Megyn Kelly has accused ABC News’s presidential debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis of doing Kamala Harris’ bidding.
The former NBC and Fox News star said she was ‘disgusted’ by the moderators’ real-time fact-checking of former president Donald Trump as she pointed out that they did not do the same for VP Harris.
‘I’m disgusted. I’m ashamed of those moderators at ABC News. They did exactly what their bosses wanted them to do,’ Kelly said on her YouTube show, The Megyn Kelly Show.
Kelly then brought up Disney executive Dana Walden’s relationship with VP Kamala Harris, who she claimed was the ‘person who runs ABC.’
‘They did Dana Walden’s bidding tonight,’ Kelly added. ‘It was three against one.’
Harris has credited Walden with setting her up with second gentleman Doug Emhoff, who has known the executive’s husband Matt Walden for decades.
ABC News has previously clarified that Walden oversees only corporate matter such as budgets and staff size and has no say in editorial decisions, as previously reported by The New York Times.
But Kelly insisted on Tuesday that the relationship is further evidence of the network’s bias against Trump.
‘They are trying to steal this election,’ she said. ‘They are openly working to sink Donald Trump.’
Trump himself has previously claimed that Walden’s relationship with Harris means ABC News is biased against him.
‘I agreed to do [the debate] because they wouldn’t do any other network,’ Trump told Fox News.
‘[Harris’] best friend is the head of the network.’
Kelly herself had a notoriously testy exchange with Trump when she moderated one of the presidential debates in 2016.
Trump accused Kelly of being biased against him, saying, ‘She had blood coming out of her eyes. Or blood coming out of her wherever.’
Following Tuesday’s debate, many right-wing pundits and social media users accused Muir and Davis of repeatedly fact checking the former president while letting Harris off the hook on several issues, including her positions on fracking, the economy and Afghanistan.
rump was fact-checked on several issues, including abortion, Obamacare, the January 6 riots and the unfounded claim that migrants have been eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump, shortly after he left the stage in Philadelphia, sent out a message on his social media platform: ‘I thought that was my best debate, EVER, especially since it was THREE ON ONE!’
The former president also called into Fox & Friends on Wednesday and slammed ABC for fact-checking his claims in real time while not doing the same for VP Harris.
‘It was 3-to-1, it was a rigged deal as I assumed it would be because when you looked at the fact they were correcting everything and not correcting with her,’ Trump said.