‘He Will Stay On You!’ Megyn Kelly PRAISES Trump for Trashing Her in the Past in Wild NYT Interview

In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times published Saturday, Megyn Kelly praised President Donald Trump as a “fighter” who drags his opponents through the dirt until he’s satisfied with the outcome.

Kelly was on the receiving end of his ire following an infamous August 2015 debate question in which she asked the then-candidate about comments he had made about women.

The SiriusXM host said, in retrospect, she had come to appreciate why he went after her.

At the 2015 debate, Kelly opened with Trump asking him about prior “disparaging” comments she recited from him and linked them to a “war on women.”

“You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals,” she said.

Trump interrupted to state he had only used such language to refer to Rosie O’Donnell.

He and Kelly went back and forth with Trump concluding, “I don’t have time for total political correctness.” Trump hit Kelly on social media later that evening and kept up his attacks for more than a year.

Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro asked Kelly, “You really think it’s fair game that you as a journalist ask a fair question based on things that he said, and he put you through that for a whole year?” Kelly replied:

I’ve been very public about thinking he went too far. That’s how I felt at the time, and if I could go back and undo it, I would. But I have a better perspective on why it happened now. It was actually an important piece of his rise within the Republican Party in the primary, and it just showed people what a fighter he was.

The same guy who got up bloodied in Butler, Pennsylvania, was the guy who was like a dog with a bone with me, who wouldn’t let it go. He’s got this fighter instinct and if you cross him or if you do something he finds unjust, he will stay on you until he’s satisfied the thing’s been resolved to his satisfaction.

Kelly also said in her opinion Trump felt “betrayed” by her debate question as before that moment he viewed her as a media ally.

“And while I had nothing against him, and I wasn’t not on his team prior to that moment, as soon as they throw their hat in the political ring, when you’re a straight news journalist, it becomes somewhat adversarial,” she said of holding Trump’s feet to the fire.

Kelly also told Garcia-Navarro she was done with the corporate media and she endorsed Trump onstage last November because she believed he wanted to protect women.

“I want someone who will close the border, which he has,” Kelly said. “I want someone who will keep boys out of my daughters’ sports, which he has.”