Eliza Collins

USA TODAY

Megyn Kelly accused President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign social media director of inciting nastiness and anger online.

Kelly — who has been protected by armed guards for over a year because of threats made to her — said that the people who are inciting hatred online are being stirred up by Dan Scavino.

“The vast majority of Donald Trump supporters are not at all this way,” Kelly said at an event in Washington, D.C., Monday night, according to The Guardian. “It’s that far corner of the Internet that really enjoys nastiness and threats and unfortunately there is a man who works for Donald Trump whose job it is to stir these people up and that man needs to stop doing that. His name is Dan Scavino.”

Scavino is Trump’s director of social media and a senior adviser to the president-elect. He started out as a golf caddy for Trump in the 1990s and has worked his way up.

Kelly became Trump’s target back in August 2015 after she asked about the New York businessman's treatment of women. Trump exploded and his attacks aimed at Kelly continued until April when the two met for a meeting at Trump Tower. However, she is still often a punching bag for Trump’s supporters

“I’ve been under armed guard for 16 months, and my children have been under armed guard, and it’s not an appropriate price to pay for hard-hitting journalism,” Kelly said Monday, The Guardian reported.

Scavino has focused his attentions on Kelly. After Kelly and Trump surrogate Newt Gingrich got into it during a Fox segment in October, Scavino tweeted out what seemed to be a threat against Kelly.

The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.