlie Kirk. That’s a blatant lie. It’s defamatory blasphemy and it’s inappropriate in this setting. STUDENT: That’s not what I said. MEGYN KELLY: Yes, it is. STUDENT: No, I said he contributed to the political atmosphere. MEGYN KELLY: Well, then you have no point. Then your point is utterly empty. Contributing to the atmosphere? This guy was-no, let’s just make clear. This guy was motivated by leftist ideology. We know it from the bullet casings, we know it from the Utah governor, we know it from his own mother. Yes, we do. Let’s be really clear on that. STUDENT: Even if that’s true-so then you’re saying, because let’s say this guy’s a leftist-even if that’s true, does that make it okay for the sitting president of the United States to incite violence against liberals? MEGYN KELLY: The president of the United States has not accepted violence against liberals. The president of the United States made a joke at the Charlie Kirk memorial which was funny and self-deprecating. It was on the heels of Erica Kirk saying she, in an extraordinary moment, forgave her husband’s killer. And let me finish. Then President Trump got up and, making a joke playing off what Erica said, he said, We disagree. I need to do better. Erica is going to try to convince me, but I’m in a different place. And that’s completely normal for a politician to be thinking about his political fights. And by the way, Trump has every right to loathe his enemies. They tried to put him in jail for the rest of his life. They tried to bankrupt him. They tried to put his family in jail. And they tried to kill him..
