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Trump Will “Definitely Not” Participate in Fox News Debate
Donald Trump will not attend the next Republican debate, the presidential candidate’s campaign manager said just minutes after Trump said he “probably” won’t show up.
“I’m going to be making a decision with Fox, but I probably won’t bother doing the debate,” Trump said at a press conference in Iowa Tuesday night. “I’m going to do something else in Iowa. We’ll have something where we raise money for the veterans and the Wounded Warriors, we’ll do something simultaneously with the debate, but most likely I’m not going to do the debate. I didn’t like the fact that they sent out press releases toying, talking about Putin, and playing games. I don’t know what games Roger Ailes is playing, what’s wrong over there? Something’s wrong.”
Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, later told the Washington Post that he will “definitely not” participate in the debate.
After Trump’s threats of a boycott unless Megyn Kelly was banned from the debates, Fox News released a strong statement in her defense:
Published in GeneralWe 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.
He is clearly avoiding a debate with Cruz, and using the Kelly dust-up as cover. It will work to give him Iowa, and he will run the table.
We had one shot to stop Trump, but the establishment couldn’t swallow their pride and push for Cruz. Well, I guess conservatism will be taking a back seat for a while. Still a net-win for us, I think.
You’re welcome.
As fun as it might be to see Trump irradiate his groin, I think the best we can hope for might be his injudicious use of Nair.
There was another thin-skinned narcissist who refused to participate in Fox News hosted debate.
What was his name again? Oh yea, Barack Obama.
The similarities between Obama and Trump just keep stacking up.
I don’t think it’s an inability to face Megyn Kelly. Trump is upstaging Megyn, or pulling the rug out from under Fox, doing something totally unexpected. As president he could possibly handle Putin in the same way (successfully or unsuccessfully).
I don’t like Trump, but I’m liking the fact that the established way of running for office (letting others define how you have to do it) is being turned topsy turvy. It’s very interesting to watch, but I’m a little frightened too.
Well, now the DSM-6 will have a case study for Trump Derangement Syndrome when it is published during The Donald’s second term.
Or maybe his fourth term after that creaking Constitution is renovated a bit.
I feel the pain, and share some symptoms, having suggested in jest, somewhat, that Trump nominate Ron Jeremy as his running mate to form the full Idiocracy ticket
If fairness, replacing McConnell with a fine Kentucky thoroughbred is not really a bad idea.
Disgusting, funny, and true.
Did it occur to you that I disagree AND I wonder why you brought it up? …and that you still haven’t explained your point?
I asked in the form of a multiple choice question, but feel free to answer any way you like.
Eww… I don’t like my pizza with olives. I know, I’ll cut out my tongue.
Clever, Ball. The logic of Trump-support is astounding. Rubio has no business asking for support from the Right; let’s rally behind the guy who has no business asking for support from anyone.
Raaaaaaacccist!!
Just for the record, I think yer all over the top.
I hope that I’m wrong, but I expect that Trump will show up for the debate after all. He’s clearly a very skilled entertainer, and he knows how to keep people interested in him. I think saying he won’t show up, but showing up anyway maximizes the amount of attention he gets.
I could be wrong. I certainly don’t know this stuff as well as Trump does.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/266259-rnc-drops-nbc-as-debate-host
Giving cover for trumps pullout?
That was done. I think it’s just relevant again.
article said it was formally done today. Of course trump can now use it to his benefit….
Expect a trump tweet any minute now, talking about kicking unfair moderators to the curb…
Formally. It’s been in the works and already decided. Also, Reagan did not attend a debate in 1980. There’s no requirement to attend these events. Sad that you didn’t know about the RNC reaction to the CNBC debacle.
huh? where did you get that idea?
#132?
an erroneous assumption…
Chris Matthews: ‘Who Is Going to Watch a Debate Between the Two Cuban Guys?’
Right? Trump gets to claim credit for the debate ratings tanking that Fox will surely have….
So Herbert, you knew this was in the news for two weeks and the decision already made yet you report the formalization here and imply its cover for something that happened yesterday?
Ok that’s even worse than ignorance.
He could publish it as Trump magazine…Oh, he already had that and went bankrupt..
I really don’t think Trump is afraid of Megyn Kelly. I think he is deathly afraid of that nuclear triad question surfacing again and he hasn’t had time to understand what it’s all about.