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Megyn Kelly has spent the past few days exactly where she likes to be: at the center of the political and media food fight, and very much in control of her own spotlight. On her SiriusXM and podcast platform The Megyn Kelly Show, recent episodes have featured high-profile guests including FBI Director Kash Patel, with Kelly pressing him on new details about the arrest of the alleged January 6 pipe bomber and the separate assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, particularly rumored “Transtifa” ties and the authenticity of key text messages, as highlighted on her own site MegynKelly dot com. Those interviews may carry lasting biographical weight, reinforcing her role as a go-to interrogator for the Trump era’s most polarizing law-and-order stories.
At the same time, one particular December episode has ignited a wider media brushfire. According to Snopes and AllSides, Kelly used her show to discuss reports that the U.S. military carried out a second strike on survivors of a suspected Venezuelan drug boat, and said she wanted to see those survivors “killed in the water” and to “see them suffer.” Both outlets reviewed the full segment and rated the now-viral quotations as accurately attributed, knocking down any claim that the clip was deceptively edited. Snopes also notes that the controversy ties Kelly’s commentary directly to scrutiny of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a flashpoint that could linger in future accounts of her hardline national-security rhetoric.
The backlash has been swift. The Times of India reports that podcaster Tim Miller blasted Kelly’s language as “torture fantasies” and “a disease” in a widely shared post on X, warning that not all of those killed or targeted may have been traffickers. That criticism has given the story international legs and reframed Kelly, again, as the embodiment of a certain right-wing id.
In parallel, her culture-war sniping remains intact. Entertainment sites including The Daily Beast and AOL report that she recently tore into Jimmy Kimmel’s wife and producer Molly McNearney over a Women in Entertainment speech criticizing Donald Trump and lamenting threats to free speech, even repurposing the infamous “blood coming out of her wherever” insult once aimed at Kelly herself. It is classic Megyn Kelly: turning an old wound into a new weapon, and ensuring her name lives on in both the political pages and the gossip columns.
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