Failed morning show host/basement podcaster Megyn Kelly has joined the chorus of celebrity voices offering their opinions about the acquittal of 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse after his highly publicized homicide trial.
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Without any hint of irony, the homophobic blackface apologist tweeted on Saturday: “I love these celebs/athletes commenting on Rittenhouse as if they know anything. I guarantee if you asked them to name 2 out of the 3 men shot they couldn’t do it. How about the judge’s name? WI law on provocation? Yeah right. If u can’t answer these, STFU about this case.”
I love these celebs/athletes commenting on Rittenhouse as if they know anything. I guarantee if you asked them to name 2 out of the 3 men shot they couldn’t do it. How about the judge’s name? WI law on provocation? Yeah right. If u can’t answer these, STFU about this case.
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 20, 2021
Kelly sent the tweet shortly after another tweet in which she called one of Rittenhouse’s victims a gay sex offender and suggested he deserved to be murdered in the streets of Kenosha.
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Now, the responses…
I assume you mean that also for the people commenting in celebration of the verdict too, right?
— CurtLoader (@LoaderCurt) November 20, 2021
How dare people form opinions about a high profile trial without the careful, deep study and objective thoughtfulness and analysis of @megynkelly
— Eric (@edresq) November 20, 2021
Why would someone cross state lines, then bring a weapon of war to a demonstration? You should not glorify vigilante behavior.
— Jeffrey Tunkel (@tunky51) November 20, 2021
Celebs like megyn kelly?
— meiko w. (@MeikoWunsch) November 20, 2021
Megyn, would love to hear your thoughts on Breonna Taylor and Ahmad Arbery?
— Brian Keck (@KecksterFal) November 20, 2021
Right – because those praising Kyle as a hero are oh so well informed and thought out. Be better, Megyn.
— Eric (@edresq) November 20, 2021
Megyn — without Googling, name the defendants in the Ahmaud Arbery trial.
— Eric (@edresq) November 20, 2021
You’re allowed to have an opinion… It would be nice if it was an informed opinion…
— E Wass (@EWasserberger) November 20, 2021
Is this your personal opinion or do you subscribe to the authoritarian view that the elite and powerful (you, in this case) can tell others what they can (or cannot) talk about in this free society of ours?
Either way, it’s not a good look.— Bbenn (@bbenn68) November 20, 2021
I love former fox employees telling people they are misinformed.
— Jeffrey Case (@jeffrey_case) November 20, 2021
Kelly’s tweet comes at the same time several prominent GOP leaders, including Matt Gaetz and Madison Cawthorn, are offering Rittenhouse internships in their offices.
Rittenhouse’s attorney, Mark Richards, has called Republicans trying to cash in on his client’s acquittal “disgusting”, telling media, “There’s a lot of people trying to profit on this, and I don’t think people should.”
“They’re raising money on it and you have all these Republican congressmen saying come work for me. They want to trade on his celebrity and I think it’s disgusting.”
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Fenix443
Isn’t Megyn Kelly, a failed media personality, trying to cash in on klout by discussing the acquitted murderer Kyle Rittenhouse just as bad as the child molester Matt Gaetz or the self proclaimed Neo-Nazi Madison Cawthorn?
hatmaker
Kyle Richards should quit considering his client a celebrity and Megan Fox really needs to STFU??
cuteguy
Kyle Richards is on rhobh and yes she should quit that show. Mark Richards is the ambulance chaser that help free the murder Kyle Rottenhouse
garypegsf
Mark Richards — not Kyle Richards of RHOBH.
Megyn Kelly — not actress/model Megan Fox.
Duh!
indulged
Oh…
No.
Openminded
Who cares what Megan Fox thinks or says. The Rittenhouse case set a very dangerous precedent for this countries legal future regarding gun carry. It’s unthinkable that a jury could find this kid not guilty after he came looking for trouble and when trouble found him, he committed murder with an oh so handy AK he just happened to bring along.
SamB
Openminded, there was no new precedent set as it only upheld existing laws. Did you watch the trial? I did very closely and it was well established and proven that he went to assist with any trouble, he was not looking for it. He shot at men in self defence, so that is not murder. He brought a rifle with him, which is legal in Wisconsin. the type of rifle he carried, even at 17, is legal in Wisconsin. In the trial it was determined most people at the riots had guns, those rioting and those looking to keep the peace. There is clear video evidence that Rosenbaum was antagonizing Kyle, and then went to grab his rifle. Huber was shot after trying to attack Kyle with a skateboard. Grosskreutz admitted to having a gun and on the stand admitted he pulled his gun on Kyle first. Please understand the facts before calling someone a murderer.
DarkZephyr
@SamB a 17 year old went to “assist”, carrying a rifle, only wanting to bring goodness into the world. lol Was he carrying water bottles and sandwiches too?
Cam
@Openminded @SamB
Suuure, we get it troll, you’ve done this on several posts, you have your “Openminded” account come in and make a “liberal” statement to try to repair that screenames image, then you post under a different screename a disagreement with it.
Not only is your trolling boring and sad, but you are still a liar. It is NOT legal for somebody underaged to carry a rifle, that’s why the biased judge made sure the throw out that charge, because it was the only one the jury had zero excuse to let Rittenhouse off of.
drmiller
Who the f is Megyn Kelly and why does she spell her name like a teen mom?
indulged
…cause that’s who gave birth to her?
I dunno, just a shot in the dark there.
Cam
The reason the judge threw out the underaged carrying of a weapon charge against Rittenhouse is it was the one single charge that the jury couldn’t have gotten out of finding him guilty on, no excuses.
That judge was not going to let that guy go to jail no matter what.
Mr. Stadnick
Megyn Kelly has to make her idiotic statements on twitter now as she has no job. Why does she have no job? Because she is horrid. Why is she horrid? She is a racist. Why is she a racist? Because it sells.
barryaksarben
O P E N M I N D E D NO one believes your lying bullshit. He was a child (by law) who should not have been carrying a gun overstate lines to protect businesses he didnt know existed and was not threatened UNTIL he shot at people
whereshouldistart
I think the jury acquitted him out of fear. There were armed protesters outside the courthouse who were threatening war if he was convicted.
The jury knew if they found him guilty all hell would have broken loose and these idiots would have started shooting innocent people.
Jim
I love these celebs/athletes commenting on Rittenhouse as if they know anything
Well, they probably know as much as you do, with your superficial coverage.
They may even know more!!