Fox News host Brian Kilmeade is facing intensifying criticism after apologizing Sunday for suggesting last week that people living with homelessness and mental illness should be executed. His viral comments were immediately met with backlash online including from California Govenor Gavin Newsom who slapped him with an insult that made MAGA’s head spin.

Kilmeade’s apology itself has drawn backlash, with critics calling it hollow and insufficient, and the episode has fueled a broader fight in Washington over toxic rhetoric and accountability in media.

The controversy began Wednesday on Fox & Friends when Kilmeade, during a discussion of the fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, responded to a colleague’s comments about jail or treatment for unhoused peo

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