Megyn Kelly Torches Shapiro, Slams Weiss After AmericaFest Fallout

A simmering rift inside conservative media burst into the open after Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, with Megyn Kelly accusing 📰Ben Shapiro of a personal and professional betrayal that she says stunned her.

According to the New York Post, in an interview with Vanity Fair published Monday, Kelly said she was blindsided when Shapiro used his AmericaFest speech to publicly criticize her by name.

What she believed was a private friendship, she said, unraveled in real time before a national audience.

Kelly said she was “flabbergasted” by Shapiro’s remarks and went further, accusing both Shapiro and Bari Weiss of worsening antisemitism by attempting to shut down debate over Israel.

“They are making antisemites,” Kelly said.

Shapiro ignited the controversy during his address at the conservative conference, where he warned that the movement was “in serious danger” from what he described as “charlatans” and “grifters.” He later singled out Kelly as someone who had, in his view, failed to adequately condemn Candace Owens.

“Friendship with public figures who say or do evil things is not an excuse for silence on the matter,” Shapiro said on stage.