Megyn Kelly: Media Represented Jan. 6 Riot ‘So Much Worse Than It Actually Was’

Former Fox News and NBC anchor 📺Megyn Kelly accused the media of making the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol out to be “so much worse than it actually was.”

During her podcast on Monday, Kelly, and comedian Chrissie Mayr discussed the media coverage of the events.

“I was there, and anybody who was there on the 6th is, like, blown away with how, like, inaccurate the media coverage is,” Mayr said.

She continued, “At this point, it’s like I don’t want to listen to anybody’s thoughts on the 6th unless they were like there, like physically there, because it just so was not a big deal.”

Mayr later called it “horrible,” adding, “Ashli Babbitt was murdered, should not have happened, but for a group of people who could have come fully armed to the Capitol, they didn’t.”

She added, “It was extremely peaceful, and chill and most of us didn’t even know what was happening until hours later.”

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Chiming in, Kelly argued, “There is no question the media represented it as so much worse than it actually was.”

Still, she acknowledged it was not a moment she enjoyed watching.

“We’ve all seen the video of people like screaming in the face of cops, being totally disparaging, and defecating on the floor of the U.S. Capitol,” Kelly said.

She added, “Lawmakers were understandably afraid. Not like AOC, ‘I need therapy for the rest of my life,’ afraid, but I can understand it, and I didn’t like seeing it at all.”