On launching his campaign for the US Republican presidential nomination Trump managed to upset an entire nation of Mexicans. In conversations with RedState attendees here in Atlanta on Friday, several expressed anger over Fox News’ questioning of Trump, and specifically anger at Kelly.
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He continued his attack on CNN on Friday night, saying Ms Kelly was “a lightweight” and that he “couldn’t care less about her“, before making the comment about blood.
UPDATE 2:13 p.m. EDT: Donald Trump fired longtime adviser Roger Stone by email Friday, the Washington Post reported.
Conservative group RedState said Mr Trump was implying she was hormonal. “The biggest loser in the debate was Megyn Kelly”, Trump tweeted.
Trump would stay on the campaign trail and I would continue covering his activities as the current frontrunner in the field. To get them to do his bidding, he said.
Not wanting to give him that chance was Dulcy Forte, 68, of Austin, Texas, already turned off by Trump’s suggestion that he might not support the eventual GOP nominee – if it’s not him.
Red State Gathering organizer Erick Erickson uninvited Trump after the presidential candidate made comments about “blood coming out of [Kelly’s] wherever” after the GOP debate. It just was wrong.
During the debate, Kelly posed a question confronting Trump’s history of sexist slurs, to which he responded political correctness was the country’s “issue”, and he “frankly” doesn’t have time for it. “Do we want to alienate 53 percent of all voters?”
Trump’s comments didn’t sit well with RedState.com editor-in-chief Erick Erickson.
Numbers were also huge for the second-tier debate which took place at 5pm and featured the seven low-polling candidates who failed to make the cut for the prime time event.
Watch footage from the interview, as posted online on Friday, below.
Donald Trump has unloaded on Fox News journalist Megyn Kelly.
Trump has also said the same of men.
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Trump, who was leading in polls going into the debate, thought Kelly was unfair in asking him about his previous comments on women.
When doing so, he has repeatedly targeted women and their physical appearance. But both “McCarthyism” and “Trumpism” – yes, that’s a word, defined recently by former Texas governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry as “a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued” – have a lot to do with “decency”. You once told a contestant on “Celebrity Apprentice” it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. “She talks like a truck driver”, he said in 2006 during an interview with “Entertainment Tonight“.
Trump commented that he had only used such language when referring to Rosie O’Donnell, the US comedian.
Trump then attempted to clarify the remark on Twitter.
“I stand with @megynkelly“, she tweeted. And honestly, Megyn, if you don’t like it, I’m sorry.
And to former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank in 2011: “Barney Frank looked disgusting – nipples protruding – in his blue shirt before Congress. Very very disrespectful”.
Speaking to CNN after the debate, Trump joked Megyn Kelly “had blood coming out of wherever”.
“That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees”, Trump said in response.
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“You can’t out trump Donald Trump. That’s to be expected“. A seasoned pol would say eating too much ice cream or something.
