Bill O’Reilly Explains Why He Didn’t Defend Megyn Kelly To Trump: ‘Not My Job’
In an interview in The Hollywood Reporter, Bill O’Reilly discussed his supposed feud with Megyn Kelly. O’Reilly denied such a thing exists but, at the same time, he took a couple of swipes at her.
In their interview, THR’s Marissa Guthrie brought up Kelly by referencing her comments to Charlie Rose in April, that it was a “dark moment” when Trump attacked her on The O’Reilly Factor without pushback from the host.
Megyn Kelly said she would’ve liked you to defend her more when you interviewed Trump in January.
I understand where Megyn’s coming from; she was getting hammered by Trump supporters. But it really wasn’t my place. I said quite clearly on the air a number of times that what she asked was a legitimate question. And I said it off the air to Trump, too, in a call. I said, “Hey, I would ask the same question? Not the same way, but I would have asked it.” But it was not my job to intrude on the Fox News Channel hierarchy, which was handling the controversy. Why am I going to get in the middle of that? Roger Ailes is a genius at handling this stuff. I am not going to make his life harder by putting my big mouth in the middle of this thing. But Megyn’s come out of it fine, right? Big star and doing well.