Megyn Kelly recently criticized her former Fox News colleague Mark Levin after he labeled Jack Posobiec, a well-known figure among MAGA supporters, as a ‘crackpot.’ Levin’s comment, delivered in a brief post on platform X, targeted Posobiec for displaying a rosary at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest last Friday. Kelly, who shared the stage with Posobiec during the event, was quick to defend him. She expressed her thoughts on X, stating, “I’m off to pray the beautiful rosary that @JackPosobiec gave me, just like many Christians do. It doesn’t make us ‘crackpots,’ regardless of what some angry, anti-Christian commentator on weekend Fox might say. It’s unfortunate he never made it to prime time.”

Levin, the 68-year-old host of “Life, Liberty & Levin” on Fox’s weekend lineup, later responded on X. He announced plans to address the issue further on his radio show, remarking, “It’s challenging to keep pace with the Woke Reich extremists and groyper-bigots like Megyn Kelly on social media.” Levin, who is Jewish, agreed with a post labeling Kelly as an opportunist and not truly conservative, further suggesting that she “needs a psychiatrist.” He also criticized Posobiec, accusing him of having a history of aligning with “Woke Reichism.”

In a follow-up post, Levin shared a clip featuring fitness podcaster Myron Gaines, who was recorded making antisemitic remarks to a Jewish woman outside the Phoenix event. Gaines and Posobiec had been photographed together at the gathering. Levin commented, “Here’s the company Jack Posobiec keeps,” emphasizing that Posobiec’s association with such individuals is why he faces criticism, not his faith. Levin added that Posobiec hasn’t distanced himself from Gaines, and Kelly’s defense of Posobiec only aligns her with controversial figures like Candace Owens. “These are very sinister grifters,” Levin warned his audience.

The exchange was the latest instance of infighting from major conservatives following a chaotic four days of AmericaFest,where featured speakers like Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, and Kelly openly took shots at each other on-stage. On day one, Shapiro, 41, kicked things off by warning that ‘the conservative movement is in serious danger’ because of ‘grifters’ and conservative ‘charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracist and dishonesty’. He bashed figures like Carlson and Stephen Bannon for not fully disavowing Candace Owens’ anti-Israel rhetoric. ‘The same holds true of Megyn Kelly, a person I consider a friend,’ Shapiro said. Both Carlson and Kelly responded with ire, with Kelly initially writing on X: ‘Only cowards take to the national stage or X to attack their “friends” without so much as a phone call to discuss it.’

‘I don’t think we are friends anymore,’ Kelly said about her relationship with Shapiro, during an on-stage conversation with Posobiec on Friday. ‘I’ve been a very good friend to Ben. Nobody knew who the heck Ben Shapiro was when I started putting him on my shows on the Fox News Channel. And I helped make him a star.’ In an interview with Vanity Fair earlier this week, Kelly said Shapiro and other pro-Israel personalities like CBS boss Bari Weiss were alienating conservatives with their attempts to clamp down on specific types of rhetoric.

‘Why would you divide the American conservative movement – which was gelling, which was becoming much more cohesive for a moment after Charlie died – over Israel?’ she asked, noting that Shapiro is ‘Israel first’. ‘I never posted the black square and I never raised my fist at a restaurant,’ Kelly said of her refusal to play ball, referring to signs of solidarity seen during Black Lives Matter protests that took place after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Kelly worked at Fox News as a host until 2017, before signing on with NBC. She now hosts a popular SiriusXM show as an independent journalist.