Megyn Kelly Identifies The ‘Idiots’ Actually Responsible For ABC News’ $15 Million Mistake

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President Donald Trump scored a big win in his ongoing feud with the mainstream media when ABC News agreed to fork over $15 million to settle a defamation case stemming from comments made about him on the air earlier this year.

The network and anchor George Stephanopoulos issued public statements acknowledging the error, but political commentator Megyn Kelly says there are others behind the scenes who deserve blame.

According to the Daily Caller:

“You’re idiots! Stephanopoulos is an idiot, and so are his producers,” Kelly said. “Because let me tell you, in all my years at Fox, never mind my short stint at NBC, the producers have a couple of main jobs. One is to arm the anchor with facts. Fail. OK, fail there. And two is to protect the anchor. You protect the anchor. So if the anchor is out there saying something colossally stupid, usually if you have a great producer, they’ll get in your ear to say, ‘No, it’s this. No, it’s that. Be careful.’”

“That happens with me all the time on this show. My producers, the ones who run herd on various segments that I’m doing, if they realize I’ve said something inaccurate or that I’m searching for a fact are constantly in my ears,” Kelly added. “It’s why I wear these headphones to say, ‘It’s this or it’s that.’ This whole thing that you’re watching and listening to is a team effort. And 10 times that, a hundred times that, on ABC broadcast news and a Sunday show like the one George Stephanopoulos sits for — partisan hack!”

The settlement has sparked significant discussion on social media in recent days:

Trump is also targeting other outlets and organizations over their election coverage, as NBC News reported:

Donald Trump is suing Ann Selzer, her polling firm, The Des Moines Register and the newspaper’s parent company, Gannett, accusing them of consumer fraud, according to a copy of the filing reviewed by NBC News.

The suit, filed Monday night in Polk County, Iowa, says it seeks “accountability for brazen election interference” over a Nov. 2 poll that showed Kamala Harris up by 3 percentage points in Iowa.

Trump won the state by double digits, a difference that his lawyers argue in the suit constitutes “election-interfering fiction.” Trump is making the claim under the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act, which prohibits deceptive advertising.

“I’m doing this because I feel I have an obligation to. I’m going to be bringing one against the people in Iowa, their newspaper, which had a very, very good pollster who got me right all the time, and then just before the election, she said I was going to lose by 3 or 4 points,” Trump said in discussing the suit Monday.

Some other media figures have expressed frustration with ABC News for agreeing to the settlement in the first place:

Here’s a clip from Kelly’s recent monologue:

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