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RandySF

(58,464 posts)
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 06:14 PM Mar 2018

Megyn Kelly: Fox News Had to Explain to Trump Lawyer Why It Would Be Bad if I Were Killed

Donald Trump’s feud with Megyn Kelly was way darker than any of us knew. Kelly received so many death threats and so much harassment from Trump supporters after confronting him at the first Republican debate with a challenging question about his many, many misogynistic statements that she needed a special security detail for a year.

The Trump campaign stoked the flames of the Kelly hate, the Fox News host told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview on Wednesday, to the point that one of the top executives at Fox News had to explain to one of Trump’s top employees why if she “gets killed” it might be bad for their campaign.

“Michael Cohen, who is Trump's top lawyer and executive vice president with the Trump Organization had retweeted ‘let’s gut her,’ about me,” Kelly said. “At a time when the threat level was very high, which he knew. And Bill Shine, an executive vice president of Fox, called him up to say, 'You got to stop this. We understand you are angry but she's got three kids and is walking around New York.' ”

“And he didn't much care,” Kelly continued. “And what Bill Shine said to Michael Cohen was, ‘Let me put it to you in terms you can understand: If Megyn Kelly gets killed it is not going help your candidate.’ ”

Let me put this in terms you can understand. Cohen took to Twitter to call Kelly a liar and retweet people calling her a “snake” and a “psycho.”



http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/17/megyn_kelly_trump_s_lawyer_threatened_me_seemed_ok_with_me_getting_physically.html

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Megyn Kelly: Fox News Had to Explain to Trump Lawyer Why It Would Be Bad if I Were Killed (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2018 OP
Total self-centeredness. That's who Republicans are. Sophia4 Mar 2018 #1
And that folks is The potus.... pbmus Mar 2018 #2
Well, there are the second amendment folks... ProudLib72 Mar 2018 #3
Republican '2nd Amendment Remedies' not a new theme keithbvadu2 Mar 2018 #19
But at a presidential campaign rally? ProudLib72 Mar 2018 #22
Some ugly fucking shit. I'm glad she is speaking out and remember the hate JI7 Mar 2018 #4
I just can't believe there are so many evil people out there who support and even encourage this smirkymonkey Mar 2018 #5
trump got the right fucking asshole lawyer Cha Mar 2018 #6
A brainless one at that. sheshe2 Mar 2018 #8
The way Kelly was treated was deplorable Downtown Hound Mar 2018 #7
I agree. I don't in any way wish her harmed, but she did profit from creating Squinch Mar 2018 #11
Searching for sympathy for Megyn Kelly...... Glamrock Mar 2018 #9
The point is Cohens history of threatening women RandySF Mar 2018 #10
I get it. Glamrock Mar 2018 #12
Give it up. Better chance of finding treasure on Oak Island. dchill Mar 2018 #27
Now come on, let's be fair gratuitous Mar 2018 #13
Bwaaaahahaha Glamrock Mar 2018 #17
+ 1 Breaking News - Bee Keeper Gets Stung! Canoe52 Mar 2018 #26
Cohen is a criminal. Karma has a big score to settle w him. JDC Mar 2018 #14
The fear Stormy has is real. sarcasmo Mar 2018 #15
Thugs. McCamy Taylor Mar 2018 #16
Now Cohen's got me feeling sorry for Megyn Kelly. Thanks, asshole. flibbitygiblets Mar 2018 #18
Michael Cohen is trying to please his Daddy Donald by emulating Roy Cohn. Stinky The Clown Mar 2018 #20
Sick O'Fant. dchill Mar 2018 #29
Hmmm... I wonder why we didn't hear about this... debsy Mar 2018 #21
Sounds an awful lot like the Mafia world wide wally Mar 2018 #23
Trump likes violence... Hekate Mar 2018 #24
I am eternally fascinated how many think they can lie down with that dog nolabear Mar 2018 #25
I find this difficult to believe. Calista241 Mar 2018 #28
It's not so much Trump killing people that's the problem Downtown Hound Mar 2018 #31
Not a lot of Sympathy for Kelly brettdale Mar 2018 #30
 

Sophia4

(3,515 posts)
1. Total self-centeredness. That's who Republicans are.
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 06:20 PM
Mar 2018

They have no capacity to feel empathy.

What a bunch of losers.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
3. Well, there are the second amendment folks...
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 06:24 PM
Mar 2018

I'm surprised so few have died because of the orange menace.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
22. But at a presidential campaign rally?
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 08:23 PM
Mar 2018

And it was glossed over as being silly. Oh look at the man behind him with the surprised look on his face. Isn't that funny?

