The Megyn Kelly Show
George Floyd Riots Damage Persists, DEI Jobs Disappearing, and Where are Epstein Files, with Heather Mac Donald and Alan Dershowitz | Ep. 1082
Wed, 28 May 2025
Megyn Kelly begins the show by reflecting on the five-year anniversary of the 2020 BLM riots in the wake of George Floyd’s death, the overwhelming damage and violence that erupted, the false narratives that persist today, and more. Then Heather Mac Donald, author of "When Race Trumps Merit," joins to discuss the cultural and political fallout from the BLM protests, the media’s role in fueling destructive lies about law enforcement, the way DEI jobs are disappearing from corporate America, how the DEI agenda was driven by virtue signaling, the way DEI persists at elite higher education institutions, and more. Then Alan Dershowitz, author of "The Preventive State," joins to discuss the institutionalized antisemitism of Harvard, the decline of meritocracy in favor of DEI ideology, how DEI was elevated to the highest levels with Claudine Gay as president, Trump’s fight with leftist state governments and elite law firms, Dershowitz’s personal experience with backlash in his legal career, why Trump’s initiatives are likely to be upheld, the death of Virginia Giuffre, what he says were her false accusations against him, his push for full transparency in the release of Epstein files, why he thinks powerful people are still being protected, and more. Mac Donald- https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-restoring-meritocracy-executive-order-disparate-impact-theory-civil-rightsDershowitz- https://www.amazon.com/Preventive-State-Preempting-Cataclysmic-Preserving/dp/1641774401 Birch Gold: Text MK to 989898 and get your free info kit on goldMasa Chips: Get 25% off your first order | Use code MK at https://MASAChips.com/MKTax Network USA: Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit https://TNUSA.com/MEGYN to speak with a strategist for FREE todayFYSI: https://FYSI.com/Megyn or call 800-877-4000Everglades Foundation: Learn more about President Trump’s Everglades support project at https://www.EvergladesFoundation.orgFollow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow
Chapter 1: What happened during the George Floyd riots?
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. It may be hard to believe, but it has now been five years since the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. The protests caused weeks of unrest and destruction in cities across the country in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
A report by the Major Cities Chiefs Association documenting 2,385 looting incidents, 625 acts of arson, including 97 police cars burned, 2,037 police officers injured from May 25th to July 31st of 2020. David Dorn, a 77-year-old former police captain, was shot and killed during a burglary of his pawn shop in St.
Louis during the riots, which were, of course, infamously described by CNN as mostly peaceful. According to the New York Post, insurance companies made between $1 and $2 billion worth of payouts to cover the damages around the country from the week of May 26th to June 1st, 2020.
It started with the Memorial Day death of George Floyd, who died during an arrest by Minneapolis police officers, where video showed Officer Derek Chauvin with what appeared to be his knee on Floyd's neck as he shouted for help. Officer Chauvin is now in prison after being convicted of second degree murder, later pleading guilty to violating Floyd's civil rights.
Protests over Floyd's death quickly erupted in Minneapolis and soon after spiraled out of control. With the city overwhelmed with incidents of looting and destruction and a governor who did next to nothing. His name was Tim Walls. A report by the city finding the riots caused 133 structure fires, $500 million in damage. Again, just from May 25th to June 3rd of 2020. Here's some of it.
Hands up, don't shoot.
99-01, 99-01 emergency. We got individuals breaching the gate at the 3rd Precinct. We also got people trying to breach the front doors.
We're about to breach the back gate. We're taking heavy rocks.
Heavy rocks. Airing information citywide, the 3rd Precinct has been compromised.
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Chapter 2: How did the media misrepresent the situation?
We have a president that is screaming and having tantrums right now because we have an administration that reflects the city of Chicago, but he would much rather have administrations that reflect the country club.
So that man says that he's got a 6% approval rating, just FYI, 6% lower than Blagojevich did when he was going to jail. Go ahead, Heather.
Well, I hope he gets voted out. You know, I'm enough of a pessimist, Megan, that I'm never going to really celebrate until I actually see the results. But that's just hilarious. I hadn't heard that clip. You know, Johnson was the one that again, the long arm of the George Floyd insanity.
Chicago still has these marauding youth mobs that come to the Magnificent Mile and break everything and steal everything in sight. And every time they come, Brandon Johnson says, oh, these poor youth, we shouldn't arrest them because they're just victims of lack of opportunity and we need to understand our youth.
This idea that poverty, first of all, let me put poverty in like six layers of scare quotes because it is a preposterous idea. that in the United States, especially with these kids, you show me a single marauding, looting kid who does not have a smartphone and I'll eat it. is the best friend of the police. Why?
Because these kids that are committing the lootings, that are committing the shootings, they all have smartphones and they're throwing their gang signs on WhatsApp and Instagram and showing off their guns and their cash. Any kid that has a smartphone is not a poor child. And by definition, anybody living in America is not poor.
You have clean water, electricity, as Heritage Foundation for Robert Rector periodically shows up, shows the, you know, 100% practically of so-called poor people that the government categorizes as such have cable TV, they have air conditioning. So it's all fraud, but... Johnson says, oh, it's because they're poor. That's absurd.
It has nothing to do with that, but that type of excuse making and refusal to hold people to a single standard, but instead they have racial standards of behavior is what has gotten us into this mess. The same ideas that drive the George Floyd long arm of the cold riot. has also destroyed school discipline.
When you had the Biden and Obama administrations suing schools if they had disparate rates of school discipline for blacks and whites on the assumption, these lawsuits were that teachers are somehow racist. Teachers, which is the most left-wing profession in the country, teacher ed schools is two years of long marination in critical race theory and white privilege theory.
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