Megyn Kelly Doesn’t ‘Blame’ President Trump for Abrupt Exit From NBC Interview: Reporter ‘Was Rude’

Megyn Kelly is siding with President Donald Trump after he abruptly exited his recent Meet the Press interview with Kristen Welker over talks about the Los Angeles mayoral election.

“I gotta be honest, I don’t blame him,” Kelly, 55, said during the Monday, June 8, episode of The Megyn Kelly Show. “He sat there with her for quite some time, reportedly they were together for an hour, and the problem for Kristen Welker is she made that moment about Kristen Welker and about the vaunted reputation of NBC News.”

“By the time he got up and walked, I didn’t blame him and I wasn’t surprised,” Kelly added. “She was rude.”

Trump, 79, walked out of his interview with NBC’s Welker on Monday after the interviewer pushed back against allegations that the election was rigged against Spencer Pratt, who ultimately placed third behind Karen Bass and Nithya Raman.

According to Kelly, interviewers “have to give [Trump] a little.” Specifically, she suggested Welker should have conceded that the election was “crooked.”

Kelly continued, “There’s a back and forth in an interview where you can’t just keep battering him over the head at every turn…Instead, she’s got to take every point on, because you know, otherwise you’re an election denier.”

The journalist, along with many other Trump loyalists, believe the election that will see incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman go head to head in the runoff “stinks to high heaven.”

“I have credibility to say that because I didn’t jump on every election denial denier claim and so on,” Kelly asserted. “Kristen Welker, you’re undermining your own credibility. You think you’re boosting it for NBC by not giving him what everybody can see, which is it’s suspicious as hell that [Raman] came out of third place, a distant third in all the days after the actual vote and is now going to be the second to make it into the general election contest over the one Republican, Spencer Pratt, who coincidentally happens to be very Trumpy.”

Before walking off set, Trump hit Welker with personal attacks, calling her “crooked” and “stupid,” which she refuted.

According to Kelly, however, the interviewer should have “[tried] to be playful” instead of defending herself.

“This is Trump’s tactic. He’s angry with you. Don’t take the bait. You don’t have to respond to the personal attack in the moment just because he makes it,” she said. “Maybe try to lighten the mood because you can see he’s getting agitated. He’s got a lot on his plate. The whole thing was very antagonistic.”