Megyn Kelly became a household name during her time with Fox News Channel.
But she began her career as an assignment reporter at ABC’s Washington, D.C. affiliate WJLA-TV (ABC 7).
And Megyn Kelly just torched ABC News for a flagrant act to upend 2024.
Megyn Kelly exposed tactics of ABC moderators in the Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris debate
The second Presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle has now come and gone with much fanfare.
Instead of a head-to-head faceoff, the debate quickly turned into a three-on-one handicap match.
Political debates are very seldom about who scored the most debate points.
More often than not, it’s a narrative that comes out of a debate that can steer the momentum of an election.
For example, in 2024’s first President debate, what changed the course of history wasn’t simply that Donald Trump scored more points than President Joe Biden.
It was that President Biden made it clear that all concerns about his cognitive decline were warranted.
The result was that a month later, Democrat dumped the winner of their primary and replaced him with a mulligan candidate who didn’t secure a single delegate.
The second Presidential debate of this cycle – and first between the former President and Vice President Kamala Harris – was far different.
It was a standard exchange by modern standards, a debate where both candidates could go back to their respective corners and claim victory.
But there is a natural narrative formulating in the fallout from the exchange.
ABC News moderators the biggest losers of the debate
The key takeaway from the debate seems to not be Trump or Kamala, but the moderators.
ABC News’ David Muir and Linsey Davis were the so-called “moderators” of the debate – but in practice they served more as Biden’s border czar’s tag team partners.
Many political analysts have pointed out that the duo continuously interrupted the former President, fact checked him with inaccurate information, and asked gotcha questions.
And as Meyn Kelly observed, the Vice President didn’t receive that same treatment.
And the former Fox News Channel host believes she knows exactly why Muir and Davis were so biased in favor of the Democrat’s nominee for President.
“I’m disgusted. I’m ashamed of those moderators at ABC News. They did exactly what their bosses wanted them to do,” Kelly said in a special edition of her podcast. “The person who runs ABC News is a close personal friend of Kamala Harris and is responsible for Kamala Harris and her husband meeting. They did Dana Walden’s bidding tonight. It was three against one on that debate stage this evening.”
Dana Walden is the co-chairman of Disney Entertainment, which owns ABC and by extension ABC News.
Megyn Kelly ashamed to be a journalist after ABC News debate
Kelly – who has had her own frustrations as a moderator during a debate involving Trump – said the Republican nominee for President did as well as could be expected under the circumstances.
She noted that Trump obviously was angered at times during the debate, but said she was as well and speculated so too was the audience.
Kelly pointed to the moderators overreaching their responsibilities and authority for one-sided supposed “fact checks” as part of the problem with the debate.
“The numerous fact-checks on what he said and none on what she said – none,” Kelly said. “I don’t remember a single fact-check of anything she said, and she lied repeatedly. She just got away with it in the moderators’ eyes. That was Donald Trump’s job to fact-check her. That’s correct, except you didn’t employ that same tactic when it came to Trump. And you accused him of lying, even when it was just your opinion that he lied.”
Beyond all the untrue “fact checks,” Kelly had a more fundamental problem with Muir and Davis.
According to Kelly – and many like her — the questioning was completely one-sided.
“The worst part of all of this is the obvious tactic by ABC News, which was as follows,” Kelly concluded. “‘Mr. Trump, you said something incredibly controversial and terrible. Let me remind you of what it was. Do you have any regrets or thoughts on how terrible you were?” Trump answers. ‘Vice President Harris, how bad is Trump?’ And then she’d answer. It happened over and over again. That was the format. ‘Mr. Trump, you’re a piece of s**t. Kamala Harris, isn’t he a s**t? Thank you.’ It was incredible. And then anything Trump said, ‘fact-check, fact-check, fact-check,’ and their fact-checks were full of s**t.”