Donald Trump wants apology from Megyn Kelly
Donald Trump is showing no signs of curbing his battle with a Fox News television host, the Republican Party establishment and several presidential primary rivals who are accusing him of disrespecting women.
It started with a few tense exchanges during the debate between Trump and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.
A Fox spokeswoman said Kelly and her boss, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, have no comment on Trump’s “blood” remarks.
On Sunday, Trump said.as his campaign had in a statement Saturday, that “only a deviant” would suggest that his comment referred to menstruation. “I said blood was coming out of her… and I didn’t even finish it”.
Recalling the exchange on ABC’s “This Week”, Trump said the question was “very, very nasty” but he appeared to take comfort in the audience’s reaction to his retort.
“It’s all entertainment. I think he’s having the time of his life, being up on that stage, saying whatever he wants to say”, the Democratic presidential frontrunner said.
“Jeb Bush comes up and he says, I don’t like Donald Trump’s tone”.
He continued to insist Monday that anyone who assumed he was linking Kelly’s debate questions to her menstrual period to be sick and said any assertion like that would be “inappropriate”.
“Sometimes you may feel the question is inappropriate, but I don’t think it is correct to react in that manner”.
On Monday, Donald Trump blasted Megyn Kelly on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe“.
The controversy was sparked on Thursday in the heat of the debate when Ms. Kelly asked Mr. Trump, “You’ve called women fat pigs, dogs, slobs, disgusting animals”.
Regarding his differences with Kelly, he said, “She should really be apologizing to me, to tell the truth”. I mean I knew him, and I happened to be planning to be in Florida and I thought it would be fun to go to his wedding because it’s always entertaining.
Kelly had questioned Trump’s history of insults directed at women and whether that kind of language would perpetuate the idea of a Republican “war on women”.
In his multiple interviews on the Sunday talk shows, Trump also took aim at Bush, who had himself been in hot water over a comment on funding for women’s health.
But he was back Sunday, splashed across the weekend news shows, dismissing the latest firestorm to consume his campaign and explaining how he cherishes women and would be their strongest advocate if elected. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, was successful in doing when she visited the state fair during her election campaign last year, he said.