Megyn Kelly Defends Trump’s Sexist Attack On Kaitlan Collins | EUROtoday

Megyn Kelly is defending President Donald Trump’s newest disparagement of a feminine journalist by recalling the recommendation of a former boss she accused of sexual harassment.

On Tuesday, Trump lashed out at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who was urgent him about his relationship with late intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Rather than answering the query instantly, the president deemed Collins the “worst reporter” earlier than including: “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you smile.”

The headline-making change got here up throughout Kelly’s two-hour interview with Vice President JD Vance on her SiriusXM radio present on Wednesday. Not surprisingly, Vance stood behind Trump, calling him “so perceptive” for seeing by Collins’ “antagonistic” strategy.

Kelly agreed with Vance’s evaluation whereas dismissing different public figures who blasted the president’s commentary as sexist.

“I literally said the same thing about Kaitlan Collins a year ago on my show. She never smiles,” the previous Fox News host mentioned. “Every once in a while, you have to smile. Roger Ailes used to tell us that. Every once in a while, you’ve got to remember to smile, show the viewers that you have a heart.”

Kelly’s allusion to Ailes, the previous chairman and CEO of Fox News, had many listeners doing a double take.

In 2016, Kelly was amongst practically two dozen feminine Fox News staff to accuse Ailes of sexual harassment. Though Ailes denied the allegations, he resigned in July of that 12 months.

Ailes died in 2017 at age 77. The circumstances towards him, nonetheless, had been the idea for the Oscar-winning 2019 movie “Bombshell,” starring Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron.

In current weeks, Trump has ramped up his assaults on Collins and different feminine journalists as they’ve questioned him about his relationship with Epstein, who died by obvious suicide in 2019 whereas awaiting trial on expenses of intercourse trafficking underage women.

The most egregious occasion happened in November, when Trump tried to silence Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucey as she was asking him concerning the Epstein information by calling her “piggy.”