Thread: Megyn Kelly took Trump ‘on your knees’ comment out of context, CONTESTANT AGREES

Megyn Kelly took Trump ‘on your knees’ comment out of context, CONTESTANT AGREES

Posted by The Right Scoop
Aug 7, 2015 at 5:38 PM in Politics

Last night Megyn Kelly asked Donald Trump about some of the ‘horrible’ things he’s said to women. In that question, she said this among her line-up of insults:

“You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees.”

Now the way that statement was framed by Kelly implies that Trump was being sexually suggestive, alluding that it would be a pretty picture to see that contestant on her knees…you know.

But that’s not what happened at all.

In the clip from Celebrity Apprentice, Brett Michaels was explaining to Trump that Brande Roderick didn’t want to get fired and had gotten down on her knees and begged not to be fired.

Trump responded “excuse me, you dropped to your knees?” Roderick responded “Yes.”

Then Trump joked “must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees.”

Trump was joking about something that had already occurred. He wasn’t suggesting she get down on her knees or that it would be pretty if she did.

Now maybe the joke was inappropriate. But Brande Roderick doesn’t think so. In fact she didn’t even remember it.

Here’s the clip in question and Roderick responding to it on MSNBC earlier today:

(click on link for video of interview)

Roderick thought Trump was just trying to be funny on TV. She didn’t even take it the way Megyn Kelly suggested it was said.

Bottom line is Megyn should have dumped this in her question or at least provided the appropriate context.

http://therightscoop.com/megyn-kelly...estant-agrees/

An organization called "Our Principles Pac" is running ads against Trump to try to hurt him with the woman's vote. So, I thought I would investigate what some of these actually were and post them here. The first one is the one above. When I have time I'll post others if I can find them.

So the front-runner of the Republican Party is being accused of things he didn't actually say for things that didn't actually happen trying to make him look sexist and misogynist which he isn't at all.

Here is Our Principles PAC Mission Statement:

Mission Statement

As Thomas Jefferson said, "In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock." With our nation's progress stalled by politicians who refuse to lead, Americans are rightly frustrated. Our Principles PAC was formed to educate and engage American voters about the men and women who seek our vote, and about the challenging issues they will confront should they get elected.

Is lying about a Presidential candidate "educating" American Voters? Uh no, it's misleading American Voters. Who would want to do this?

Lets see who is Our Principles PAC. Such horrible things being said that are untrue, it must be Democrats working for Bernie or Hillary.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...per-pac-218071

Top former Romney aide launches anti-Trump super PAC

By Alex Isenstadt

01/21/16 02:42 PM EST
Updated 01/21/16 05:23 PM EST

With less than two weeks until the Iowa caucuses, a new super PAC has formed with the intention of taking down Donald Trump.

The group, which is called Our Principles PAC, is founded by Katie Packer, a veteran Republican strategist who served as deputy campaign manager on Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.

This week, the group sent out mailers to Iowa voters attacking Trump, who polls show is in a tight battle with Ted Cruz in the state, where caucuses are to be held on Feb. 1. In a filing with the Federal Election Commission, the group has reported spending nearly $45,000 on mailers.

Additionally, the super PAC has reserved more than $3,000 in spending on Iowa radio stations, according to a media buying source.

Packer has spent months in talks with Republican donors and operatives to gauge financial interest in an anti-Trump campaign.

In a brief interview on Thursday, Packer wouldn’t comment on the group’s plans other than to say: “Our Principles PAC has focused on conservative principles and ensuring that voters have the necessary information to make a wise decision on Election Day."

Packer declined to say whether she had spoken with Romney about the group. The 2012 GOP nominee has been privately expressing worry to former aides about Trump’s ongoing lead in the primary.

Another former Romney aide, Alex Castellanos, has also been pitching Republican donors on a prospective anti-Trump effort but it has yet to materialize.

With the start of primary voting just days away, much of the talk in establishment GOP circles about mounting a sustained anti-Trump campaign has dissipated. Castellanos, a veteran GOP ad man, recently said that it was “too late” for those concerned about Trump to begin a media campaign against him.

Many in the party’s establishment wing are convinced that a Trump nomination would damage the GOP’s prospects for winning the White House and imperil Republican candidates up and down the ballot. Some share similar concerns about Cruz, who is also waging an insurgent-style campaign.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...#ixzz43PsDHzsw
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So since before the Iowa Caucuses, it's been Romney people doing this to Trump through this Our Principles PAC. Are these people unemployed people looking for ways to take advantage of donors and voters spreading misleading, inaccurate and dishonest ads trying to demean the front runner of the Republican race for President? Are they that low and small, that out of work and money, that they have to stoop this low?!

Or is it .... Romney? When the ads weren't working he sure jumped in to fight Trump himself for Super Tuesday 2, didn't he? I think Romney is so jealous of Donald Trump, it's made him crazy.

Envy .... it's one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Keep that in mind Utah. You all could help bring it home for Trump on Tuesday, so he can wrap this up quickly, put these poor jealous hateful wannabes to bed, and start working on winning the General Election, something he can and will do if he has enough lead time to undo all the damage Republicans like Romney have caused to Trump and our Party.

Mormon Voters Really Don’t Like Donald Trump. Here’s Why.
It’s not just Mitt Romney.

posted on Mar. 19, 2016, at 10:44 p.m.
McKay Coppins

BuzzFeed Staff

Speaking before one of his smallest crowds this campaign season, Donald Trump declared Friday night at a rally in Salt Lake City that he loves the Mormons.

The feeling does not appear to be mutual.

