“I don’t think Donald Trump is a rapist or a sexual assaulter. I do think he’s taken inappropriate liberties with women and gotten handsy with them in a way he’s owned himself okay? — years ago when he was a celebrity and it is what it is that’s the past. But it’s just about so much more than that,” Kelly said on the New York Times podcast The Interview.

The SiriusXM host of the Megyn Kelly Show pointed to Trump’s actions taken to address the border crisis, men in women’s sports, and diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

“We are talking about how many people are dying at the southern border because of the invasion that we’ve suffered under Joe Biden. We’re talking about Laken Riley, whose killer was let in under Biden. We put him on a taxpayer flight down to Georgia where he murdered her. I don’t give a s*** about Trump getting handsy with somebody 20 years ago,” Kelly said. “I want someone who will close the border, which he has. I want someone who will keep boys out of my daughter’s sports, which he has. I want someone who will stand up to the insane DEI policies so that white kids will stop hearing in school that they’re born with some original sin from which they cannot recover, which he has.”

Trump signed three executive orders during his first days in office that effectively wrought about the end of DEI. First, he ordered all DEI employees to be placed on administrative leave. Then, with another executive order, he gave all DEI offices in the federal government 60 days to close down. Finally, he reinstated merit-based opportunities by repealing several orders from the president’s past, one as far back as 1965 under Lyndon B. Johnson. The president also signed another order to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports, which the NCAA is implementing.

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As of February, there have been just over 8,300 encounters with migrants at the southwest border since the start of the year. This follows three years that saw upwards of 150,000 attempted crossings on a monthly basis. According to border czar Tom Homan, the stark change happened during the first two days of the second Trump administration when only 766 apprehensions were reported on the southwest border. 

Kelly acknowledged that it can be hard for victims of sexual harassment to come forward, as it was for her when she went public with her allegations. While Kelly continued to work for Fox News afterward, Ailes was fired and died 10 months later after a fall in his home.