Megyn Kelly says Trump’s political enemies need to ‘suffer’ in chilling rant

In what may be her most blood-curdling and sinister rant to date, right-wing media pundit Megyn Kelly has said Donald Trump’s political enemies need to “suffer”. 

Kelly, a former Fox News host well-known for her controversial comments about LGBTQ+ people, shared her beliefs about what should happen to Trump’s political enemies on The Megyn Kelly Show on SiriusXM’s Triumph channel. 

Kmele Foster, editor-at-large at Tangle News, asked “What happens if the next election cycle Democrats sweep into power?” before adding, “they are thinking we’re really going to stick it to them this time.” 

Kelly then went on a rant about why Trump needs to target his political enemies. 

She added that she believes the Republicans are doing the right thing, and if “what is required to get us back to normal, which, let’s say was 10 years ago, is more pain and suffering on both sides, then so be it”. 

She added: “I mean, we didn’t prosecute Hillary Clinton. We did not go after her. We did not lock her up. We tried to take the high road. They didn’t accept the olive branch. They tried to ruin Trump personally, Trump professionally, Trump’s presidency, and many around him.” 

‘They have to suffer’

Steve Benen, writing for MSNBC, called the claim that Trump did not try to have Hillary Clinton prosecuted in the wake of the 2016 campaign “one of the more demonstrably ridiculous myths in Republican politics.”

In 2018, Trump told the White House counsel that he wanted to order the Justice Department to prosecute Clinton. Also, ahead of Election Day 2020, Trump again publicly called for her incarceration,

Kelly continued: “They’re [Democrats] the ones who locked up Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress, Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress. We didn’t try to lock up Merrick Garland when he committed it. It’s time. I’m fucking done taking the high road. They have to suffer.

“They have to have real skin in the game before they will accept reality, which is — this move by them, repeated, repeated move by them is ruining our foundational basis. So until they know that on a visceral level, like the kind you get when you’re looking between bars, they’re not going to behave differently. So that’s, I mean, in a nutshell, where I am on it.” 

In January, while firefighters battled to extinguish wildfires in Los Angeles, Kelly mocked the hierarchy of the Los Angeles Fire Department, taking swipes at lesbians in the department, repeating claims that equality programmes were the reason firefighters ad not been able to extinguish the 37.1 square miles of flames.

“I believe I speak for all females in Los Angeles when I say, we want a strong man to rescue us. That’s what we want,” Kelly said.

That same month she also aimed a bile-filled tirade at trans star Karla Sofia Gascón following her historic Oscars nomination. 

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