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Megyn Kelly slammed for 'outright evil' defense of Renee Good shooting

One of President Donald Trump's most vocal supporters in the media is offering a full-throated defense of a federal agent's fatal shooting of an unarmed U.S. citizen — and is being pilloried for it.

The Daily Beast reported Saturday that Kelly excused U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross' shooting of 37 year-old mother of three Renee Nicole Good by blaming Good for her own death. On Friday, Kelly posted the new video filmed by Ross on his cellphone on her X account that shows Good turning her steering wheel all the way to the right before attempting to drive away from ICE agents. Ross can then be heard firing several gunshots, while a voice in the background calls Good a "f—— b——." Kelly, however, reiterated the argument from President Donald Trump's administration that Good was attempting to run Ross over with her vehicle.

"You can literally hear the alarm in the officer’s exclamation as he’s hit," Kelly wrote.

In an exchange on X, Claire Lehmann — the founder of conservative website Quillette — responded to Kelly's post by writing that Good "didn't deserve to be shot in the face." Kelly responded: "Yes, she did. She hit and almost ran over a cop."

Numerous X users condemned Kelly's response to Lehmann, with one calling her "outright evil." Another called her "irredeemable, un-Christian and un-American."

"One day, your trial won’t have nearly as many views as others, but I’ll tune in," the X user wrote. "What happens between you and God after that will comically surprise you, but not anyone else."

Kelly's post echoed previous arguments by Trump administration figures like Vice President JD Vance, who said Good's death was "of her own making." In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said good was committing an act of "domestic terrorism."

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'Very dangerous': Meghan McCain slams MAGA pundit's 'disgusting' defense of Epstein crimes

Meghan McCain — the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — recently singled out a popular MAGA-aligned commentator over her attempt to soften deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that on the newest episode of her podcast, McCain took SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly to task for her implication that Epstein's sex crimes against minors were not as monstrous as the media made them out to be. The former Fox News host argued earlier this month that she agreed with an unnamed source who told her that Epstein's preying on teenage girls was nuanced, saying: "There’s a difference between a 15 year-old and a 5 year-old."

"I’m just giving you facts that he wasn’t into, like, eight-year-olds," Kelly said. "But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby."

McCain — a former panelist on The View — acknowledged the backlash to Kelly's remarks, and condemned the conservative commentator for attempting to downplay Epstein's history of predatory behavior toward underage girls. She observed that Kelly was pushing the discourse into "very dangerous territory" with her comments.

"Are we going to have a discussion about if a 15-year-old is a kid or not and what implications it means if you’re a man who’s attracted to a 15-year-old, like is that somehow better than a 5-year-old?" McCain said.

"It’s all vile. It’s all disgusting. It’s all unacceptable. It all should put you in jail," she continued.

McCain went on to say that Kelly's Epstein defense was "obviously insane," that "barely legal" was not a legal term and that there should be no parsing of the seriousness of someone who exploited underage girls.

"Fifteen is a kid. And the idea that in any situation a 15-year-old should be considered anything except a child — I just don’t understand it," she said. "And it doesn’t matter what you and I think. It doesn’t matter what Megyn Kelly thinks. What matters is what the law says. And the law says that it’s 18 and under is considered a legal child.”

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'Tweeting about me': Megyn Kelly erupts at Gavin Newsom for amplifying her attack on Trump

Far-right podcast host Megyn Kelly was particularly irritated with California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on the latest episode of her show, after he posted a video of her attacking President Donald Trump.

During the Tuesday episode of her SiriusXM show, Kelly prefaced her interview with conservative author Andrew Klavan by setting her sights on Newsom. Her criticism of the two-term Democrat came after Newsom posted a clip to his official X account of Kelly condemning Trump's threats to deploy the military to American cities.

"You can’t just send them into random cities in support of just fighting crime," Kelly is seen saying in Newsom's post. "That, you really can’t do without the invitation of a governor. So we’re heading for an uncomfortable showdown."

“I’m sorry but we can’t have it, he does not have the constitutional permission to do it. It very clearly is not constitutional... I don’t want a world in which I’m siding with Governor Pritzker over President Trump,” she added. “But I will if he does it, because he can’t do it, legally.”

"Trump's base is splintering," Newsom tweeted.

The former Fox News and NBC host responded to Newsom's tweet by playing a video of a jewelry store robbery in San Jose, California, in which a group of masked people can be seen backing a van through the front of the store before ransacking the store. She then argued that the video proves California has "a crime problem" and that Newsom should be "thrilled" to accept Trump's offer of National Guard troops.

