Megyn Kelly Dumps On Pope Francis Shortly After His Death

Right-wing commentator Megyn Kelly criticized Pope Francis for one of the crusades of his papacy ― mercy for the world’s migrants ― just hours after his death Monday at age 88. (Watch the video below.)

On “The Megyn Kelly Show” she brought up his rebuttals of President Donald Trump’s anti-migrant missions during both terms. The pope once said something to the effect that building walls instead of bridges was not Christian and that mass deportations damage peoples’ dignity and make them vulnerable, she recalled. He also called mass deportation a “disgrace.”

Kelly accused the Catholic Church of transporting and finding housing for migrants “irrespective of the fact that they’re here illegally,” Kelly said. “And Pope Francis didn’t have to deal with that.”

“It’s caused a lot of us in the Catholic Church to wonder what exactly we’re donating toward on Sunday, it really does,” she added.

The former Fox News host went directly after the late church leader for “this tug-of-war going on between the pope’s messaging and what he wanted us to believe were deep Catholic teachings, and what we understand as Americans who are watching our citizens murdered in the streets by these people to be true.”

After her apparent revisiting of a debunked notion that migrants are responsible for a crime wave, she voiced her dismay at the pope’s attitude toward the president.

“You try to understand how he could so misunderstand” Trump and the reason why he is “so devoted to getting rid of these people who Pope Francis just looked at as vulnerable and defenseless.”

“Well you know who is vulnerable and defenseless?” Kelly asked rhetorically. “Laken Riley. … I wish I could have talked to the pontiff about it.”

Riley was murdered by a man who entered the country illegally, and the case became a focal point used by conservatives to promote widespread deportations.

Kelly called the late pontiff an “honorable man” but his immigration policies clearly rankled her.

Now Trump is waging war against the courts and journalists for not supporting his claims about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported to a dangerous El Salvador prison on the thin suspicion that he is a gang member despite a court order.

Oddly, Trump said Monday he agreed with the pope’s plea of tolerance for migrants but did not elaborate.

Fast-forward to 4:20 for Kelly’s comments on the pope’s migrant stance.