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

Kelly was invited to the stage in Pittsburgh and defended Trump against recent controversies, including his own repeated promise to be the “protector” of women, and put pressure on his and his own border security case opposition to transgender athletes participate in sports.

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

Trump stood off to the side, grinning and beaming as he listened to the commentator he once called “filthy.”

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

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

Trump largely dismissed Kelly’s question during the debate, but later went straight after her, first overnight on Twitter and later in interviews.

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

Referring to Kelly’s questions during the debate, Trump said: “There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her everywhere.” The comment was widely seen as a sexist reference to menstruation.

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

Kelly left Fox for NBC News. She was taken off air after an outcry when she suggested it was okay for white people to wear blackface on Halloween.

She now hosts a SiriusXM satellite radio show that she built into one of the highest-ranked news podcasts on Chartable.

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

Kelly’s appearance with Trump comes as early voting points to a gender gap that favors Democrat Kamala Harris.

Kelly was critical of some speakers who made rude and racist comments to Trump Madison Square Garden meeting last month. One suggested that Harris, who is vying to become the first woman, Black woman and person of South Asian descent to be elected president, started her career as a prostitute.

The speakers, Kelly said, “took what was a great celebration of Trump, exciting and well attended and extremely enthusiastic, and gave themselves a big black eye.”