Podcaster and political commentator Megyn Kelly said the mainstream media misrepresented what happened at the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6.
Kelly made her controversial claim during an interview with fellow podcaster and comedian Chrissie Mayr this week.
“We’ve all seen the video of people, like, screaming in the face of cops, being totally disparaging, and defecating on the floor of the U.S. Capitol, and lawmakers were understandably afraid — not like [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying] ‘I need therapy for the rest of my life’ afraid, but I could understand it, and I didn’t like seeing it,” Kelly said.
Mayr said that she attended former President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally outside the White House that preceded the Capitol attack.
“There’s no question the media represented this as so much worse than it actually was,” Kelly said.
The FBI has charged more than 500 people in connection with the events at the U.S. Capitol.
“So they got tarred by the actions of some losers who went a different way. And then the media did what it does, which is any bad behavior gets attributed to the entire group of Trump supporters.”
