Megyn Kelly Slams Ex-Boss Murdoch For Pushing Iran War | EUROtoday

Former Fox News mainstay Megyn Kelly scorched her ex-boss, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and the pro-war faction of the Republican Party for “goading” President Donald Trump into battle.

Murdoch will likely be lengthy gone earlier than Americans should reckon with the fallout from the conflict, Kelly declared of her 95-year-old former employer throughout a heated phase on Tuesday’s episode of her YouTube present.

“He’ll be dead soon,” she mentioned, citing Bloomberg News stories that the Australian information titan helped coax Trump into Iran.

Earlier within the phase, Kelly had rolled a clip of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) encouraging Trump to observe by on his menace to deploy troops to Iran’s Kharg Island, a crucial chokepoint for almost all the nation’s oil exports.

“Keep it up for a few more weeks,” Graham mentioned earlier than callously invoking one of many bloodiest moments in trendy U.S. navy historical past throughout a Sunday interview on Fox News. “We did Iwo Jima. We can do this. The Marines, my money is always on the Marines.”

Kelly was incensed by the feedback, telling viewers, “Unbelievable. 6,821 U.S. service personnel died in the battle for Iwo Jima, 19,217 were wounded. How dare he speak about it so cavalierly?”

“How dare he?” she continued, noting that Graham has no kids and is “not sending a young son or daughter into battle. Eff this guy.”

Calling the South Carolina Republican a “bloodthirsty lunatic,” Kelly applauded Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who had advised the senator he was treating troops like “expendable cattle” whereas resharing the interview on X.

Murdoch, too, “is acting as if our troops are, quote, expendable cattle. You won’t have to live with the consequences of what [Trump’s] doing,” Kelly identified.

Telling her viewers that her perspective was hers alone, the previous TV character mentioned, “There’s no agenda pushing me to say one thing or another, anything other than my own opinion. I don’t take any foreign money. I don’t take any money from the government. I don’t owe any favors to anybody in the Trump administration. Nothing. Nothing.”