Trump’s latest Megyn Kelly insult gets him booted from conservative program

Donald Trump late Friday said Fox News’ Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes,” blood coming from other places. And that got him thrown off the program Saturday at the RedState gathering of conservatives.

Trump responded by calling the event’s organizer a “total loser,” and said the “wherever” was supposed to Kelly’s nose.

It was too much for Erick Erickson of RedState. “There are even lines blunt talkers and unprofessional politicians should not cross. Decency is one of those lines,” he wrote on the group’s web site. “As much as I do personally like Donald Trump, his comment about Megyn Kelly on CNN is a bridge too far for me.”

Kelly had rattled Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, at Thursday’s debate by asking him about his past derogtory statements about women.

Trump fired back Friday, and Erickson. "I just don't want someone on stage who gets a hostile question from a lady and his first inclination is to imply it was hormonal. It just was wrong," he wrote.

“While Mr. Trump resonates with a lot of people with his bluntness, including me to a degree, there are just real lines of decency a person running for president should not cross."

The Trump campaign issued a statement saying Trump “made Megyn Kelly look really bad (Thursday night). She was a mess with her anger and totally caught off guard. Mr. Trump said ‘blood was coming out of her eyes and whatever’ meaning nose, but wanted to move on to more important topics. Only a deviant would think anything else. This related to the debate, which because of Mr. Trump had 24 million viewers --- the biggest in cable news history. According to Time, Newsmax, Drudge Report, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Hill and many others, Mr. Trump won the debate.”

And, the statement said, Erickson “has a history of supporting establishment losers in failed campaigns so it is an honor to be uninvited from his event. Mr. Trump is an outsider and does not fit his agenda. Many of the 900 people that wanted to hear Mr. Trump speak tonight have been calling and emailing---they are very angry at Erickson and the others that are trying to be so politically correct. To them Mr. Trump says, ‘We will catch you at another time soon.’’’

Several other Republican candidates are to appear at the Atlanta event, including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

Erickson said he had invited Kelly to attend in place of Trump in the evening.

This story was originally published August 8, 2015 at 12:14 PM with the headline "Trump’s latest Megyn Kelly insult gets him booted from conservative program."