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Megyn Kelly blasts ‘failing’ Jen Psaki for saying GOP ‘manipulating’ Muslims against trans community

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Published July 5, 2023
Updated July 5, 2023, 12:22 p.m. ET

Megyn Kelly slammed “failing” MSNBC host Jen Psaki for a recent monologue that accused the Republican Party of trying to “recruit” Muslims against transgender people.

Kelly on Monday reacted to Psaki devoting a segment of her July 2 talk show to what she called a “right-wing strategy to divide minority groups” on the heels of protests at local school boards staged by Muslim Americans upset about LGBTQ-themed content in school curricula.

Hundreds of primarily Muslim and Ethiopian Orthodox parents rallied outside the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland last week, demanding that administrators allow students to “opt out” of lessons that use material with LGBTQ characters.

Psaki, President Biden’s former White House press secretary, likened the Republican bid to appeal to Muslims to President Richard Nixon’s “Southern strategy” of winning over white Southerners when he ran for president in the 1960s and ’70s.

“She now has a failing Sunday TV show over there,” Kelly said of Psaki during her SiriusXM podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show.”

Megyn Kelly hit out at "failing" MSNBC host Jen Psaki for a recent monologue that faulted the Republican Party for trying to "recruit" Muslims against transgender people.
Megyn Kelly slammed former Biden administration official Jen Psaki for claiming white Republicans are tricking Muslims into being anti-trans. Megyn Kelly/YouTube
Kelly accused Psaki of "another diminishment of Muslims in America as, 'You're just too stupid to realize you're being manipulated, you can't have a genuinely held belief'."
Kelly accused Psaki of “another diminishment of Muslims in America as, ‘You’re just too stupid to realize you’re being manipulated, you can’t have a genuinely held belief.'” MSNBC

“No one’s watching it. Probably because of drivel like this…”

Kelly accused Psaki of “another diminishment of Muslims in America as, ‘You’re just too stupid to realize you’re being manipulated, you can’t have a genuinely held belief.'”

“You have hundreds of Maryland parents protesting in Montgomery County, which is very blue,” Kelly said.

“Why are they mad? What actually drags a parent out on a weekend to protest? It has to be a lot.”

Demonstrators turned out in large numbers June 27 at the Montgomery County school board meeting over a proposal that would prohibit parents from opting their children out of classes and books addressing topics related to sexuality and gender. FOX 5 DC
Hundreds of primarily Muslim and Ethiopian Orthodox parents rallied outside the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland last week demanding that administrators allow students to "opt out" of lessons that use material with LGBTQ characters.
Hundreds of primarily Muslim and Ethiopian Orthodox parents rallied outside the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland last week demanding that administrators allow students to “opt out” of lessons that use material with LGBTQ characters. MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

Kelly said Psaki’s commentary sends the message that “the white man is evil and manipulates.”

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“The GOP is trying to recruit Muslim Americans, a community that makes up less than 2% of the US population, against another tiny marginalized group of Americans, transgender people,” Psaki said on Sunday.

“And it worked. By pitting one group of Americans against another, the GOP successfully managed to split off Southern whites from the Democratic Party,” said Psaki.

“Now decades later, the right wing is reviving that same playbook. This time with Muslim Americans and trans people.”