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Title: Trump Quits Fox Debate After Network Mocks Him
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URL Source: http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/fox ... 01262016&s=al&dkt_nbr=1ooprr5b
Published: Jan 26, 2016
Author: Todd Beamon
Post Date: 2016-01-27 05:39:01 by BTP Holdings
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Trump Quits Fox Debate After Network Mocks Him Image: Trump Quits Fox Debate After Network Mocks Him By Todd Beamon | Tuesday, 26 Jan 2016 07:26 PM Republican front-runner Donald Trump will not appear in Thursday’s debate because of an ongoing dispute with Fox News over co-host Megyn Kelly. Trump will most likely have “some other event on another network,” Trump spokesman Corey Lewandowski told CNN in Iowa. He said that the alternative event would seek to raise money for wounded veterans. Late Tuesday night, Fox issued the following statement, Politico reported. The decision comes after Trump had said earlier that he "probably won't bother doing" the debate in Des Moines. It culminates a week of sparring between the front-runner and Fox over Kelly, whom Trump accused of treating him unfairly in the first debate in August in Cleveland. "Probably, I won't be doing the debate," Trump told reporters in Iowa after he was endorsed by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. "I'm going to have something else in Iowa, do something where we raise money for the veterans and the wounded warriors. "We're going to do something simultaneously with the debate," he said. "Most likely, I'm not going to do the debate." Trump has insisted that Kelly not participate in Thursday’s debate, which also will be hosted by Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Chris Wallace. Responding to Trump's decision, Sean Spicer, communications director for the Republican National Committee, told Newsmax in a statement that "obviously, we would love all of the candidates to participate, but each campaign ultimately makes their own decision as to what's in their best interest." The RNC is co-sponsoring the debate with Fox News. In the latest salvo, Fox released a statement Tuesday making light of Trump's latest threat. It was a response to the developer's posting on Instagram of a video claiming that Kelly is biased. "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," Fox said in the tongue-in-cheek statement. "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." Trump also posted a vote asking Twitter to respond to this question: "Should I do the #GOPdebate?" As of 7 p.m. ET, "yes" votes were slightly outpacing "no" votes. In Iowa, Trump bashed the Fox statement, calling it "wise-guy press releases" and saying that it was a key factor in his decision. "I didn't like the fact they sent out press releases toying, talking about Putin and playing games," he said. "I don't know what games Roger Ailes [Fox's chairman and CEO] is playing, but what's wrong over there, something's wrong. "But when they sent out that press release talking about, 'I said why are these people playing games?' Most likely I won't be doing the debate." He said that Fox "can't toy with me right they toy with everybody else. Let them have their debate and see how they do with the ratings." Trump called on Fox to donate earnings from the debate to veterans' organizations. "They're going to make a fortune with the debate. Let's see how many people watch. "We'll have our own event, raise some money for the wounded warriors." Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, called Trump's decision "a mistake." "This is in Des Moines, Iowa," he told Erin Burnett on CNN. "Tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of Iowans are going to be watching it. "A lot of undecided Republican voters would like to see one more time the Republicans make their case. "Why is he walking away?" Kristol asked. "Something offended by what Roger Ailes said? "He's that much of a crybaby that he can't get up on the stage and deal with questions from Megyn Kelly?" Kristol was among 22 conservatives who wrote essays in the upcoming issue of the National Review opposing Trump's candidacy. But David Gergen, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton and several Republican presidents, disagreed — accusing Fox of "stepping over a line." "I don't think he'll be there Thursday night," he told Burnett. "I do believe had he walked away only on the Megyn Kelly question, he would look childish. "But once this press release came out, I think it gave him the excuse not to go. He doesn't look so childish. "From his point of view, why does he want to do the debate?" Gergen posed. "He's ahead. He's done a lot of them. He wants to sit on his lead. "You can figure that he would like to find a way to get out of it, and I think Fox gave him an excuse to get out." Late Tuesday night, the Trump campaign released the following statement: "As someone who wrote one of the best-selling business books of all time, The Art of the Deal, who has built an incredible company, including some of the most valuable and iconic assets in the world, and as someone who has a personal net worth of many billions of dollars, Mr. Trump knows a bad deal when he sees one. FOX News is making tens of millions of dollars on debates, and setting ratings records (the highest in history), where as in previous years they were low-rated afterthoughts. Unlike the very stupid, highly incompetent people running our country into the ground, Mr. Trump knows when to walk away. Roger Ailes and FOX News think they can toy with him, but Mr. Trump doesn’t play games. There have already been six debates, and according to all online debate polls including Drudge, Slate, Time Magazine, and many others, Mr. Trump has won all of them, in particular the last one. Whereas he has always been a job creator and not a debater, he nevertheless truly enjoys the debating process - and it has been very good for him, both in polls and popularity. He will not be participating in the FOX News debate and will instead host an event in Iowa to raise money for the Veterans and Wounded Warriors, who have been treated so horribly by our all talk, no action politicians. Like running for office as an extremely successful person, this takes guts and it is the kind mentality our country needs in order to Make America Great Again." Poster Comment: Tweets at source.
