Donald Trump gave no ground on Sunday, insisting his crude remarks appearing to imply Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly was menstruating when she questioned him during the first Republican presidential debate were anything but.
Three weeks after two of his rivals demanded he quit the race for the GOP presidential nomination and three days after a record 24 million viewers tuned into the GOP debate in Cleveland that many establishment Republicans predicted might be the beginning of the end for him, Trump is still center stage.
And although his longtime political strategist, Roger Stone, left over the weekend, Trump offered few hints his campaign was in disarray. The master-of-shock has plowed through other recent controversies — suggesting undocumented Mexican immigrants were rapists and questioning Sen. John McCain’s standing as a war hero — and come away with even stronger polling numbers as he taps into wide-spread dissatisfaction with Washington’s political class.
“I said nothing wrong whatsoever,” Trump declared on CNN’s “State of the Union” two days after he had said of Kelly on CNN: “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her — wherever.”
Billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump criticized Republican rival Jeb Bush on Sunday for his lucrative fundraising, while vowing to be immune from outside influences should he be elected president.
“These are not people that are putting it up because they like the color of his hair,” Trump said on ABC’s “This Week,” referring to reports that the former Florida governor raised more than $100 million in early campaign funds. “These are people that are putting it up because they want something, and they’re going to get something.”
Trump, who says he plans to fund his own campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, appeared eager Sunday to pivot from his harsh criticism of Fox News host Megyn Kelly, which sparked a new round of outrage that he is sexist. He also sought to wave off claims that Republicans do not trust him because he’s shifted views on his past support of a single-payer health care system and some other issues, and he tried to position himself again as someone who can shake up the Washington establishment.
Trump claimed his promised resistance to lobbyists and donors is “one of the reasons that I’m killing everybody in the polls.” Still, his campaign has been thrown into damage control after his remarks about Kelly, who was one of the Fox moderators at Thursday’s GOP debate in Cleveland and has a strong following among conservatives.
Donald Trump is not backing off his harsh criticism of Fox News host Megyn Kelly and denies he suggested she was menstruating when asking him tough questions at the first Republican presidential debate.
“I said nothing wrong whatsoever,” Trump said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
In the first of several call-ins to the Sunday morning news shows, the billionaire real estate developer and entertainer said he was referring to Kelly’s nose when he said on CNN Friday: “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her — wherever.”
“Only a deviant” would suggest his remarks were sexist, Trump said. “Only a sick person would even think about it.”
Taken From: Politico http://www.politico.com/p/pages/2016-elections/
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