Megyn Kelly has slammed a “crawling” profile of former New York mayor Bill de Blasio in which he revealed he was splitting from his wife.
The talk show host spoke earlier tonight about De Blasio and how the former mayor revealed that he and his lesbian wife Chirlane McCray had announced their separation.
The couple, who were married to two gay officials in 1994, announced their split in an interview with the New York Times.
On her most recent edition of The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly said de Blasio had “devastated New York City.”
She said, “I lived in New York before that man [Bill de Blasio] entire tenure as mayor (both), and he ruined New York.”
On the latest edition of The Megyn Kelly Show, the host slammed both the New York Times and de Blasio
The couple, pictured here, became one of the most high-profile bi-racial couples in American politics when they tied the knot in 1994.
Kelly continued, “We could go down the list of some of the ways he ruined New York.
“One of the main ways was he created these weird incentives that allowed the huge mega stores to flourish — like the big CVS chains and Starbucks chains and Citi Bank chains — [while] bypassing the mom and pop stores that made New York, New York.
“You know, the corner delis, the corner pharmacies owned by the man whose name you know, and the streets of New York have changed dramatically as a result.
And then the homelessness, the drugs, and finally the abolition of the police and the demoralization police, which changed the streets of New York.
So you’d think that even the New York Times, which fully understands what he’s done to Manhattan — and the five boroughs at all — would be a little skeptical about giving this man a fawning profile. But that’s what they did.’
In 2020, De Blasio pledged for the first time to cut the city’s police funding after massive protests against police brutality broke out across the country.
In all, he cuts $1 billion in funding — bringing the NYPD’s annual budget down to about $5 billion.
In a similar fashion to Kelly, DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan also berated de Blasio for ruining New York City.
The couple, the parents of Chiara, 25, and Dante, 26, are still moving in together in Brooklyn as they see other people they announced this week.
During an interview with the New York Times, where they asked for details of their non-divorce, De Blasio also spoke about his recent decision to dye his hair.
The pair have made headlines in recent years amid financial scandals — including de Blasio who was fined nearly $475,000 last month for abusing his personal police detail during his failed 2020 presidential bid — a sentence he has appealed .
McCray said she felt compelled to support De Blasio’s disastrous 2020 White House bid despite her reservations about it, during an interview about their split.
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray pose at the Gracie Mansion Conservancy 2021 Gala at Gracie Mansion
McCray is also embroiled in a high-dollar controversy — because she hasn’t explained where the $850 million donated to a mental health program she’s involved with went in 2019.
The couple’s decision to separate came two months ago, on what the Times described as “another stale Saturday night of binge-watching television at their Brooklyn home,” when the former mayor asked his wife, “Why are you no longer in love? ?’
De Blasio’s question led to a rethinking of their relationship, and the couple decided to part ways that very night.
However, they admitted that the cracks in their marriage had begun to show years earlier — especially during the then-mayor’s disastrous 2020 run for the White House.
De Blasio’s long-term flirtation with becoming the Democratic presidential nominee made him deeply unpopular at home, pursuing what critics called a vanity project while ignoring his commitments in the Big Apple.
Hours after their interview was published in the NY Times, De Blasio tweeted a link to the article with the caption, “Even in this moment of change, this is a love story.”
One person responded to his depiction of his near-divorce as part of a “love story” with the response, “No — it’s a story of narcissism and lack of conscience from a partnership that destroyed NYC.”
But others wished the couple “good luck,” with one person backing up their feelings by saying, “Yes — to love is not to be possessive.”