Posted on 01/27/2016 9:18:07 AM PST by Enlightened1
Speaking on Good Morning America and Morning Joe this morning, Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski hinted that other candidates were thinking of dropping out of the upcoming Fox News debate after Trump decided to bail.
He asserted that anchor Megyn Kelly was "obsessed" with his boss, which was one reason why Trump decided not to participate.
"Megyn Kelly is totally obsessed with Mr. Trump," Lewandowski said on Good Morning America. "She's done multiple shows on why he shouldn't be even involved in the race on television. She's completely obsessed with him. It's impossible to have a fair and honest debate."
Lewandowski argued that Fox News was trying to use the event to promote its own employees, not the issues that mattered to voters.
"What Fox wants to do is they want to have 24 million people tune in to watch Donald Trump so that their anchors can have the story about them," he said, pointing out that Trump could see it was a "bad deal" to appear at the debate.
Lewandowski previewed a Trump event in Des Moines, saying he would be raising money for wounded veterans, and said in an interview on Morning Joe that other campaigns had phoned them for details of the event.
"I had a number of calls yesterday with some of the other campaigns who said, hey, can we come and join you in raising money for the wounded warriors, for veterans because, you know, if Fox isn't going to be fair to you, what makes you think they're going to be fair to us," he said.
He called Fox executives "very dishonest" for accusing him of threatening Kelly in phone calls, and accused them of favoring other candidates because they had family members working for them.
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Reagan missed the last debate, just sayin
Think Jerry Lewis telethon./
Cowards run away.
But, dig this: A media organization is really not supposed to act as a house organ for a particular faction of a political party.
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Name one that doesn’t.
If that happens, then Fox News would replace Kelly.
You KNOW, that would happen.
I’ll laugh if Fox ends up with just three US Senators...master debaters every one of them.
Not if Fox News was PLANNING Zingers, and to escort Trump from the Stage.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3389210/posts
Well it would sure be an entertaining slap-down of the establishment-media complex.
According to Greta Van Susteren poll nearly 85% will not watch debate. Ouch!
http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/poll/yes-or-no/
Trump is totally obsessed with Megyn Kelly.
Fixed it
If there is a debate sans Trump, I'm only going to be interested in how many watch it, not what is said in the debate.
If the ratings are seriously low without Trump compared to the ratings with Trump, then he'll both have the last word and will have won the debate without even being there.
Perhaps Megyn should pull a Clint Eastwood and talk to an empty chair. Then again I doubt she has the brains to pull something like that off.
So that makes it acceptable?
Some posters are echoing the same talking points as if handed a list that Trump is afraid of Kelly, which is absurd. Even Geraldo conceded that Trump is not afraid of Kelly.When Paul dropped out of the last debate, was he accused of being afraid of the moderators?
This is big. Why does Republican debates have to put up with crap from leftist biased media? The debate Candy Crowley moderated in 2012 when she interrupted Rommey to defended Obama, the producer should have hauled her off the floor and ended the debate for the violation!
Meghan Kelly is biased, have leftist activists ask questions at a Republican Primary debate is BS! Democrats would NEVER allow a right leaning activist to ask them questions!
Trump’s decision is awesome! FOX wanted to ambush Trump and other more conservative candidates, because yebbie is surging in Ndw Hampshire!!!
You want Jeb!?
After all CLEARLY... MEEEEEEgyn is in charge at Fox.
More desperation from Trump Inc.
Dream on, Donald.
They will spend most of the time asking the other candidates questions about Trump and let them all bash him since he won’t be there to defend themselves.
Has it come to this: They have made the debates into a reality show?
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