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Let's help fight that setback a bit 

LIVE Stream: Donald Trump Special Event for Veterans in Des Moines, IA (1-28-15)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PMynb62GRk

This is going to negatively affect both the sides. Fox News will lose more than 50% of the expected viewership for the debate, and in the mean time, Trump will lose his airtime with Fox News. Considering that tens of millions of US citizens are addicted to the Fox News, this can be quite a bit of a setback for Donald Trump.

“You know the thing about chaos–it’s fair.”






DES MOINES, Iowa—Chaos has descended upon Iowa’s capital city hours before the final 2016 GOP presidential primary debate before Iowans head to the caucuses on Monday–which will be moderated by the Fox News Channel.

Because of the network’s antics aimed at GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, Trump has decided to abandon the network’s debate. Every pre-set narrative from the mainstream media has been destructed as Trump dukes it out with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), another anti-establishment force who is set to appear in the debate. And every single one of the establishment-backed GOP presidential candidates, from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to his former mentor Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, can’t get anywhere close to first-place Trump’s or second-place Cruz’s level of support.

Meanwhile, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum—the winners, respectively, of the 2008 and 2012 Iowa caucuses and both thorns in the side of the political establishment—plan to support Trump at his event across town at Drake University. Huckabee’s and Santorum’s move is surely going to infuriate their former employer, the Fox News Channel, as Roger Ailes—the network’s chief executive—scrambles to clot the bleeding Trump has inflicted upon his previously invincible network.

Less than an hour before the undercard debate featuring several of the lower-polling candidates, and less than three hours before Fox’s main stage debate will feature Cruz, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), and the establishment candidates, chaos rules the night as reporters, GOP operatives, and more buzz about only one candidate: Donald Trump.

Trump, who isn’t even going to the debate, is dominating all discussions of it—meaning basically he’s winning with none of the risk brought on by opening himself up to attack.

All this chaos reminds one of a particular monologue from The Joker, played by the late Heath Ledger, in The Dark Knight:



So as the establishment, which has tried over and over again to tip the scales in favor of their candidates—and has especially failed to disclose conflicts of interest and put forward political tricks to trip up conservatives—loses control, the race descends into chaos. And in the chaos, voters find fairness. May the best man win.


http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/28/des-moines-chaos-descends/

Fox was wrong to assign the clearly biased Kelly to this debate. Trump did what he had to do knowing it would be another ambush. at this point Trump should let it go, Fox will pay with loss of viewers. Being unfair and unbalanced has its price.

Honestly, I can see how you might think that was what was going on.

But if you look at it as a contrived show/situation strictly to maximize exposure and ratings, then it is clear that you are being manipulated by the plot.

Trump and Kelly may be conversing as we talk about how to maximize profit from this.

With No Détente, Donald Trump’s Feud With Fox Takes Center Stage

For months, Donald J. Trump had kept up a relentless and sometimes personal barrage against the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, in retaliation for the tough — and, he said, unfair — questioning she submitted him to in the first Republican debate last summer. And for months, Fox News and Ms. Kelly had avoided taking the bait, intent on sticking to Ms. Kelly’s vow to avoid becoming part of the story.

Fox’s decision to fight back this week after Mr. Trump demanded Fox remove her from its panel of moderators at a debate scheduled for Thursday sent the already unconventional Republican race for president into uncharted territory just days before the first critical contest in Iowa.

With Mr. Trump declaring he will skip the debate, the most potentially consequential fight on the campaign trail is not between Mr. Trump and his fellow candidates, but between Mr. Trump and the top-rated cable television news network, which is also one of the most important forces in Republican politics.

Neither Fox News nor Mr. Trump showed any indication of budging on Wednesday. That was in spite of furious discussions inside the network, inside the campaign, and in direct and indirect communications between the two sides. The talks even included a conversation between Mr. Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and the influential Fox News chairman, Roger Ailes, who contacted her to gauge Mr. Trump’s seriousness but, network officials said, did not seek to change his mind.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/us/politics/with-no-detente-donald-trumps-feud-with-fox-takes-center-stage.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

If Trump were any more than any of the other candidates, he would show us all how to fight the IRS and win... since taxes are voluntary by their own wording and pamphlets.

Naw. Trump is just another screwball, out to screw the people. His direction is slightly different, that's all.

Your middle school level deflections only serve to degrade your own public reputation, but do nothing to avoid the appearance of cowardice on the part of spoiled rich brat Donald, who appears to be terrified by prospect of confrontation by Fox's tall blonde mean girl alpha-hottie.

Exclusive: Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Calls Donald Trump a ‘Breath of Fresh Air’

 “I won’t be asking any questions to which I don’t know the answers,” she said.

I think I get it, it's just another "Love/Hate" relationship.

Fine.

Megan for WH Press Secretary!

Come on, nobody takes those garbage media weirdos seriously. Trump only benefits from playing a little game around them.

Nonsense.  MK, an attorney by training, is tough on all candidates she interviews.  It's her job to thoroughly and rigorously vet them on behalf of her viewing public.

She made Rand Paul and the rest uncomfortable, but they didn't throw hissy fits about a journalist turning up the heat on people who want to be elected to lead the free world.  Only the poor widdle Richie Rich had a problem with somebody finally standing up to him and taking his ego down a few notches.

Donald doesn't get to effectively veto debate moderators by starting personal feuds with them.  That's not how it works.

If he's afraid of MK being mean to him, how's he going to deal with Putin?  The French and English press may also be relied upon to print very rude, unflattering things, so I guess Donald better go hide in a cave or something.

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She has to make a living somehow. Can't blame her. And I'm sure Trump isn't too bothered by her as well.

Well, at least he'll be the "trendiest" president in US history. Can't deny him that.