Megyn Kelly delivers the closing message on behalf of Trump

Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly gave a fiery speech in support Donald Trump during an event billed as his “final message” Monday night, a full-circle moment for the former president and former Fox News star bitterly argued during Trump's 2016 campaign.

Kelly was invited to the stage in Pittsburgh and defended Trump against recent controversies, including his repeated promise He wanted to be the “protector” of women and pushed for border security and his own Resistance to transgender athletes Participation in sports.

“He was mocked by the left when he said he would be a protector of women,” Kelly said. “He will be a protector of women and that is why I vote for him. He will close the border and keep boys out of women’s sports where they don’t belong.”

Trump stood by, grinning and beaming, listening to the commentator he once called “evil.”

She then posted a selfie with the former president on X, captioned in part, “God bless him.” Go and vote for him!”

Kelly was a popular Fox News host in 2016 when she asked Trump during the first debate of the Republican primary whether he had the temperament to be president.

Trump largely dismissed Kelly's question in the debate but later attacked her directly, first overnight on Twitter and later in interviews.

“She’s not very tough and she’s not very sharp,” Trump said in a telephone interview with CNN. “I don’t respect her as a journalist.”

Regarding Kelly's questions during the debate, Trump said, “Blood was coming out of her eyes, blood was coming out of her everywhere.” The comment was widely viewed as a sexist reference to menstruation.

Trump later boycotted another debate on Fox because Kelly was one of the moderators.

Kelly left Fox and moved to NBC News. She was removed from the show after an uproar broke out when she suggested it was okay for white people to wear blackface on Halloween.

She now hosts a SiriusXM satellite radio show, which she has integrated into one of Chartable's highest-rated news podcasts.

“All this nonsense between us,” Kelly said last year“is under the bridge.”

Kelly's appearance with Trump comes as early voting suggests a gender divide in favor of Democrat Kamala Harris.

Kelly criticized some of the speakers who made crude and racist comments at Trump Rally at Madison Square Garden last month. One suggested that Harris, who is vying to be the first woman, Black woman and person of South Asian descent, elected president, began her career as a prostitute.

The speakers, Kelly said, “took the incredible celebration of Trump, which was exciting, well-attended and extremely enthusiastic, and gave themselves a major black eye.”