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Full statement on Trump declining to participate in Fox News/Google Debate
Fox News ^ | January 27, 2016 | Fox News

Posted on 01/27/2016 6:38:25 AM PST by WhiskeyX

As many of our viewers know, FOX News is hosting a sanctioned debate in Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday night, three days before the first votes of the 2016 election are cast in the Iowa Caucus. Donald Trump is refusing to debate seven of his fellow presidential candidates on stage that night, which is near unprecedented.

We’re not sure how Iowans are going to feel about him walking away from them at the last minute, but it should be clear to the American public by now that this is rooted in one thing – Megyn Kelly, whom he has viciously attacked since August and has now spent four days demanding be removed from the debate stage. Capitulating to politicians’ ultimatums about a debate moderator violates all journalistic standards, as do threats, including the one leveled by Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski toward Megyn Kelly.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bimbo; debates; election2016; foxnetwork; foxnews; iowa; megynkelly; newyork; rogerailes; rupertmurdoch; trump; trumplessdebate
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To: Rock N Jones

“Typical Trump!”

Yep, typical in that he isn’t going to put up with a bunch
of BS from some mouthy broad that gets her backing from
a bunch of swinging penises that are doing what ever it
takes to get in her pants.
She’s petty, she’s a skank and

Everybody wants some:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bZmGtaqP68


41 posted on 01/27/2016 7:25:27 AM PST by Slambat
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To: Netz
FOX News has gone off the deep end, not Trump.

Roger should never have tried to rub Kelly into Trump's face, PERIOD.

42 posted on 01/27/2016 7:26:03 AM PST by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Rock N Jones
Do you think trump ever backed out of a business meeting when he realized the other party was not intending to conduct business but only to personally taunt and try to discredit him?

Trump recognizes the value of his time
The JV team must have nothing better than to go onstage and let FOX and its invited social media agitators ( angry muslima and angry illegal immigrant) goad them into playing “ Punch and Judy”

43 posted on 01/27/2016 7:28:12 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Rock N Jones
Do you think he ever backed out of a business deal because the opposing lawyer was biased?

I'll bet he backed out of a lot of business deals if he figured they weren't good deals.

Letting someone else control the microphone and throw gotcha questions at him is not a good deal.

44 posted on 01/27/2016 7:29:31 AM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: V K Lee

And the left still hates them!

BWA hahaha!


45 posted on 01/27/2016 7:32:12 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: WhiskeyX
Donald Trump is refusing to debate seven of his fellow presidential candidates on stage that night, which is near unprecedented.

What a dumb ass statement. Are you insane or just stupid. Hope nobody explains what is going on to you since you would never understand.

46 posted on 01/27/2016 7:32:47 AM PST by Logical me
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To: silverleaf

Roger Ailes wrote the mocking message that triggered Trump to cancel.


47 posted on 01/27/2016 7:36:36 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: houeto

Anybody want to bet on which of the remaining “candidates” suck up to Kelly over this?


48 posted on 01/27/2016 7:37:34 AM PST by anoldafvet (they're not immigrants, they're criminal aliens)
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To: WhiskeyX

Someone posted that Ailes is battling health issues
Dementia?


49 posted on 01/27/2016 7:38:04 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: anoldafvet

Think Megyn will send a secret message to Jeb that she won’t be wearing panties?


50 posted on 01/27/2016 7:39:49 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf

Ailes WAS a friend of Trump’s.


51 posted on 01/27/2016 7:39:53 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

We have had enough debates for now. Trump is smart not to walk into an ambush a second time. If they trash him when he isn’t there, it will reinforce his decision to the world.


52 posted on 01/27/2016 7:43:02 AM PST by Bookwoman (No more Bushes or Clintons or RINOs"...and I am unanimous in this...")
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To: Logical me

“What a dumb ass statement. Are you insane or just stupid.”

Who? WhiskeyX, Fox News or Megyn Kelly?

My opinion “X” is cool.


53 posted on 01/27/2016 7:44:54 AM PST by Slambat
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To: WhiskeyX

It seems that bromance is in the past

It also seems like Trump is genuinely perplexed by the standards disintegration of the organization.


54 posted on 01/27/2016 7:46:52 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: All

I guess you could say that this will be the best chance for

OL COCKEYED JUNIOR(Jeb) to shine.

I bet he gets out there and blows it.


55 posted on 01/27/2016 7:47:22 AM PST by Slambat
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To: Netz

“Google and Fox announced Tuesday afternoon that an anti-Trump Muslim advocate, Nabela Noor, would be allowed to play a role in the debate. She was apparently chosen by Youtube, with help from the RNC and Fox. African American, Mark Watson, and Latino, Dulce Candy will also join the moderators in the debate to ask the candidates a question on an issue that matters to them and their communities.”

http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh265.htm

Trump did the right thing to avoid the Fox ambush set-up.


56 posted on 01/27/2016 7:53:51 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: silverleaf

“It also seems like Trump is genuinely perplexed by the standards disintegration of the organization.”

It appears as though Rupert Murdoch gave Roger Ailes the go ahead to put Aile’s old friend in his place, and Ailes decided his memo was the way to do it. Trump sees the message and decides it is time to call the bluff and suck the oxygen out of the debate while keeping his campaign in the forefront of the public’s attention.
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57 posted on 01/27/2016 7:53:59 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: House Atreides

Let me see if I’ve got this straight.

We’ve been bitching about the MSM for years - decades even - and along comes someone who’s ripping off their mask, exposing them, in the middle of an election cycle no less, when every other candidate is jumping through their hoops, and you call him a “Coward”?

Dude, you are eff’d up.

This is the ballsiest thing I’ve ever seen.


58 posted on 01/27/2016 7:56:06 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Rock N Jones
I want to hear what he says,

Bullshit, your small mind has been closed long ago.

In "The Art of the Deal" Trump knows what every good deal maker knows, there is no shame in walking away from a bad deal. FOX can have mygun kelly or Trump, not both.

59 posted on 01/27/2016 7:56:41 AM PST by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: KeyLargo

I wonder if the anti Trump muslim will be uninvited?


60 posted on 01/27/2016 7:58:21 AM PST by monkeywrench (Deut. 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark)
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