It seems like Megyn Kelly is now taking her cues from Nancy Mace.
The right-wing media personality said on her SiriusXM show Monday that she thinks the U.S. military was too soft with their Sept. 2 airstrike of a supposed drug-smuggling vessel in the Caribbean — and that the two survivors, who were eventually killed by a second strike, got off too easy.
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“I really do kind of not only want to see them killed in the water, whether they’re on the boat or in the water, but I’d really like to see them suffer,” Kelly said before sharing a twisted fantasy of how she’d like to see President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth handle alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers.
“I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so that they lose a limb and bleed out a little,” Kelly said.
“Like I’m really having a difficult time ginning up sympathy for these guys who 10 seconds earlier almost got taken out by the initial bomb,” Kelly added. “But because they managed to get ejected, you know, a little too soon, had to be taken out in the water.”
Critics on X found Kelly’s bloodlust pretty “sick,” with some calling her a “soulless ghoul” and a “war crimes cheerleader.”
The Trump administration has insisted the vessel was trying to smuggle drugs into the U.S. and was packed with dangerous “narco-terrorists” from Venezuela. But, thanks to a bombshell report published last week by the Washington Post, the White House and Department of Defense have come under scrutiny.
According to the Post, after the initial missile strike on the boat, commanders watching through a drone live feed noticed two survivors clinging onto the wreckage in the water. The Special Operations commander supervising the operation then ordered a second strike to kill the two survivors to comply with a demand from Hegseth, the newspaper said, citing two sources familiar with the operation.
“The order was to kill everybody,” one of the sources told The Post.
Trump told reporters Sunday that Hegseth told him “he did not say that and I believe him, 100%.”
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Killing the survivors of a destroyed vessel is a textbook example of a war crime, according to the U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual.
“For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal,” the manual reads on page 1088.
It also states on page 239 that it is “dishonorable and inhumane” to attack people in a “helpless state” due to “wounds, sickness, or shipwreck.”
Kelly added on her show Monday that although the armed forces “should, umm, not commit war crimes,” she does “feel like I object to even the scrutiny of this, of this event, because it’s all manufactured.”
“It’s only being done to retroactively justify this ‘Seditious Six,’” Kelly said, referring to Democratic members of Congress who posted the video last month urging troops to “refuse illegal orders.”
“Nor do I really care that we’re killing the drug boat guys trying to kill my kids and yours right now by bringing their fentanyl to the United States,” Kelly said. “To try to get our kids when they go to college with, you know, some drug in some moment of weakness where they think they’re taking a Xanax.”