Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly isn’t holding back when it comes to bashing her old stomping grounds.
On her podcast this week, the fiery conservative commentator tore into Fox News for going full cheerleader mode for Donald Trump over the dramatic takedown of Venezuela’s ousted president, Nicolas Maduro.
Kelly, who spent over a decade inside Fox’s studios, says she’s had it with the network’s ‘ra-ra’ coverage, comparing it to ‘Russian propaganda’ after anchors sang Trump’s praises non-stop for the U.S.-led operation in Caracas that grabbed Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. ‘Turning on Fox News yesterday was like watching state-run TV,’ Kelly fumed on Monday’s episode of The Megyn Kelly Show. ‘There wasn’t a hint of skepticism. It was just non-stop applause and flag-waving.’
She urged her audience not to get swept up in the same fever, admitting she’d once blindly boosted the Trump White House herself. ‘I know what it’s like to be caught up in the hype when you’re rooting for a conservative president, but I’ve been embarrassed before when those stories didn’t end in victory,’ Kelly said. Calling her years at Fox ‘lessons learned the hard way’, she confessed to feeling pressure to back the Republican cause, no matter the facts. ‘I refuse to join Fox’s pep rally this time. I won’t be burned again.’
The digs didn’t stop there. Kelly zeroed in on Fox personalities like Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, who rushed to defend Trump’s decision to send military muscle into Venezuela. Hannity raged that the South American country owed U.S. oil companies, while Ingraham called the show of force a ‘necessary global shake-up.’ Jesse Watters played up the raid as a Trump triumph, while critics across the street protested outside the Manhattan courthouse, demanding freedom for the captured Venezuelan leaders.
By contrast, Kelly called for a ‘yellow light’—a warning to slow down and think critically before buying into patriotic hype. ‘History is littered with American missions gone wrong,’ she said. ‘Just because it sounds good in the moment doesn’t mean it’ll end well.’
All this fireworks comes days after U.S. forces, at Trump’s command, stormed Venezuela and whisked Maduro and Flores to New York to face charges of drug trafficking and weapons smuggling. Both pleaded not guilty in federal court Monday, as demonstrators rallied nearby. The Trump administration has since declared that America will oversee Venezuelan affairs for now, ramping up tensions abroad and at home—especially inside cable news studios.