“What did Gavin Gavin Newsom say? Nothing. We’ve seen him say absolutely nothing about it," she said of the robbery. She added that rather than "tweeting about me," Newsom should instead "tweet about the constituents in his own state and do something to try to protect them."

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'It just cannot happen': Megyn Kelly gives Trump a stern warning over potential pardon

Far-right SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly recently gave President Donald Trump a firm warning against using his presidential pardon powers on a divisive public figure.

The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that Kelly dedicated a portion of her latest podcast episode to urging the president to not pardon Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was convicted earlier this month in a New York trial on charges of transportation to engage in prostitution (he was acquitted on more serious charges of human trafficking and racketeering). The former Fox News and NBC host insisted that while Trump has not publicly ruled out a pardon for the music mogul, "pardoning Diddy will create another Epstein [situation]."

"It’s the same thing. It’s telling all these young vulnerable women, they don’t count. They don’t matter, that even the top Republican president will cover up any wrongdoing when it comes to that type of a victim," Kelly said. "It just cannot happen."

Deadline reported this week that the White House has entertained the idea of pardoning Combs as he awaits sentencing, saying that freeing the rapper and producer was being "seriously considered." Prior to Trump's first election, Diddy took a complimentary tone toward him, saying Trump was "a friend of mine" who "works very hard." But the Beast reported that in 2020, Diddy endorsed Joe Biden, telling Breakfast Club host Charlamagne Tha God: "White men like Trump need to be banished."

“I am here to urge him not to even consider it, much less to do it,” Kelly said of the potential pardon. “Just to put it in terms Trump can understand — he can’t stand you, Mr. President. He was once nice to you. He’s turned on you, and he doesn’t deserve a favor from you, who he worked actively to stop in 2020.”

"[Diddy] doesn’t deserve any of Trump’s mercy," she added.

In addition to the possibility of pardoning Combs, Trump has also notably not ruled out a presidential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's chief co-conspirator. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for grooming young girls to be exploited. She recently met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche where she reportedly gave new information on roughly 100 people.

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'She hates us': Nicolle Wallace calls out Megyn Kelly over her 'really angry' content

MSNBC host and former George W. Bush communications director Nicolle Wallace is openly wondering what prompted SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly (a former primetime host on Fox News and then NBC) to transition from a successful mainstream journalist to a "really angry" right-wing pundit.

The Daily Beast reported Thursday that Wallace joined journalist Kara Swisher's podcast and spoke about Kelly after the former Fox host attacked her earlier this month. Wallace was initially complimentary of Kelly, saying that she was "one of the best to ever do cable" and that her prediction about independent media like podcasts eventually rivaling mainstream media turned out to be correct.

"I watched her every night at 9 o’clock," Wallace said. "I don’t watch her anymore, but I thought her observations about where the industry was heading were right."

According to the Beast, the two then began talking about Kelly's far-right turn once she migrated to YouTube and SiriusXM. Swisher called Kelly's show "terrible," and Wallace agreed, saying that the ex-Fox host took a "confounding turn" given her previous prominence.

"I think it’s just terrible and angry, really angry, at especially women," Swisher said.

"“Yes!” Wallace said in agreement. “She hates us more!”

Wallace's comments on Swisher's show come after Kelly attacked the MSNBC host as a "navel gazer" following the launch of Wallace's podcast, "The Best People." The Beast reported that Kelly's tirade against Wallace came in response to Rachel Maddow — who was Wallace's first guest — talking about a meme she received that read "born to dilly-dally, forced to fight fascists."

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Megyn Kelly unleashes on Pope Francis just one day after his death

Pope Francis — who was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio — died on Monday. While most Catholics around the world mourned the pontiff in prayer and reflection on his legacy, SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly used her first episode after his death to attack the late bishop of Rome.

The Daily Beast reported Monday that Kelly — who was a Fox News commentator and NBC host before her pivot to podcasting — was particularly critical of Francis' progressive legacy when it came to immigration and poverty. She accused the pope of moving the Catholic Church "in a leftward direction" when it came to his compassion for immigrants. Just one day before he died, Francis used his Easter address to call out hostility toward immigrants. The address came just after Vice President JD Vance visited the Vatican on Easter Sunday.

“The church has been participating in getting immigrants here, and then finding them housing, and helping them stay here, irrespective of the fact that they’re here illegally,” said Kelly, who is a lifelong Catholic. “And Pope Francis didn’t have to deal with that.”

"It’s caused a lot of us in the Catholic Church to wonder what exactly we’re donating toward on Sunday, it really does," she continued.

