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.
Exactly!
The Trumpster is Back!!!!
WOOOHOOO!!!
I'm not a Trump fan but the GOPe disgusts me as much as the democrats.
Yes it is manufactured outrage. The establishment, the Left are all jumping up, and down on Trump’s head now trying to pile drive him deep into the mud.
He is just going to get stronger with those that like him.
Go Cruz.
Hysteria \Hys*te"ri*a\, n. [NL.: cf. F. hyst['e]rie. See Hysteric.] (Med.) A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits. [1913 Webster] Note: The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing, and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the throat. The affection presents the most varied symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment alone. Hysteric
They cannot contol him so they have to destroy him.
He “suggested”, oh really?
I hope he never winks at a Woman, they’ll be crying Rape.
A Lie travels half way around the world before the Truth can get its pants on.
I remember when these same creatures called Pat Buchanan the next Hitler.
That worked.
This isn’t going to.
The clip is on the internet, and folks will listen themselves and see the media for just what it is.
All the media is doing is confirming everyone’s opinion of it.
Meanwhile, Obama continues his destruction of America.
Isn’t sky news and fox affiliated with each other?
Wait, I thought he was a plant by the democrat party? Why is everyone trying to shut him down? Maybe he’s the real deal!
The concern trolls are very concerned...
Sky News = Rupert Murdock run by some Euro wuss rather than a Roger Ailes who told Rupe to go pound sand when he wanted them to downplay Trump. 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.
One person is fired or quits, and this means the campaign is in turmoil? Give me a break. It happens all the time in campaigns.
“Newsroom! Run story A-3. Put Trump as the subject. Fill.”
A disturbing thing about Trump is that he had a sleazeball like Stone in charge to begin with.
Does a top political adviser have access to Trump’s twitter account? Just wondering, considering some of the tweets have come out which I questioned came from Trump himself. Like for instance, after the debate, Trump was on Hannity’s show at midnight. He then had to fly home to NY - another hour or so - the first tweet came out around 3 a.m. about MK. He was on Fox and Friends by phone around 6 a.m. the next morning. Rush also made a comment on Friday about this - so, maybe it was this Roger guy doing it and the real reason he was fired. I dunno - just speculating.
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