What Trump drives home through ill-considered remarks about Mexican immigrants, former Vietnam POW John McCain and now Fox News host Megyn Kelly is that he’s no plain-spoken candidate of character.
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The magazine’s Gabriel Sherman did not elaborate on the nature of the threats, which he attributed to “one high-level source”.
Donald Trump answers a question during the first Republican presidential debate on Thursday in Cleveland. Kelly asked. And nobody knows politics better than I do.
Well done, Megyn. I’ll be honest – I’m still not entirely sure what to think of Kelly. “Look, I’m a veteran of eight national presidential campaigns”. Republicans shake their heads in dismay and frustration, unable to cope with the reality of what has just happened right in front of their eyes. “I’ve been very nice to you, although I could probably maybe not be based on the way you have treated me”.
It would have made sense for Trump to apologize the in the days following a debate watched by a record 24 million television viewers.
Kelly said on her Fox News show Monday that she wouldn’t respond to Trump’s comments “that attacked me personally”, but did address his request for an apology.
“What Donald Trump said was wrong”. But that didn’t stop Erick Erickson from uninviting Trump from attending a conservative event, RedState Gathering.
But the backlash went both ways.
He and Fox News are friends again. “According to one high-level source, Kelly has told Fox producers that she’s been getting death threats from Trump supporters”, he wrote.
“The kind of rhetoric we have heard of late from Mr. Trump just is not appropriate in a presidential election”, said Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. The Fox executive released a statement later that evening explaining that Trump and the network had cleared the air. “There’s no issues there”, Kelly said, laughing.
Trump, however, was undeterred, falling back on the assertion that he’s not a politician, “I am the opposite” and that, somehow, he’ll find fixes for all our problems.
“We discussed our concerns, and I again expressed my confidence in Megyn Kelly“.
Although I resigned from his campaign effort last week, I remain convinced that Donald Trump – and Donald Trump alone – has the stature, experience and guts to take on the entrenched special interests and save America from further decline under the failed policies of the Bush/Clinton combine. That puts Donald Trump in the lead for the Republican presidential nomination by double digits. He calls me once in a while, but I don’t ever talk to him, because he is a loser.
But Trump continued to attack Kelly on social media and news shows, mocking her and questioning her professionalism. When that questioner is a woman, he steps down from the gutter – or wherever – and tries to bully her into silence, then denies what the world understood him to say.
When Kelly asked the GOP candidate if his temperament towards women – “You’ve called women you don’t like “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals” – is worthy of someone running for president, Trump fired back. “She is a brilliant journalist and I support her 100 percent“, he said.
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“With Hillary Clinton, I said, ‘Be at my wedding, ‘ and she came to my wedding”. The September poll had New York Sen.