JI7

(89,239 posts)
4. Some ugly fucking shit. I'm glad she is speaking out and remember the hate
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 06:24 PM
Mar 2018

directed at her from trump supporters.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
5. I just can't believe there are so many evil people out there who support and even encourage this
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 06:28 PM
Mar 2018

behavior. What a sick nation we are.

Cha

(296,806 posts)
6. trump got the right fucking asshole lawyer
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 06:29 PM
Mar 2018

to rep him.

the lowest scum of the Earth.. right there in trump's pit.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
7. The way Kelly was treated was deplorable
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 06:34 PM
Mar 2018

And, I have no sympathy for her. She spent her whole career and made a ton of money off of building this movement up that ended up hating her. Too bad for her.

Squinch

(50,911 posts)
11. I agree. I don't in any way wish her harmed, but she did profit from creating
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 07:14 PM
Mar 2018

the hate those psychos turned on her.

Glamrock

(11,787 posts)
9. Searching for sympathy for Megyn Kelly......
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 06:48 PM
Mar 2018

Looking
Looking
Looking
Looking
If she hadn't help build this I'm sure it'd be easier to find...
Looking
Looking

RandySF

(58,464 posts)
10. The point is Cohens history of threatening women
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 07:11 PM
Mar 2018

I am looking for a link, Cohen also threatened a woman within the Trump organization

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
13. Now come on, let's be fair
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 07:19 PM
Mar 2018

Last edited Fri Mar 16, 2018, 09:30 PM - Edit history (1)

If only there was some way Megyn Kelly could have told her story, some platform where she could have publicly said what was happening to her. But she was as isolated and incommunicado as the hero of Johnny Got His Gun.

Glamrock

(11,787 posts)
17. Bwaaaahahaha
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 07:58 PM
Mar 2018

How-a-fuckin-bout-it! You made that bed, my dear. You ramped up the racism. Now the racists are after you? Awww. I has a sad!

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
18. Now Cohen's got me feeling sorry for Megyn Kelly. Thanks, asshole.
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 08:04 PM
Mar 2018

I'd have a lot more respect for her if she'd say "All right, they intimidated me, and that's why I backed off to the point of making Trump kind of look human, and now that I think of it, I let all women down, and and probably helped get him elected."

She tousled his disgusting hair for fuck's sake...AFTER he said the "...she was bleeding from her whatever..." shit he that he spewed, and all the rest of his vile "hitting back" excuse for woman-bashing. She softballed him in the follow up interview, laughing coyly like she was enchanted.

Still, she doesn't deserve death threats. Just unemployment.

Stinky The Clown

(67,761 posts)
20. Michael Cohen is trying to please his Daddy Donald by emulating Roy Cohn.
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 08:23 PM
Mar 2018

I really think its that simple.

Hekate

(90,551 posts)
24. Trump likes violence...
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 08:45 PM
Mar 2018

He lkes to call it down on people who cross him. We also have past testimony of spousal abuse, and sexual assaults that he boasted about.

I'm glad Megyn and her kids are okay. No one should have to live with that.

nolabear

(41,932 posts)
25. I am eternally fascinated how many think they can lie down with that dog
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 08:51 PM
Mar 2018

and not get covered with fleas. Megyn Kelly creeps me out, but I wish her no harm. But man, what a life in that monster’s sphere of influence.

Calista241

(5,585 posts)
28. I find this difficult to believe.
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 09:02 PM
Mar 2018

Trump is in his 70's, and has been in business for 50 years, through both financially good and bad times; if he really believed people could be killed for convenience, he would have already done it by now.

This kind of stuff is just not believable. I mean, i understand that Trump is incompetent and a danger to us all, but to implicate him in some kind of murder for pettiness scheme after all the shit people have said about him over the years is not credible.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
31. It's not so much Trump killing people that's the problem
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 12:41 PM
Mar 2018

It's him inspiring his psychotic followers to go out and do it for him.

brettdale

(12,362 posts)
30. Not a lot of Sympathy for Kelly
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 09:14 PM
Mar 2018

cuz of what she did at her times with Faux News.

But yeepers my disgust at Michael Cohen, not just as a lawyer for Trump, but as a Human being.

Hes on a whole other level of creepiness, compared just to say a Jesse Watter from Faux, this guy
Cohen, really sickens me, at his treatment of people.

This is why, I get beeped off, at those so called celebs/bloggers/tweeters who have say They have seen the apprentice
outakes, or the russian hooker video, yet say they cant or wont release it to the internet.


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