Posted on 08/08/2015 7:16:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Organisers of a Republican event withdrew frontrunner Donald Trump's invitation after he suggested that a presidential debate moderator was tough on him because she was menstruating.
The off-handed comment unleashed a new storm of criticism against Trump as he seeks the party's nomination for next year's election and leads in the polls.
The bombastic billionaire came under fire from his party after a particularly crude accusation that Fox News' Megyn Kelly - one of the moderators at Thursday's Republican presidential debate - singled him out with rough treatment.
Trump had already called out the station's moderators for asking 'unfair' questions after Kelly brought up his use of derogatory language towards women in Twitter posts. Kelly asked him if this was befitting a man vying to be the US president.
But he turned up the tone on Friday evening when he told CNN that Kelly 'is just somebody I didn't have a lot of respect for'.
'You can see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever,' he continued.
Those remarks prompted a prominent grassroots Republican event in Atlanta - RedState Gathering - to rescind a speaking invitation for Saturday.
Meanwhile, Trump's campaign told various US media on Saturday that he sacked top political advisor Roger Stone, as the controversy churned on.
'Roger wanted to use the campaign for his own personal publicity ... and Mr Trump wants to keep the focus of the campaign on how to Make America Great Again,' a campaign spokesperson told CNN.
Stone, however, took issue on Twitter with that version of events.
'Sorry realDonaldTrump didn't fire me - I fired Trump. Diasagree (sic) with diversion to food fight with megynkelly away core issue messages,' he wrote.
Carly Fiorina, the only female Republican presidential candidate, tweeted: 'Mr. Trump: There. Is. No. Excuse.'
She later added 'I stand with megynkelly.'
Trump tried late Saturday to backtrack from the comment about Kelly, stating that he was not referring to the body part most people had in mind from his remark on blood.
'Re Megyn Kelly quote: 'you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever' (NOSE). Just got on w/thought,' Trump tweeted.
'So many 'politically correct' fools in our country. We have to all get back to work and stop wasting time and energy on nonsense!' he also tweeted.
Mr. Garrison: ...I’m Sorry Wendy, but I don’t trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die.
Pack of lies!
I am sure “most” people thought he was saying he could see blood coming out of her vagina.
I mean in the context of “i could see she had blood in her eyes”, who wouldn’t think he was talking about being able to see blood coming out of her vagina?
Gotta hand it to those skynews deviants: they can sniff out a menstruation reference a mile away, or even further away than that! Like outerspace perhaps.
Meanwhile, Obama continues his destruction of America.
“If it was Ailes idea to attack Trump instead (which I doubt), that didn’t work out so well and Ailes tends to not make many mistakes.”
Yes, Ailes worked for Reagan. It must disturb him to see how everyone, including rupert, megyn, and trump are violently violating Reagan’s 11th commamdment to not speak ill of fellow republicans.
Unleash the hounds indeed.
Thanks for directing me to that; but I need more than ‘bombast’ from Trump, and certainly more than bombast from someone who ISN’T Trump :-)
I need Trump to become far more substantive on more issues.
He’s got more than a year to go, and I’ll watch.
My best to you,
-JT
Did you notice that Sky News ended every sentence in that story with a PERIOD?
Turmoil. Yeah. Very turmoily. Zzzzzz...
Not only that, Ailes was responsible for Rush’s excellent TV show in the early 90’s.
Lol! I’ve seen you post this on other threads, and I think I’ll never get tired of it.
How does that statement turn into she is menstruating? I never heard that. I think this is what they are really up to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRbtf2UFcmc
I saw that!
Maybe they have blood in their eyes and also squirting out of their wherever. Maybe that is why they are lying scum.
Lol. I saw what you did there.
There’s a picture that speaks a library’s worth of words.
From sky news...fox news sister station....yeah no.
“Reagan was nearly 30 years ago. I seriously doubt he would have spoken any such commandment today.”
The gop-e of Reagan’s day hated him as much as the gop-e of our day hate us, Trump and Cruz.
But Reagan refused to go violently negative on them. It is one of many reasons he was The Landslider.
It’s not like Trump doesn’t have a lot of advisors.
That video explains why GOPe, Obama & MSM are scared of a president Trump!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRbtf2UFcmc
Fox “News” is no better than any other mainstream media network.
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