Megyn Kelly has no patience for Donald Trump's flip-flop on Hillary Clinton


Megyn Kelly was not letting Team Trump off the hook on Tuesday night after the president-elect and his surrogates spent the day backing off their promises to "lock up" Hillary Clinton. The demand, which had long been stoked by the Trump campaign on the election trail, was echoed in Trump's vow to put Clinton behind bars if he was elected. On Tuesday, Trump and his team cooled those promises, claiming Clinton had already been through enough.
Sparring with Kelly on the matter was Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), who claimed the "lock her up" chant had been specifically about Clinton's emails, and that it was time to move on from the issue. Kelly pointed out that Duffy himself had encouraged a crowd chanting "lock her up" to "elect Donald Trump to do that."
"And now it's like, for the good of the country, we have to move forward," Kelly said to Duffy. "I mean, do you understand how people watch this and they're like, 'lying politicians … just say anything to get elected. They think we're chumps who are going to believe them then and now we're supposed to believe them again now,' even though the two messages appear to be diametrically opposed?" Watch the two go toe-to-toe below. Jeva Lange
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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.
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