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JUST IN: Megyn Kelly Snaps Back At Anti-Trump NYT Journalist In Fiery Interview

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5 days ago

April 1, 2025

If you come for Megyn Kelly, you better not miss.

A New York Times journalist learned that lesson the hard way during a contentious interview where the popular podcast star chided her media colleague for expecting her to hew to nonpartisan standards on her platform.

Kelly, writing on her blog, said Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro erred in assuming she was always defending President Donald Trump. She endorsed the Republican late in last year’s campaign but has placed distance between him as well, as when she declined to give outright support to his looming tariff plan.

A flashpoint in Garcia-Navarro’s interview came when she asked Kelly why she doesn’t believe President Trump has been credibly accused of sexual assault, citing the E. Jean Carroll case and civil judgment against him.

“I don’t believe one word” of Carroll’s claim that Trump assaulted her in a department store dressing room decades ago, Kelly asserted.

When the Times reporter refuted her doubt by pointing to allegations from other women, Kelly was unrepentant.

“I’ve interviewed some of them,” she replied. “The things I’ve heard were things like ‘he got handsy on an airplane.'”

“Now, I don’t know if that happened or it didn’t. But do I find that a deal breaker for a possible politician? Not really,” She continued. “At least I did them the courtesy of reporting on their stories and bringing them to air in front of millions of people and letting the audience make up its mind.”

Instead, Kelly’s problem lies with Democrats who will “bury” the same allegations against their own candidates or their spouses.

In October of 2024, a former lover to Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, claimed he beat her in a drunken rage during a vacation decades ago.

When asked whether she still considers herself a journalist, Kelly said she does, but the old rules of nonpartisan coverage no longer apply.

“I break news all the time, and when I sit with Trump or anyone else in the administration, I ask tough questions,” she said, adding that Trump recently didn’t talk to her for six months after a tough interview. “You have to be able to hit the people you admire, and I hit them all.”

“My owning my bias, by going out there on stage with Donald Trump and saying ‘I’m voting for him and you should too,’ is a bonus when it comes to my credibility. Now everybody has zero doubt about where I stand and they can filter everything I say through the appropriate lens.”

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In her view, Americans have grown more distrustful of mainstream media outlets because so many of its journalists “say they have no bias, and then they just work it out in the printed word or on their shows without owning it.”

But that’s not where the news ecosystem is headed anymore, she added.

Talking about her experience afterward, Kelly credited Garcia-Navarro as a “legit reporter,” even if she was intent on spinning the interview.

“The interview involved 90 minutes sitting down together in The New York Times building, and then it was another 30 to 45 minutes the next day after you’ve had time to ‘reflect.’ So, we went to the Times building earlier this month, and it was very fun walking in there. They were very polite. They treated me well. But everybody did a 180 as we walked by. It was very funny,” she wrote.

“The person who was dealing with me before Lulu came in said, ‘You know, Lulu often takes people up into the heart of the newsroom when the interview is over and introduces them to people, so she might do that with you.’ Let’s just say that didn’t happen. There was no tour of The New York Times. And honestly, why would she want to do that? It would give Lulu zero street cred walking through The New York Times newsroom with me.”

Speaking about their disconnect, Kelly said Garcia-Navarro failed to grasp “exactly what it is people in ‘new’ media – like me and my guests today, Emily Jashinsky and Eliana Johnson – do.”

“We do offer political commentary and our own opinions, but we also are journalists. We all exist in this new ecosphere where we have direct relationships with our audiences. And that was where we really kept tripping wires because she didn’t get how I can still call myself a journalist and have endorsed Donald Trump.”

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.@MegynKelly on NYT’s The Interview: “The only way one succeeds in this medium is by violating all those rules that we used to have in journalism, where you don’t really talk about yourself at all. You don’t talk about your opinions. You might have a bias – your only goal is to… pic.twitter.com/YvGH1rYahQ

— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) March 30, 2025