What Megyn Kelly has said about United States war with Iran

Kelly said she was glad the Iran war was ending and wished it had never begun.

“I'm happy it's ending. That's my take on this. I wish it had never started”

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Kelly asserts claims that Iran was near a nuclear weapon before the war were false.

“Iran was not close to getting a nuclear weapon. Those are lies”

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Kelly argues Trump, not Netanyahu, bears responsibility for the decision to go to war.

“I do think it's important to remember Trump has agency and Trump is in charge of the U.S. military”

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Kelly believes Trump regrets the Iran war because it is damaging his poll numbers.

“Because he's not dumb, and he knows it's crushing him. It's crushing his numbers”

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Megyn Kelly opposes escalating the Iran bombing campaign or deploying ground troops, calling it a potential political and humanitarian disaster.

“it would just get America even further entrenched in this thing, which I believe would be a political and humanitarian disaster”

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Kelly says she strongly favors ending U.S. involvement in the Iran war.

“I am so in favor of just wrapping it up for so many reasons”

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Kelly argued Trump was somewhat unfairly bashed for saying he doesn't consider Americans' finances in Iran negotiations, though he should be more careful.

“I do think on this particular one, the president's being unfairly bashed”

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Kelly attributes Trump's decision to launch the war to hubris following earlier military successes.

“My own belief, just having watched Trump for many years now— is it was just hubris, Tucker”

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Kelly says she no longer trusts Trump's statements about the war because he has repeatedly declared it over.

“I don't trust a word President Trump says about this anymore. He's told us 31 times that the Iran war is over”

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Kelly calls the Iran war a disaster and urges the administration to exit quickly.

“everyone knows this is a disaster. Please just get out as quickly and as seamlessly as is possible”

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Kelly called claims that the war was needed to stop an imminent Iranian nuclear weapon propaganda, citing U.S. intelligence assessments.

“The intelligence community assessed that Iran was not anywhere near getting a nuclear bomb”

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Kelly argued the ceasefire is not an American victory because Iran now controls the Strait of Hormuz and can charge a toll that did not exist before.

“The end result of this 38 days is the Strait is now controlled by Iran. It wasn't before. It now costs a toll potentially to get through. It didn't before”

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Kelly argues that the people who persuaded Trump to join the Iran war should be publicly identified and held to account.

“As this thing goes south, we need to know exactly who talked him into it and what representations were made to convince the President that this was a good idea”

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Kelly cites Reuters polling that only 7% of Americans would support sending 5,000 to 17,000 ground troops to Iran.

“7% o'r Pobl Arican fydd yn cefnogi hynny”

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