Conservative personality Megyn Kelly is trying to turn the tables on CNN and other media outlets by blaming them for the deadly riots that took place at the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6.
Kelly made her comments to BBC Newsnight on Saturday.
“Part of the reason we saw what happened at the Capitol here two weeks ago is because there had been a complete lack of trust in the media,” said Kelly. “People don’t know where to turn for true information, they don’t trust the media anymore.”
Kelly left Fox News in 2017 following a feud with Trump. She was fired from NBC News in 2018 for controversial comments about blackface.
Kelly admitted that the message coming from the White House could have contained less rhetoric. “But it’s not going to change how divided we are here in America because Trump was the symptom of those divisions, not the cause of them.”
British journalist Hugo Lowell reacted to Kelly’s assessment of the Capitol siege. “I’m sorry but I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous as Megyn Kelly saying on BBC Newsnight that Trump mobs attacked the Capitol because they didn’t trust the media — not Trump lying that the election was stolen.”
Kelly said the media would stop at nothing to ruin Trump even if it meant deceiving the American people.
“They hated him so much, they checked their objectivity, and it wasn’t just CNN, all of them did. They just couldn’t check their own personal feelings about him,” Kelly said.
