Saturday, August 8, 2015

Did Donald Trump derail his own presidential bid?

By Rob Janicki
While watching Donald Trump on Thursday night's prime time Republican debate, I knew he went a yard too far in running his mouth.  When he bagged on Megyn Kelly of Fox News, he made a mistake that I believe will come back to haunt him and quite possibly seal his fate to one of failure in the Republican presidential nomination process.

You just don't insult a well liked conservative icon journalist from Fox and not pay a penalty for such rudeness.  Trump isn't speaking directly to the issues with one iota of specificity.  Trump has a thin skin like another narcissist we have to suffer through for the next 18 months.  But, unlike our narcissist in chief, Trump is openly a rude, crude blowhard satisfying his own ego and little else.  Trump has now felt the first reaction to his rude behavior.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was dumped from a prime speaking role to an important gathering of conservative activists on Friday for his criticism of Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly after a combustible debate performance.

Trump was scheduled to deliver the keynote address on Saturday night at a conference in Atlanta organized by Red State, an influential conservative group.

Red State chief Erick Erickson said he had disinvited Trump from the event because of what he described as "demeaning" remarks about Kelly who was one of three moderators during the first major Republican debate on Thursday night in Cleveland.

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