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Title: Trump team says he'll ditch Thursday's GOP debate (afraid to face Megyn Kelly)
Source:
USA Today
URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/ ... thursdays-gop-debate/79371610/
Published: Jan 26, 2016
Author: David Jackson
Post Date: 2016-01-26 19:51:08 by Hondo68
Keywords: None
Views: 22613
Comments: 65
Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at Farmington High School on Jan. 25, 2016, in Farmington, N.H. (Photo: John Minchillo, AP) Protesting "wise guy" comments from Fox News about his criticism of anchor Megyn Kelly, Donald Trump said Tuesday he likely won't participate in Thursday's Republican debate -- and his campaign manager said later the GOP front-runner would in fact skip the event. "Most likely, I'm not going to be doing the debate," Trump told reporters before a rally in Marshalltown, Iowa. Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, later told reporters that the businessman would definitely not participate, and said it is not a matter of negotiation. Trump has threatened a debate boycott all week, describing Kelly as a "lightweight" who is biased against him. Trump's criticism led to pushback from Fox News, including one statement from the network earlier Tuesday that drew the businessman's ire: “We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president — a nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings.” Citing that statement, Trump said that Fox is "playing games" and that he will do an event for wounded warriors instead of Thursday's debate. Trump has attacked Kelly since an Aug. 6 debate in which the Fox anchor asked him about statements demeaning women. Kelly has declined to respond to Trump's attacks, but Fox has defended her and insisted she be part of the debate. Earlier this week, Fox said: "Megyn Kelly has no conflict of interest. Donald Trump is just trying to build up the audience for Thursday's debate, for which we thank him." Poster Comment: There are 7 participants left who can take turns explaining The Donald's problems. That should be fun. Plus the 4 in the kiddie debate. 
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
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Without Trump there would be no debates but only an array of politicians hiding in a cloud of evasive dialogue spiced with occasional wit and trying to pretend there's a real difference among them. Kelly hit Thrump with a question containing unproven presupositions and it pissed Trump off. It's the old, "Have you stopped beating your wife?" trick in which the question is really an accusation. Trump is not very well schooled in the techniques of advocacy or he would have handled it much better. He's a business man and builder, not a lawyer or theologin.
LOL some Aussie on another site has this as his tagline.
#7. To: redleghunter (#6)
There have been too many debates already. By deciding to put Megan Kelly back there after the last fiasco, Fox News was planning a Pearl Harbor. Trump avoided that by refusing to play ball. So now Fox will have an unwatched debate, and the debating seasons is effectively ended. Voting starts shortly in Iowa, and Trump is going to win that. And that will be that. By going after the future President, NR and Fox have damaged their brands to a degree that they will never fully recover. What works against a dependent dwarf does not work against Trump.
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