Megyn Kelly speculates Nick Reiner could claim

Megyn Kelly is predicting Nick Reiner’s potential protection strategy after the 32-year-old was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree homicide for the slaying of his dad and mom, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.

The prolific director and his spouse have been found with their throats slit by their daughter, Romy, on Sunday, December 14. Nick, who has a protracted documented historical past of substance abuse and psychological health points, was arrested shortly after the killings.

The former Fox News anchor mentioned his potential protection methods on her Sirius XM present, The Megyn Kelly Show, suggesting that Nick’s authorized team could attempt a Menendez-style protection and claim that the Hollywood nepo child was abused by his father before allegedly taking his dad and mom’ lives.

The conservative pundit instructed that Nick could attempt to claim self-defense, equally to Erik and Lyle Menendez, who shot and killed their dad and mom Jose and Kitty in 1989. The brothers claimed that their father was bodily and sexually abusive and that their mom knew about the alleged abuse.

Nick, son of the beloved director he’s accused of murdering, had a contentious relationship along with his dad and mom, which was well-documented. The father-son duo even collaborated on the 2016 semi-autobiographical movie Being Charlie, which is loosely based on the accused killer’s past struggles with dependancy and psychological sickness, which affected his relationship along with his household.

“Here’s what I think: and this is out of left field prediction,” Megyn started. “And it is just because the Menendez case is on my thoughts, because that’s also California, this is what triggered it.” She clarified, “In no way am I impugning Rob Reiner, nor do I believe there’s anything untoward. I think he seems, by all accounts, a loving father and an appropriate father.”

She referenced a quote given to the Daily Mail by somebody who supposedly labored on Being Charlie, who “found the dynamic between Rob and his son Nick troubling.” The actor, whose scene was lower from the movie, claimed that Rob and Nick have been preventing and arguing while on set.

The 55-year-old read the quote aloud, “They were kissing each other on the lips, which was weird. They were bickering, they were going off on each other on set, it wasn’t comfortable. There was definitely hostility there.”

She continued, “So, my question is, is there a likelihood Nick Reiner pulls a card from the Menendez defense?”

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Megyn went on to say, “We’re in California, it’s going to be a California jury, and [Nick] says, ‘He was molesting me my whole life. That’s why I was so messed up, from the time I was 10. That’s why I got hooked on drugs.’ There’s no way of disproving that, and he plays the sympathy card with a California jury about why, from a very young age, he was all messed up.”

It is value mentioning that there is no such thing as a proof that the relationship between Nick and his father was something however acceptable, and there was no proof of abuse.

Despite her hypothesis, contributor Matt Murphy was fast to point out that the jury in the end rejected the Menendez brothers’ protection, they usually have been convicted of killing their dad and mom in chilly blood.

“There is a huge difference…between somebody who is suffering from organic mental illness, where, for lack of a better term, it’s really not their fault, even if they are self-medicating with drugs, and the spoiled, kind of entitled, young rich guy who has a problem with daddy,” he said, including that self-defense, in Nick’s case, is “not going to fly.”

Nick is at present detained on expenses of first-degree homicide with particular circumstances after being accused of stabbing his dad and mom to demise.