{"id":219208,"date":"2026-01-27T22:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/megyn-kelly-says-she-doesnt-feel-bad-for-alex-pretti-believes-icu-nurse-was-to-blame-for-his-own-death\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:00:45","slug":"megyn-kelly-says-she-doesnt-feel-bad-for-alex-pretti-believes-icu-nurse-was-to-blame-for-his-own-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/megyn-kelly-says-she-doesnt-feel-bad-for-alex-pretti-believes-icu-nurse-was-to-blame-for-his-own-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Megyn Kelly Says She Doesn&#8217;t &#8216;Feel Bad&#8217; For Alex Pretti, Believes ICU Nurse Was to Blame For His Own Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The tide of public opinion has turned against ICE and DHS operations in Minneapolis, and the Trump administration is in the process of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/01\/kristi-noem-expected-to-be-relieved-of-duties-in-minneapolis-amid-growing-demands-for-impeachment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">removing some of its most prominent officials<\/a> from the city and quietly \u201creassigning\u201d them.<\/p>\n<p>After stubbornly standing his ground for weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarketNews_Feed\/status\/2016256989207155045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump now appears to be backing away<\/a> from his administration\u2019s previous claim that slain ICU nurse Alex Pretti was a \u201cdomestic terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s good news for fans of common sense.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s bad news for the various MAGA pundits who thought they were doing the White House\u2019s bidding by blindly supporting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/01\/renee-good-was-shot-4-times-by-ice-agent-new-report-reveals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2182961650-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Media personality Megyn Kelly speaks at Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump's campaign rally at the PPG Paints Arena on November 04, 2024 in  \" class=\"wp-image-546638 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2182961650-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2182961650-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2182961650-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2182961650-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2182961650-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2182961650-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2182961650-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2182961650-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Media personality Megyn Kelly speaks at Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign rally at the PPG Paints Arena on November 04, 2024 in  <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Megyn Kelly apparently didn\u2019t get the memo before she hosted her Sirius XM show on Monday because she continued to denigrate Pretti.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I\u2019m supposed to feel sorry for Alex Pretti, but I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t,\u201d Kelly proudly told her audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know why I wasn\u2019t shot by Border Patrol this weekend? Because I kept my a-s inside and out of their operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly spent years as a proud Second Amendment-supporting, \u201cdon\u2019t tread on me\u201d conservative, so her declaration that US citizens should stay inside to avoid being executed by federal agents came as a shock to many.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Megyn Kelly Breaks Down the TRUTH About the Shooting of Alex Pretti and What Really Happened Before\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j4nJVPF3tK8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>And not surprisingly, Megyn is now receiving backlash from quite a few high-profile critics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefending raping 14 year olds as not pedophilia and attacking killed ICU nurses who served veterans \u2013 been quite a few month run here,\u201d former Biden aide Neera Tanden posted on X (formerly Twitter), according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/spiraling-megyn-kelly-slammed-for-evil-take-on-nurse-killed-by-border-patrol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Daily Beast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou chose to be cruel instead of compassionate; to be evil in spirit instead of empathetic; to ignore what God asks us to do\u2014 \u2018You shall love your neighbor as yourself,&#8217;\u201d echoed former RNC chairman Michael Steele, adding:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatthew 22:39. Perhaps Megyn you don\u2019t feel anything for Alex because you don\u2019t feel anything for yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can tell these people aren\u2019t actually religious because if they were they\u2019d actually be worried about going to hell,\u201d Meidas Touch co-founder Brett Meiselas chimed in.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"841\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-841x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Megyn Kelly attends the 2025 TIME100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24, 2025 in New York City. \" class=\"wp-image-546639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-841x1024.jpg 841w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-768x935.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-1682x2048.jpg 1682w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-788x960.jpg 788w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-887x1080.jpg 887w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-986x1200.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"841\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-841x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Megyn Kelly attends the 2025 TIME100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24, 2025 in New York City. \" class=\"wp-image-546639 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-841x1024.jpg 841w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-768x935.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-1682x2048.jpg 1682w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-788x960.jpg 788w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-887x1080.jpg 887w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-986x1200.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2211858477-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Megyn Kelly attends the 2025 TIME100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24, 2025 in New York City. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for TIME)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf someone said they don\u2019t feel sorry for Charlie Kirk she would lose it but if it\u2019s an ICU nurse who did nothing wrong then it\u2019s OK, according to Megyn. Nice!\u201d pundit Harry Sisson added.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in her broadcast, Kelly echoed Vice President JD Vance\u2019s claim that Pretti was part of the \u201cengineered chaos\u201d in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was there with a loaded gun looking to cause trouble for the Border Patrol agents, and that trouble came back on him,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so sick of this bull\u2014t. These are organized agitators who train to disrupt and in some cases hurt law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There has been no evidence that Pretti was looking to cause trouble, or that he was part of any organized network, but those are claims that Kelly and others have been repeating for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how her rhetoric evolves if the Trump administration continues its gradual withdrawal from Minnesota.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/01\/megyn-kelly-says-she-doesnt-feel-bad-for-alex-pretti-believes-icu-nurse-was-to-blame-for-his-own-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 3 minutes The tide of public opinion has turned against ICE and DHS operations in Minneapolis, and the Trump administration is in the process of removing some of its most prominent officials from the city and quietly \u201creassigning\u201d them. After stubbornly standing his ground for weeks, Trump now appears to be backing away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-219208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}