Megyn Kelly blasted a liberal pundit for what she called “disgusting” comments she made about Pete Hegseth during his confirmation hearing.
The former Fox News host targeted Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell for her comments on a CNN panel with Abby Phillip about the 44-year-old’s high-stakes Senate hearing to become the next United States Secretary of Defense .
“He was very articulate and polished, and he’s a TV presenter – that’s his main qualification,” Rampell astonishingly claimed.
Scott Jennings, a conservative political strategist, immediately fired back, saying she was denigrating Hegseth’s two decades of military service.
Still, Rampell defended her comments.
“Not every member who serves deserves to be in charge of the Department of Defense,” she shot back.
But Jennings continued to attack Rampell, saying her claim that Hegseth’s main qualification for the role is that he once co-hosted Fox & Friends is “just bologna.”
“His main qualification is that he is a warfighter and he will be the closest warfighter to the men who run the Pentagon,” Jennings claimed.
Megyn Kelly blasted a liberal pundit for what she called “disgusting” comments she made about Pete Hegseth during his confirmation hearing.
She targeted Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell for her comments on a CNN panel with Abby Phillip when she claimed Hegseth’s “main qualification” to be secretary of defense is that he was a television host.
Kelly wholeheartedly agreed with the assessment.
“How can it not belittle his tours in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gitmo for the vast majority of his adult life by saying his main qualification for this job was his time on Fox & Friends,” she said on her podcast before calling out the employee the Washington Post cursed .
“F*** you Catherine Rampell because that is a denigration of his services,” Kelly continued, arguing: “His services are the reason he got the job.
“I guarantee Trump knows Brian Kilmeade better than Pete Hegseth. I guarantee it,” she said of another Fox & Friends co-host.
“But he didn’t nominate Brian Kilmeade because he wasn’t just looking for a Fox & Friends morning host to run the Pentagon.
“It’s been Pete’s lifelong service in the armed forces, and then when he was working with veterans, he got this job.
“And maybe Trump wouldn’t know about him if he hadn’t gotten a job at Fox. But that opened the door, not what got him the job.”
“You are so disrespectful and disgusting,” Kelly said of Rampell. “But that is what the elite thinks of our military and certainly of every Trump supporter – let alone of people who will end up in the cabinet.
Hegseth admitted during the confirmation hearing that he is not a “perfect person.”
“It’s absolutely disgusting, and this is what Pete, Trump and Pam Bondi will have to deal with if they take power: that they are the gum under the sneaker and that they are too ‘stupid and scared to really understand it’ . how things should be done.”
Kelly also pointed out that Rampell received her anthropology degree from Princeton, and before working at the Washington Post, she worked at the New York Times as a theater critic.
“But here she is telling us why Pete was chosen for this job,” she said.
The former Fox News host also lashed out at her former colleague Gretchen Carlson, who said on PBS that she was disappointed that the sexual harassment claims against Hegseth were not more of a barrier to him taking over the Defense Department.
“You know better than anyone that I will stand up for women, even women I can’t stand, if I think they’ve made a valid accusation,” Kelly argued. ‘You know that better than anyone.
“And I spent a day going through that woman’s police report line by line, and I’m telling you, that woman is not telling the truth.
“That is my strong legal and journalistic opinion,” Kelly said.
Kelly also lashed out at her former colleague, Gretchen Carlson, who said on PBS that she was disappointed that the sexual harassment claims against Hegseth were not more of a barrier to him taking over the Defense Department.
“Shame on you for using the money you managed to get from Fox News on this nonsense to publicize these claims because you want to see your face on TV,” Kelly shouted at Carlson.
‘I find that absolutely disgusting. How dare she come out and discredit him like this, someone who has been a colleague of his for a while.
“And I guarantee she’s never seen him drunk, and if she says that, it’s not true.”
Still, Democrats threw a slew of accusations at Hegseth, questioning him about his past comments about women in the military and “woke” policies during his confirmation hearing Tuesday, as they suggested he was not qualified to lead the department with a budget of more than $800 billion.
“I am not a perfect person, as is acknowledged,” Hegseth said emotionally, adding that he was “saved by the grace of God, through Jesus and Jenny,” his wife, 39.
“I’m not a perfect person, but redemption is real. And God has forged me in ways that I know I am prepared for,” he said firmly. “And I’m honored by the people standing and sitting behind me and I look forward to leading.”
He also asserted that the Pentagon must be transformed and take more responsibility for failures such as the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
It remains to be seen whether Hegseth can garner enough support to pass on his nomination and become Donald Trump’s next Secretary of Defense.