Megyn Kelly SLAMS student at TPUSA event for claiming Trump contributed to rhetoric that led to Charlie Kirk assassination

Megyn Kelly appeared at Virginia Tech on Wednesday evening to host the second Turning Point USA campus event since the assassination of the group’s founder, Charlie Kirk, earlier in September. During the appearance, Kelly criticized a student who claimed that President Donald Trump contributed to the political atmosphere that led to Kirk’s killing.

"Why do you support a president who contributes to the rhetoric that got your friend Charlie Kirk killed? We saw his rally recently, he said, ‘I hate my enemies,’" the student asked.

"What you said is not true," Kelly replied.

The student claimed that "70 percent of political violence is committed by Republicans." He continued, shouting, "look it up! The DOJ just pulled it. The DOJ just pulled it from their website. The DOJ just pulled the study from their website cause they’re delusional.”

"That’s not true," Kelly said, "because once you pull the crazies out of there, it is overwhelmingly left-wing violence."

The student urged the crowd to "Google it," with Kelly replying, "This is how we get here." Regarding the student’s claim about Trump, she said, "That is a blatant lie, it’s a defamatory blaspheme and it’s inappropriate in this setting."

The student claimed that he was saying Trump "contributed to the political atmosphere" that led to Kirk’s killing. Kelly said to growing applause, "Well then you have no point. Then your point is utterly empty. ‘Contributing to the atmosphere?’ Let’s just be clear, [Tyler Robinson] was motivated by leftist ideology. We know it from the bullet casings, we know it from the Utah governor, we know it from his own mother."

"Let’s say this guy’s a leftist," the student said before asking, "even if that’s true, does that make it okay for the sitting president of the United States to incite violence against liberals?"

“The president of the United States has not accepted violence against liberals,” Kelly responded. "The president of the United States made a joke at the Charlie Kirk memorial, which was funny and self-deprecating. It was on the heels of Erika Kirk saying she, in an extraordinary moment, forgave her husband’s killer."

"And then President Trump got up and, making a joke playing off of what Erika said, he said, we disagree. I need to do better. Erika’s gonna try to convince me but I’m in a different place. And that’s completely normal to be thinking about his political fights. And, by the way, Trump has every right to loathe his enemies — they tried to put him in jail for the rest of his life, they tried to bankrupt him, they tried to put his family in jail, and they tried to kill him."

As the crowd erupted into applause, the student attempted to make an argument about former special prosecutor Jack Smith, but after Kelly calmed the crowd and handed it back over to the student, he opted to walk away.

Kelly told the crowd after the interaction, "It’s good to have some folks come up and disagree."

The Virginia stop is the second on Turning Point’s campus tour being carried out across the country in the wake of Kirk’s assassination on September 10 at a Utah State University campus event. Also speaking at the Wednesday night event at Virginia Tech was Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin. The next stop on the tour is at Utah State on September 30, and will feature speakers Senator Mike Lee, Rep. Andy Biggs, Utah Governor Spencer Cox, and former Rep Jason Chaffetz.