Megyn Kelly admits she ‘can’t stand’ the Trump family’s ‘grifty’ moves 76%

By Katie Hawkinson0%

7/1/2026, 10:28:58 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 28 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Politically Right Leaning Bias, and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 24.8% saturation with 143 hits. Analysis detected 1,405 faulty-reasoning hits from 577 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 68.3% and a BS Rank of 76% (4,937 of 20,409 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 75.80% of the article peer group.

Right-wing commentator Megyn Kelly admitted she “can’t stand” the Trump family’s “grifty” moves in a recent interview. 
Kelly, a long-time supporter of President Donald Trump, told Sky News Australia she’s “disappointed with some aspects” of his administration during an interview Wednesday. 
Her comments come just days after new financial disclosures revealed the president earned at least $2.2 billion last year, with more than $1 billion coming from cryptocurrency ventures alone. 
That includes more than $500 million in earnings from World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm Trump co-founded alongside his sons. 
The disclosures have led to widespread backlash, with critics accusing Trump and his family of profiting from the presidency, claims the president and his family have denied. 
But now, even Kelly is questioning the Trump family’s deals. 
“The Trump family is grifty. 
There’s been like story after story about all the money his sons are making off of the government, these government contracts they’re getting, all that. 
I can’t stand that stuff,” she told Sky News Australia. 
“And I love his sons, OK? 
So I say this as a true fan of theirs, but I didn’t like it when Hunter Biden was doing it and I don’t like it when the Trumps are doing it,” she added, referring to former President Joe Biden’s son. 
Despite these concerns, Kelly affirmed she still supports Trump over his past opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris. 
“But having said all that, it's a binary system. 
There's no question Trump is reams better than that lunatic Kamala Harris would have been,” she said. 
When asked about the right-wing commentator's remarks, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told The Independent: “This is the same, tired narrative that Democrats have pushed against President Trump, his family, and his administration for a decade.” 
“President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public  which is why they overwhelmingly re-elected him to this office, despite years of lies and false accusations against him and his businesses from the fake news media. 
There are no conflicts of interest,” she added. 
A spokesperson for the president's sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, also said that claims suggesting they're profiting from the government are "categorically false." 
"Don and Eric are experienced business leaders who have built and invested in businesses across a wide range of industries for decades, long before their father first ran for public office. 
Their investment decisions are based solely on their independent business judgment and personal convictions and they do not seek to influence, direct, or participate in any government decision, procurement, award, regulatory action, or other governmental process. 
Attempts to portray their ordinary investment activities as improper are a deliberate distortion of the facts," the spokesperson told The Independent. 
Trump responded Wednesday to critics who accused him of making money off the presidency by claiming that he’s profiting “because the stock market’s going up.” 
When asked about his disclosures, he added: “I don’t get involved in my personal. 
We have funds that run my money.” 
“I made a lot of money before I became president. 
And they invest my money, and I don’t talk to them, I don’t even speak to them. 
So, I have many people, I don’t know what they call them, closed accounts or something, you put your money in and that’s it. 
I don’t talk to them. 
They’re big institutions, and they run it,” Trump said. 
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577 words analyzed.

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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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