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Megin Kelly was caught up in a fierce debate with students when he stepped into the late Charlie Kirk on his fall college tour.
The 54-year-old conservative commentator is one of many famous guests tapped to visit the university’s campus at Kirk’s location after being fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University’s first tour stop on September 10th.
At an event at Virginia Tech on September 24th, students stepped up to the microphone and asked Kelly about Kirk’s death and President Donald Trump’s involvement in the intense political environment.
“I want to know why your friend Charlie Kirk supports the president who contributes to the murdered rhetoric. I recently saw the rally. He said, ‘I hate the enemy,'” the student recalled, and Deputy Director of Staff (Stephen Miller) said the same.”
The student repeated, “How can you support Charlie when he contributed to what was killed?”
Kelly rebutted that the student argument “is based on facts, not evidence.”
“What you said is not true,” she insisted.
The student cited a study recently deleted by the Department of Justice. This conclusively stated that Kirk’s assassination is far more common than the left-wing violence that has been condemned, and right-wing political violence is much more common.
Students argued that DOJ’s decision to remove the study was because the department was “delusional.”
Kelly denied the findings of the study, saying, “That’s not true. Once you pull Crazy out of it, it’s overwhelmingly left-wing violence.”
She continues, “This is how we get here. So, first of all, let me take on the first premise of your question. It was the rhetoric of an assassin who killed our friend Charlie Kirk. It’s a blatant lie.
The student revealed that Trump said in his comments he “contributed” to political tensions.
“Let’s just be clear. This guy was motivated by left-wing ideology. We know it from the bullet casing. We know it from the governor of Utah. We know it from his own mother. Yes, we are really clear about it,” she said.
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Pushing Kelly, the student replied, “Even if that’s true, is it okay for the US sitting chair to incite violence against liberals?”
“The US President has not embraced violence against the Liberal Party,” Kelly argued when he defended Trump’s recent comments at Kirk’s service ceremony, saying he “hate” his enemy.
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Trump’s remarks came shortly after Kirk’s wife Erica shed tears and told her she would “forgive” her husband’s murderer.
“The President of the United States made a joke at the Charlie Kirk Memorial, which was funny and self-deprecating,” Kelly told Virginia Tech students.
“He said, ‘We don’t agree. I need to try to do better. Erica will try to persuade me, but I’m somewhere else,” and it’s completely normal for a politician to think about his political battle,” Kelly continued.
“By the way, Trump has the right to dislike his enemy,” she added. “They tried to put him in prison for the rest of his life. They tried to go bankrupt (he). They tried to put his family in prison and kill him.”
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The student replied that Trump was being treated “rightly” harshly because “he is a criminal.” Kelly gave the students the opportunity to continue talking, but instead they thanked her time and left the microphone.
Although some members of the audience appeared to be unhappy with the students, Kelly ultimately defended the discourse, saying, “It’s good that some people come and oppose it.”
