Reports surfaced after the ABC News Presidential Debate that the network acted improperly to help Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly says, if true, there should be steep repercussions.
A reported whistleblower claims that the network gave sample questions that were eerily similar to the questions asked by David Muir and Linsey Davis during the debate last week to the Harris campaign in the run-up to the televised debate. It also alleged that the Harris campaign and ABC News had reached an agreement that she would not be fact-checked during the event and that sensitive topics would be avoided to help her.
Those accusations have yet to be verified, but that didn’t stop The Megyn Kelly Show host from thinking about what the fallout should be if they turn out to be true.
“Somebody should be fired if this happened. I mean, the whole news organization should close if this happened. Let’s just make clear, if this affidavit actually turns out to be true, (ABC News) should close,” she said. “It should shutter. It cannot continue existing if the rot is that bad, if you cheated on a presidential debate like this. You gave sample questions. That was another allegation.
“You agreed that you wouldn’t go there on three extremely controversial things about one candidate. You negotiated private terms that would help her and potentially hurt the other guy, without the other guy on the call or his reps. You’re effed. This is monumental in its size, if true,” Kelly continued. “But it could all be a troll and made up. So, that’s why none of us want to really get out there on this until we hear tapes and actually see what’s happening. This is why it would be great to have a congressional investigation. But the whole point is not to get somebody fired it’s to get the whistleblower in with cover, where he can’t be fired and he can tell his story with some blanket of protection.”
The comments from Megyn Kelly came after she previously called the denial by ABC News — which denied any wrongdoing — “very troubling”.
