SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly ripped on critics of former President Donald Trump over comments he made at an event this week for black journalists after several people commented about his appearance and the group even inviting him, suggesting he should not be able to speak to black journalists a certain way.
“To me, it’s so funny. All [of the] white liberals being like, ‘Ah! He’s horrible.’ And then you had actual black people all over Twitter, watching it posting videos of themselves watching it and tweeting about it being like, ‘And?’… He goes into the lion’s den and this reporter Rachel Scott from ABC News, decides to open up the event with the nastiest question she could dream of,” Kelly said during a show segment on Thursday following Trump’s Wednesday appearance.
“And I will just tell you as a journalist who has asked Trump very hard questions, I thought this was grossly inappropriate. It’s not a presidential debate. That is not how you begin an interview. He does not – unlike a presidential debate – have to be there. There’s an understanding of presidential debates in the primary contest that you will be there, at least back then when it was unclear he was going to win it anyway. This is an interview, he doesn’t have to be there. Kamala Harris wasn’t there,” she continued.
“He’s doing you a courtesy showing up. So you can ask some tough questions, but there should be a crescendo and decrescendo. And by the way, the question should be fact-based and she put a lot of non-facts in her question as though they were true. So I did have a problem with what she did, though I liked tough questions as a general principle…” the host said.
“I wasn’t aware as a journalist myself of the rule that you cannot attack black journalists. I’m just now finding this out that they are too fragile, I guess for us to call them names. Does the black skin make them just completely weak and unable to take criticism because that’s not true of the amazing black journalists I know. And that I’ve worked with, I don’t know who she’s talking about,” she added.
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Trump also ripped Scott over her question. She asked:
Mr. President, we appreciate you giving us an hour of your time. I want to start by addressing the elephant in the room, sir. A lot of people did not think it was appropriate for you to be here today. You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals, from Nikki Haley to former President Barack Obama, saying that they were not born in the United States, which is not true. You have told four congresswomen, women of color who were American citizens, to go back to where they came from. You have used words like “animal” and “rabid” to describe Black district attorneys. You’ve attacked Black journalists, calling them losers and saying the questions they ask are “stupid” and “racist.” You’ve had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort. So my question, sir, now that you are asking Black supporters to vote for you, why should Black voters trust you after you have used language like that?
“Well, first of all, I don’t think I’ve ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner. The first question. You don’t even say hello or ask how I am. Are you with ABC? Because I think they’re a fake news network, a terrible network, and I think it’s disgraceful,” Trump began in response. “I came here in good spirit. I love the Black population of this country. I’ve done so much for the Black population of this country, including employment and opportunity zones with Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, which is one of the greatest programs ever for Black workers and Black entrepreneurs,” he added.
“I’ve done so much, and you know, historically Black colleges and universities were out of money. They were stone-cold broke, and I saved them and gave them long-term financing when nobody else was doing it. I think it’s a very rude introduction. I don’t know exactly why you would do something like that,” Trump continued.
“Let me go a step further. I was invited here, and I was told my opponent, whether it was Biden or Kamala, was going to be here. It turned out my opponent isn’t here. You invited me under false pretenses. And then you said you couldn’t do it with Zoom. Well, you know, where’s Zoom? She’s going to do it with Zoom, and she’s not coming. Then you were half an hour late. Just so we understand, I have too much respect for you to be late. They couldn’t get their equipment working or something was wrong. I think it’s a very nasty question,” he said.
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