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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Trumps feeling were hurt, cry baby.
He dropped out as soon as he found out that Rand Paul would be in the debate. Coincidence? I think not.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
But Bill Kristol is a Neocon scumbag who is in no position to make any ridiculing comments about Trump. John Howard says: There are 4 schools of economics: How to End the Refugee Flood Reagan did the same and won 46 states in a landslide. The people decided, NOT THE MEDIA.
That was before all the black-box voting machines were in place.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Trump can be a Churchill or a Hitler. I am willing to take a chance. A hundred million of us do not vote. Why??? Whether we want to be shot or hung is not really a viable option.
One may always vote for the sure thing, Clinton or Sanders.
If Trump is the pubbie candidate, we'll see all-time record voter turn-out in the fall.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Me and four other non voters I have lined up so far, more to come.
You guys will not be alone in returning to the polls; multiply it by millions.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
One told me, he hoped Trump would throw that SOB Obama in prison for treason.
Nice thought, but new presidents have never gone against their predecessors, ever. As much as we plebes hoped and wished that they would. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
I suspect we have a few Trump haters that will vote for Clinton or Sanders. All one has to note is the haters do NOT champion anyone else in the gaggle of pubs. They ought to be at least honest enough to speak up for Carson, not a word.
Ben lost more than a few when he claimed that Joseph built the pyramids to store Pharaoh's grain. Even the most backwood hillbilly rube cannot buy that bilge. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Last time I voted was Reagan's 2nd term, but if Trump sticks it out and wins the gop nom, he'll get my support. I know he'll never be able to deliver on all his promises, but how can you say no to the son of german immigrants?
Fox Jews can piss off, they're in it for the status quo. Let Donald Trump burn it all down, I hope he destroys the GOP for all eternity.
#2. To: BTP Holdings, Paul a phobia, fear of the Randslide (#0)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
trump should re-release/link this me-gyn clip
#4. To: Darkwing (#1)
Trumps feeling were hurt, cry baby.
Marxism: steal everything
Keynesianism: steal by counterfeiting whenever needed
Chicago school (Milton Friedman): steal by counterfeiting at a steady, predictable rate
Austrians: don't steal
'Wiped off the Map' – The Rumor of the Century
#5. To: Darkwing (#1)
Trumps feeling were hurt, cry baby.
#6. To: Cynicom (#5)
#7. To: Lod (#6)
#8. To: Darkwing (#1)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#9. To: hondo68 (#8)
#10. To: Cynicom (#7)
#11. To: Lod (#10)
If Trump is the pubbie candidate, we'll see all-time record voter turn-out in the fall.
#12. To: Cynicom (#11)
#13. To: Lod (#12)
#14. To: Cynicom (#13)
#15. To: Lod (#14)
#16. To: Cynicom (#15)
They ought to be at least honest enough to speak up for Carson, not a word.
#17. To: Lod, Cynicom (#10)
#18. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#19. To: Darkwing (#1)
Fox Jews is crying holocaustian tears right now, FUCK THEM. Donald doesn't owe them anything. Trumps feeling were hurt, cry baby.
-Alex Kurtagic
#20. To: hondo68 (#8)
BS. Rand Paul sold us out to Monsanto when he voted to make it illegal for states to allow GMO labeling.
The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
#21. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Donald Trump OWNS Megyn Kelly: 
-Alex Kurtagic
#22. To: Obnoxicated, Lod, Cynicom (#17)
Trump is right: No one is tuning in for JEB!cuck or Fat Christie, they just want to see Donald and his antics--he is manipulating Fox in ways they didn't expect. A great portion of Trump's support comes from the fact that so many people are fed up with the lies and biases of the mainstream media and respect him all the more because of how much mud is slung at him. His decision and their reactions to it are only further proving this point. ...if Trump sticks it out and wins the gop nom, he'll get my support. I know he'll never be able to deliver on all his promises, but how can you say no to the son of german immigrants?
-Alex Kurtagic
#23. To: Lod (#16)
There's quite a few of them around these parts. ;) backwood hillbilly rube
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#24. To: X-15 (#21)
Megyn Kelly looks like the picture of a slut I just saw on a profile on Cougarsplay. ;) Megyn Kelly
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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