Donald Trump disinvited from RedState Gathering after CNN interview
Kelly has been invited in Trump’s place to speak on Saturday night.
But on Friday evening he lashed out at Fox News host Ms Kelly, who questioned him at the Ohio forum on his comments calling certain women “fat pigs”, “dogs”, “slobs” and “disgusting animals”.
Trump responded in characteristic fashion – with an escalated attack against his perceived rival, and with a particularly crude reference to one of the debate co-moderators, Megyn Kelly. “The questions to me were not nice”, Trump said. I didn’t think they were appropriate.
“Megyn Kelly was a colleague of mine for six and a half years when I was at Fox”.
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“And honestly Megyn, if you don’t like it, I’m sorry”, he said.
“Going from secretary to CEO is a very creatable story that makes you think this, too, is the ‘American Dream, ‘” Conway said.
The RedState Gathering, meanwhile, will go on without Trump. “No candidate should do something like that, I’m embarrassed to even talk about what he’s implying”. Decency is one of those lines. Erickson told Costa that Lewandowski kept focusing on the “blood in her eyes” comment and not the second half of the quote, despite repeated questioning, and then tried to characterize it as Trump misspeaking. “Blood coming out of her wherever”.
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It was not the “blood coming out of her eyes” part that was the problem.
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Fox News moderator Kelly asked Trump about his use of such language and whether it reflected the “temperament of a man we should elect as president”.
“I have rescinded my invitation to Mr. Trump”, tweeted Erickson, an influential conservative activist and blogger.
Kim Kataguiri and Fabio Ostermann founded the Free Brazil Movement in November 2014.
Nevertheless, he said, while Trump’s bluntness resonates with many, including himself, “to a degree”, there are some “lines of decency” a presidential candidate should not cross. In my case, Donald drove me over the edge with his war hero comments, probably because of my family history and the way that just hit a nerve for me. It is unfortunate to have to disinvite him. “It just was wrong”, Erickson continued.
Erickson told reporters he wasn’t comfortable with inviting Trump to the RedState gathering’s stage with his wife and daughter in the crowd, Politico reports.
He said Mr Trump’s comment about the journalist was “a bridge too far”.
In 2012, Trump wrote on Twitter of singer Bette Midler: “But whenever she sees me, she kisses my ass”.
Erickson wasn’t the only conservative bashing Trump.
For about an hour after the first debate, the big story was Fiorina winning the undercard session.
Mr Trump also took credit for the fact that the debate was a ratings smash, pulling in a record 24 million viewers, and cited news articles that said he was the victor. Republicans are steeling themselves for a long period of deep uncertainty following a raucous first debate of the 2016 campaign for president, with no signs this past week’s Fox News face-off will winnow their wide-open field of White House hopefuls anytime soon.