Megyn Kelly taught a lesson to a lefty college student at a Turning Point USA event on Wednesday after the young commenter tried to link President Trump’s “rhetoric” to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Kelly took the stage at Virginia Tech to host the second TPUSA campus event since the assassination of Kirk, the organization’s founder — and schooled the student over his question about the slain conservative activist.
“Why do you support a president who contributes to the rhetoric that got your friend Charlie Kirk killed?” the snide, tufty-headed male student charged. “We saw his rally recently, he said, ‘I hate my enemies.’”
The conservative firebrand wasted no time in swatting down the bad faith attempt to draw out a conservative contradiction, video showed.
“This is how we get here,” Kelly said as the audience began to heckle the question-begging student. “That is a blatant lie, it’s a defamatory blaspheme and it’s inappropriate in this setting.”
When the student tried to equivocate his stance, saying Trump “contributed to the atmosphere” that led to Kirk’s killing, Kelly laid down the law.
“Well then you have no point. Then your point is utterly empty. ‘Contributing to the atmosphere?’ Let’s just be clear, [Tyler Robinson] was motivated by leftists ideology,” the podcast host said to roaring cheers from the packed auditorium.
“We know it from the bullet casings, we know it from the Utah governor, we know it from his own mother,” Kelly continued to applause.
The increasingly visually uncomfortable speaker nearly screeched when he then asked if it was “okay to incite violence against liberals” and referenced Trump’s comments at Kirk’s memorial in which the president said he does not forgive his enemies.
“The president of the United States has not accepted violence against liberals,” Kelly retorted.
“Its completely normal for a politician to be thinking about his political fights. And, by the way, Trump has every right to loathe his enemies — they tried to put him in jail for the rest of his life, they tried to bankrupt him, they tried to put his family in jail, and they tried to kill him,” Kelly emphasized as the right-leaning college audience applauded in approval.
The liberal student then attempted to make an argument about former special prosecutor Jack Smith before opting, instead, to walk away from the microphone.
Kelly made sure to lower the temperature and quell the crowd as they started to boo the intrusion.
“Its good to have some folks come up and disagree,” Kelly said.
The TPUSA “American Comeback Tour” event, which also featured Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, marks the second of eleven engagements that will take place at campuses around the country in honor of Charlie Kirk.
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