So far in 2016, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints have proven to be one of the most stubbornly anti-Trump constituencies in the Republican Party — a dynamic that will likely manifest itself in Utah’s presidential caucuses next week.

National polling data focused on Mormons voters is hard to come by, but the election results speak for themselves. Even as Trump has steamrolled his way through the GOP primaries, he has repeatedly been trounced in places with large LDS populations.

In Wyoming, the third-most heavily Mormon state in the country, Trump was able to muster just 70 votes in the low-turnout Republican caucuses there — losing to Ted Cruz by a whopping 59 points.

In Idaho, the country’s second most Mormon state, Trump lost the primary by 18 points.

And in the Mormon mecca of Utah, the most recent primary poll has Trump in third place — more than 40 points behind Cruz, and 18 points behind Kasich.

The pattern holds at the county level, as well. As New York Times data journalist Nate Cohn illustrated, the larger the proportion of Mormons in a given county, the worse Trump has generally performed in the primary contest there.

This dynamic was perhaps most vividly demonstrated earlier this month in the deeply conservative Madison County — home to Brigham Young University-Idaho, and a population that’s estimated to be upward of 95% Mormon. Cruz won the county with 57% of the vote; Rubio came in second with 27%. Trump won a total of 539 votes — less than 8% of the county electorate, and just barely enough to squeak by fourth-place Kasich.

If Trump is wiped out in Tuesday’s Utah caucuses as expected, many will no doubt credit Mitt Romney, who has spent recent weeks on a high-profile crusade to stop the billionaire. But LDS voters’ skepticism of the billionaire — which, polls suggest, predates Romney’s emergence as an anti-Trump champion — is rooted more deeply in Mormon culture and politics.

That’s because while Mormons make up the most reliably Republican religious group in the country, they differ from the party’s base in key ways that work against Trump.

On immigration, for example, the hard-line proposals that have rallied Trump’s fans — like building a massive wall along the country’s southern border to keep immigrants out — are considerably less likely to fire up conservative Latter-day Saints. The LDS Church has spent years lobbying for “compassionate” immigration reform. In 2011, church leaders offered a full-throated endorsement of “the Utah Compact,” a state legislative initiative that discouraged deporting otherwise law-abiding undocumented immigrants, and offered a path to residency for families that would be separated by deportation.

These pro-immigrant attitudes are common among rank-and-file believers, many of whom have served missions in Latin-American countries. Mormons are more than twice as likely as evangelicals to say they support “more immigration” to the United States, according to Notre Dame political scientist David Campbell. And a 2012 Pew survey found that Mormons were more likely to say immigrants “strengthen” the country than they were to call immigrants an overall “burden.” When Romney ran for president in 2012 on a restrictionist immigration platform, his views were widely noted in LDS circles for being at odds with his church.

Many Mormon voters are similarly wary of another Trump campaign hallmark: Muslim-bashing.

Last year, when the billionaire proposed banning all Muslims from entering the United States in the wake of the San Bernardino terrorist attack, Trump became the only candidate in either party this election cycle to elicit a response from LDS church leadership.

“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is neutral in regard to party politics and election campaigns. However, it is not neutral in relation to religious freedom,” the statement read, before proceeding to quote the faith’s 19th-century founder, Joseph Smith, saying he would “die in defending the rights of … any other denomination who may be unpopular and too weak to defend themselves.” (In case the message wasn’t clear enough, the church-owned Deseret News went on to publish a story highlighting the growing alliance and solidarity between Mormon and Muslim leaders.)

During last year’s debate over the potential national security threat posed by Syrian refugees coming to the United State, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert was the only Republican governor in the country to say refugees were welcome in his state.

Trump is off-putting to Mormons for more predictable reasons as well. His blatant religious illiteracy, his penchant for onstage cursing, his habit of flinging crude insults at women, his less-than-virtuous personal life, and widely chronicled marital failures — all of this is anathema to the wholesome, family-first lifestyle that Mormonism promotes. And demographically speaking, Mormons tend to reside outside Trump’s base of support anyway. They have higher-than-average education levels, whereas Trump does best among voters without any college education; they are more likely to be weekly churchgoers, while Trump performs better with Christians who attend services infrequently.

LDS voters are not a political monolith — just ask BYU’s Bernie Sanders fan club — and Trump will no doubt be cheered on by a noisy minority of supporters in the Beehive State Tuesday. But it’s difficult to imagine a Republican presidential nominee more naturally repellant to Mormons than The Donald.

In fact, a poll released Saturday by Y2 Analytics asked likely Republican caucus-goers in Utah how they would vote in the general election if Trump won the GOP nomination. Only 29% of these die-hard Republicans said they would pull the lever for Trump; 25% said they would write in another candidate, 15% said they would vote third-party, 8% said they would not cast a vote for president at all, and 7% said they would vote for the Democratic candidate.

If anti-Trump Republicans are serious about backing a third-party ticket in the general election, they would do well to schedule some campaign stops in Provo.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins...hy#.wxl34ejg1l

On immigration, for example, the hard-line proposals that have rallied Trump’s fans — like building a massive wall along the country’s southern border to keep immigrants out — are considerably less likely to fire up conservative Latter-day Saints.

Because the Mormons; such as, Romney's great grand father, still want to be able to FLEE to Mexico to avoid prosecution for polygamy charges.

Megyn Kelly took Trump ‘on your knees’ comment out of context, CONTESTANT AGREES

Megyn Kelly is the worst kind of yellow journalists - filled with lies and gotcha's instead of reporting accurately. Her goal is to embarrass with a sneer on her face. Yech!. You can't watch her show w/o seeing her losing control, quests speaking over each other or her cutting them off rudely. Who wants to watch that agony?