Kelly went on to say that conservative Catholics like her were caught in a "tug of war ... between the pope’s messaging and what he wanted us to believe were deep Catholic teachings, and what we understand as Americans who are watching our citizens murdered in the streets by these people to be true." She added that while Catholics should expect priests to put "flowers on the altar for Easter mass," they should push back on "funding illegals coming into the country," because "they’re not all upstanding Catholics."

Pope Francis was known for occasionally using his platform to speak out against President Donald Trump during his first administration, particularly in his calls for a massive wall between the United States and Mexico. Kelly took Trump's side against the late pontiff, saying Trump was "so devoted to getting rid of these people who Pope Francis just looked at as vulnerable and defenseless."

"You know who is vulnerable and defenseless?” Kelly said. “Laken Riley.”

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'No one wants you there': Megyn Kelly slams Kristi Noem for ICE agent 'cosplay'

Editor's note: This article's featured image has been updated.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem recently donned a vest and a badge as part of a public appearance with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly was not a fan.

The Hill reported Thursday that Kelly spent part of her most recent episode criticizing the DHS secretary for her ICE photo-op (in which she was seen pointing an assault rifle with a chambered round at the head of a nearby agent). Kelly — who was previously on Fox News and NBC News before joining SiriusXM — emphasized she thought Noem was doing a "great job," but said her "photo ops" were unnecessary.

“Why does she have to keep doing this? She’s doing a great job, her actual performance as DHS secretary, in my view, anyway, has been amazing,” Kelly said. “Just stop trying to glamorize the mission and put yourself in the middle of it as you cosplay ICE agent, which you’re not. I can’t stand these photo-ops.”

“She is an administrative policy person appointed by Trump because she was very loyal to him," Kelly continued. "Fine, but stop with the glam. She looks like I look right now, but she’s out in the field with her gun, being like, ‘We’re gonna go kick some a‑‑.’ No one wants you there."

Noem appeared unbothered by Kelly's critique in an interview with Fox News' Jesse Watters, saying: "Every day I wake up and there’s new criticisms. It’s something different every single day, so I try not to pay attention to the noise ... I will tell you that I oversee 26 different components of the Department of Homeland Security, and they are so proud of the fact that I’m willing to wear an ICE hat."

Noem's fashion choices were also criticized when she went to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador where President Donald Trump sent three planeloads of Venezuelan immigrants without trial under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. While standing in front of a cell containing dozens of shirtless men, Noem wore a tight white top and an 18-karat gold Rolex watch priced at $50,000.

“This is an administration that is trying to be populist, anti-elite, appeal to the common man,” said Adam Isacson — who is with the human rights group the Washington Office on Latin America — in an interview with the Washington Post. "You’re in front of all these people in a very poor country, who are in the bottom 10 or 20 percent of their country … and it looks like you’re just flaunting your wealth while you flaunt your freedom."

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'This you?' Ann Coulter throws risqué photo in Megyn Kelly’s face after tirade about Bezos’ fiancée

At President Donald Trump's inauguration, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sánchez turned heads (including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's) with her outfit. Now, Sanchez's choice of attire has sparked a fiery exchange between two far-right media personalities.

The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that SiriusXM host (and former Fox News pundit) Megyn Kelly said that Sánchez — who paired a white blazer with a lacy corset visible underneath — "dresses like a prostitute." She then launched into a tirade about the 55 year-old former journalist's ensemble, arguing that it was inappropriate for a presidential inauguration ceremony.

"She looked like a hooker. At the inauguration, she wore a corset. She had her boobs on display. I can’t with this woman. The girls were out," Kelly said. "I can see the middle of her boobs. I can see her underboob... this is absurd. She couldn’t even keep them covered up for a day."

"This is not my first time saying she dresses like a hooker because she does," Kelly added, before going on to post to her X account that Sanchez "has no class. No dignity. No respect."

Kelly's rant attracted the attention of former Fox News host Ann Coulter, who defended Sanchez and launched her own attack on her former Fox News colleague. The Beast noted that Coulter posted a photo of Kelly from 2010 in which she wore a revealing black dress and wrote on X: "This you?"

"Stop being such bluenoses. Lauren Sanchez looked fine," Coulter wrote in a separate post.

This isn't the first time Kelly has used her platform to criticize a prominent woman. Last summer, she accused then-Vice President Kamala Harris of "sleep[ing] her way into and upwards in California politics" after Harris became the Democratic Party's de facto presidential nominee. Journalist Justin Baragona accused Kelly of "slut-shaming" Harris, and pointed out that Kelly wrote in her memoir that she resented rumors that she slept with the late Fox News CEO Roger Ailes to climb the corporate ladder.

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