Donald Trump’s decision to abruptly walk away from his ‘Meet the Press’ interview may have garnered criticism from many, but not from Megyn Kelly. The journalist-cum-media personality defended the President for his much-discussed crash-out in her latest monologue. Instead, she blamed host Kristen Welker for continuously irking Trump.
Megyn Kelly defends Donald Trump after he walked out of NBC interview
Recently, on The Megyn Kelly Show, the titular host agreed with the POTUS leaving his interview with Kristen Welker.
“I gotta be honest, I don’t blame him,” Megyn Kelly noted on her show’s June 8 broadcast. “He sat there with her for quite some time, reportedly they were together for an hour, and the problem for Kristen Welker is she made that moment about Kristen Welker and about the vaunted reputation of NBC News.”
Kelly continued, “When you are interviewing the President of the United States, especially Donald Trump, you’re going to have to give him a little, you’ve got to give him something, there’s a back and forth in an interview where you can’t just keep battering him over the head at every turn…She’s got to take every point on, because you know, otherwise you’re an election denier.”
Notably, Donald Trump stormed off his ‘Meet the Press’ interview with Kristen Welker. This was after she continued to press him about his claims about the supposed theft of votes by the Democrats in California.
Megyn Kelly also detailed how Welker should’ve acted to de-escalate the situation. She stated, “Kristen Welker, you’ve undermined your own credibility…This is Trump’s tactic. He’s angry with you. Don’t take the beat. You don’t have to respond to the personal attack in the moment just because he makes it, whatever. Or maybe try to be playful, maybe try to lighten the mood, because you can see he’s getting agitated, he’s got a lot on his plate. The whole thing was very antagonistic, and so if you watch the whole thing, there was a lot of this prior to the moment we just showed you. And honestly, by the time he got up and walked, I didn’t blame him, and I wasn’t surprised. She was rude.”
Meanwhile, Kristen Welker has yet to respond to Donald Trump’s abrupt exit, as well as Megyn Kelly’s comments.
