In the days leading up to that forum, Trump tweeted, “Based on Megyn Kelly’s conflict of interest and bias she should not be allowed to be a moderator”.
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Kelly soon got to the gist of her inquiry, bringing up recent controversy stemming from remarks he reportedly made during an off-the-record discussion with the editorial board of the New York Times. Kelly was one of the first public figures caught in the middle of one of Trump’s withering attacks on media.
At the very least, the Fox moderators won’t have to prepare one set of questions for if Trump showed up and another for if he didn’t, as they did in Iowa.
Kelly then hit Trump again, saying that he countersued the lead plaintiff in the class action, and read a damaging comment from the court of appeals in the case: “The plaintiffs against you are like the Madoff victims …”
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Kelly’s effect on Trump did not go unnoticed, either. Thursday evening’s debate was the first match-up between Kelly and the candidate in seven months.
“I have decided not to attend the Fox News GOP Presidential Debate tomorrow night in Detroit”.
“Great to have you here”, she said.
“We will let the contrasts and the conversations between candidates go”, Baier said.
Kelly’s questioning angered Trump during the first GOP debate last August, most prominently when he was confronted with some of his past comments about women.
On Tuesday, Trump and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton took big steps toward securing their parties’ nominations with a series of state-by-state victories.
Shortly afterwards, Kelly aggressively question Trump about the Trump University lawsuit, in which former students are suing Trump for their money back after the Better Business Bureau gave Trump University a D- rating.
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Love him or loathe him, Trump has taught the poohbahs of the Republican Party what a power grab really is – and he’s done it by winning over large swaths of the GOP’s own core supporters far from Washington. I find him a very fascinating person to cover’. After Trump skipped that debate, he lost the Iowa caucuses to Ted Cruz.
