Megyn Kelly blasted Vice President Kamala Harris for the “deceptive” editing by her campaign of former President Donald Trump’s call with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz from the 2020 riots in Minneapolis.
During the Sirius XM “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast on Thursday, the host and Daily Wire host Andrew Klavan blasted Harris’ campaign for claiming that Trump praised Walz’s handling of the riots, when it was actually the other way around. (10:15)
Kelly said the Harris campaign wasn’t being truthful, and the call was actually Trump calling out Walz for screwing up while the city of Minneapolis burned — before the governor finally took Trump’s advice and called out the National Guard on the third day of riots.
The podcast host played the part of the call the Harris campaign has released of Trump saying, “I fully believe with the way Walz handled it, he’s an excellent guy.”
However, Kelly said that the entire call gives a very different impression: Trump suggests that Walz’s initial handling of the riots on the first day was horrible. “You could hear him saying, ‘We’ve got all these men and women, we’ve got all the people you need, but people calling them up. You have to dominate … You have to use the National Guard,’” according to Kelly.
“That’s the context in which he praised them,” Kelly said. “You sucked in the beginning. Then I [Trump] talked to you and told you what to do and you got better.”
She then played the full version, in which Trump was on the phone and said he wanted to talk to Walz and have him explain “the difference between the beginning and the end” of the riots.
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Walz then got on the phone and thanked Trump for his “strategic guidance” and that it was “very helpful.”
Trump then talked to Walz about governors being hesitant to call the National Guard for help and noted that the first night, Walz only called for 200 people — which Trump said “wasn’t successful.”
Kelly said, “Can you believe how deceptively that call has been edited?”
“The whole point of the call was Trump saying you were screwing it up then you talked to me and my defense secretary,” she added. “We told you to get the National Guard in there. By the way, you didn’t get all of them in enough numbers.”
“And only when you did, did things get better for you,” Kelly continued. “And he’s talking with the other governors saying, that’s what you have to do. It has to be…in huge numbers in order to get the results you want. And Kamala Harris has released that with just those little snippets of praise as if Trump endorsed Tim Walz’s approach to this.”
Kelly also talked about the failure of the legacy media to do the work, pointing out the fact that her team didn’t get their hands on some “secret” phone call and saying that the truth of the call between Trump and Walz has been available since 2020.
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