Megyn Kelly Just Obliterates Lefty Student Who Tried to Pin Blame for Kirk Assassination on Trump’s Words

Megyn Kelly Just Obliterates Lefty Student Who Tried to Pin Blame for Kirk Assassination on Trump’s Words

• Megyn Kelly forcefully rebuts a student’s claim tying rhetoric to Charlie Kirk’s killing.
• The exchange highlights political double standards and media-driven narratives.
• Polling and research suggest a worrying tolerance for political violence on the left.

Charlie Kirk’s campus tour has been a lightning rod, and at Virginia Tech a liberal student tried to pin the blame for Kirk’s assassination on President Trump’s rhetoric. Megyn Kelly didn’t flinch — she called the accusation a flat-out lie and shut it down on the spot. The exchange was brisk, pointed, and exactly what people expect from a hard-hitting debate on campus.

“Why do you support a president who contributes to the rhetoric that got your friend Charlie Kirk killed?” the student asked. “We saw his rally recently, he said, ‘I hate my enemies.’” Kelly answered directly: “This is how we get here,” Kelly replied. “That is a blatant lie, it’s a defamatory blaspheme, and it’s inappropriate in this setting.”

The student doubled down, insisting the president “contributed to the atmosphere” that led to the killing, but Kelly methodically dismantled that framing. “Well then, you have no point. Then your point is utterly empty. ‘Contributing to the atmosphere?’ Let’s just make clear, [Kirk’s assassin] was motivated by leftist ideology,” she fired back. “We know it from the bullet casings, we know it from the Utah governor, we know it from his own mother.”

This wasn’t theater — it was a clear refusal to accept the blame-shifting narrative that says words are equivalent to murder. Too often when violence happens the left searches for an easy culprit: speech they dislike, or the political opposition, rather than the individual who pulled the trigger. Kelly reminded the crowd that motive, evidence, and accountability matter more than partisan press cycles and emotional blame games.

Beyond the mic drop moment, there’s a broader concern: a recent poll shows an alarming number of left-leaning respondents express comfort with political violence or even celebration of a political opponent’s death. That survey, released after Kirk’s assassination, points to a cultural shift among some on the left toward normalizing extreme reactions as acceptable political tactics. Combined with academic studies like the NCRI brief from April 2025, it paints a disturbing picture of an “assassination culture” taking root online and in activist circles.

Kelly also reminded listeners that President Trump himself has faced targeted attacks and threats from those motivated by left-wing vitriol. “It’s completely normal for a politician to be thinking about his political fights,” she said. “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.”

At the end of the exchange the student retreated, and the moment laid bare a persistent truth: pointing fingers at speech is an easy out for those uncomfortable with personal responsibility. If we want a safer political climate we need to call out violence directly, refuse to excuse it with partisan narratives, and demand honesty from campus activists and the media alike.