Donald Trump in trouble over comments about moderator

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I’ve been very nice to you, although I could probably maybe not be, based on the way you have treated me.

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In his post-debate interview about Kelly, Trump told CNN, “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes; blood coming out of her wherever”.

Trump is under fire for criticizing Fox anchor Megyn Kelly during and after a Republican debate on Thursday. The billionaire was disinvited this week from the RedState Gathering, an influential conservative event, amid a backlash that has raised questions about the future of his candidacy.

“This is just another example of weakness through being politically correct“, his campaign said in a statement.

“Do we want to win?” “They face all of us“. “Do we want to insult 53 percent of our voters?” the former Florida governor asked.

“In no way do I advocate, you know, saying mean things about people“, he said. He later issued a statement saying he had misspoken and was referring only to the “hard-to-fathom $500 million in federal funding” for Planned Parenthood.

“When I started this campaign, I was asked on a national television show whether a woman’s hormones prevented her from serving in the Oval Office”, she said.

In a related development, financier Carl Icahn tweeted Friday that he would accept Trump’s offer to be Treasury secretary – assuming Trump becomes president – after turning it down in June.

“I cherish women”, Mr Trump said in a phone interview with the cable network’s State of the Union news programme. “So I thought what he did was awful”, Trump said.

Paul also said he was elected to the Senate as part of the Tea Party movement, which was a response to “fake conservative” and Republicans who were for ObamaCare and the bank bailouts. And other than that, I wish her well. “She’s a very nice person”.

Making the rounds of the Sunday news shows, Trump insisted he said nothing wrong.

“He says something every day”, Rubio said.

“Women are tremendous”, Trump told Stephanopoulos.

An exasperated Mike Huckabee had enough of the seemingly endless Trump questions.

Defending what he said about Kelly, he told “This Week” he had “no apologies, none at all“. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, a presidential candidate who has had a weeks-long feud with Trump that included the real estate mogul giving out Graham’s mobile phone number, said Erickson was “doing the right thing”. In multiple instances, he declined to apologize to Kelly, arguing that he never meant to suggest that she had her menstrual period when she asked him pointed questions at the debate.

He said the other candidates benefited from his presence last Thursday.

The back-and-forth over Stone, coming at the same time as the Kelly controversy, fueled a sense of growing tumult surrounding Trump’s campaign, which recently cut ties with two men accused of writing inflammatory Facebook posts.