Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly has lashed out at adult film star Stormy Daniels, accusing her of completely revising her account of the alleged affair with former President Donald Trump during her recent testimony in the hush money criminal trial. In an episode of her podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly mocked Daniels' claims, calling them "b------- #MeToo revisionism" and questioning the media's obsession with the ongoing trial.
"The thing about Stormy - what shocked me the most is that she completely revised her account of the interlude," Kelly told comedian Adam Corolla, who appeared as a guest on her show. "It went from this casual description back when she first came out with this publicly, of 'he was interesting and he was nice' - to 'I blacked out' - to 'the blood left my fingers and toes.'"
Kelly's scathing remarks come as tensions flared in the courtroom during Daniels' testimony on Tuesday, marking the first time she faced Trump in court since the public battle over their alleged sexual encounter began years ago. Daniels, wearing loose-fitting black clothes and her hair pinned back, spent much of her time on the stand recounting the alleged sexual encounter that sparked the accusations at the heart of the case, while pushing back against the former president's legal team's intense questioning.
Trump, who has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to the $130,000 "hush money" payment made to Daniels by his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, spent parts of Daniels' testimony cursing and shaking his head, prompting a warning from the judge, according to court transcripts.
The adult film star's testimony provided such lurid details about her alleged encounter with Trump that his lawyers called for a mistrial, arguing that the specifics were "unduly prejudicial" and made it "impossible to come back from." Justice Juan Merchan acknowledged that "there were some things that would have been better left unsaid" and warned prosecutors not to ask for personal details of such a nature.
Trump's lawyer, Susan Necheles, led a tough cross-examination aimed at undermining Daniels' motives and recollections, with the two women nearly yelling at each other at times. The exchanges grew deeply tense as Necheles brought up Daniels' statements about Trump, questioned her parenting, and implied she had fabricated some of her recollections.
"You're making this up as you sit there, right?" Necheles said to Daniels during the heated exchange.
Despite the controversy surrounding Daniels' testimony, Kelly and Corolla also took aim at mainstream media outlets, claiming that the ongoing Trump trial is "their Super Bowl" and "the World Series' all wrapped into one. Kelly argued that reporters were more interested in hearing Daniels talk about Trump and how "brief" the sexual interlude was because they wanted to see him humiliated.
