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Megyn Kelly Tells Daily Beast Reporter: It’s ‘A Statement Of Fact’ That Some Mexicans Are Rapists And Murderers

Posted by Ellen -7842.60pc on July 29, 2015 · Flag

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Megyn Kelly hosted Daily Beast reporter Tim Mak, one of the reporters of the big story about Donald Trump’s sexual assault on his then-wife Ivana Trump. Kelly hostilely confronted Mak about the substance of his story but, to her credit, she acknowledged just how wrong the threats from Trump’s lawyer were.

As I posted previously, The Daily Beast article tied Trump’s behavior to his recent comments about Mexican immigrants being rapists and other kinds of criminals.

Kelly, questioning the integrity of the article, declared, “It is a statement of fact that some of the people who cross the southern border are rapists and murderers.” She demanded to know whether Mak had checked to see if Trump had ever murdered anyone.

Mak stuck to his guns. He said that because Trump is the Republican frontrunner, “He deserves to be looked at, his history should be looked at.” He also noted that, despite the fact that Ivana Trump now denies the events she described in a deposition many years ago – i.e. under oath –  the story is legitimately newsworthy.

MAK: I think what’s important here is that Ivana Trump did make these statements about an incident in 1989 and she acknowledged them again in a book that was published in 1993. We’re simply looking at those facts and I think with his presidential campaign, there’s new relevance to them.

Of course, Fox is still trotting out Clinton accuser Kathleen Willey. And who can forget Hannity's big 2012 "exclusive" that exposed a guy hugged by Obama in 1990? If an accusation about sexual assault were uncovered now about Bill Clinton, the “fair and balanced” network would be obsessing about it 24/7.

Kelly acknowledged that the Daily Beast article originated in sworn testimony but, instead of acknowledging that Ivana was now suggesting she had committed perjury, Kelly gave it a softer description. “It appears she may have softened on this issue over the years,” Kelly said.

Then, more harshly, she continued, “But that doesn’t answer the question about whether your reporting is fair or relevant because, as I pointed out here on the air last night, having practiced law for 10 years, divorce proceedings are notoriously ugly and spouses often – often! – say things that aren’t true and that they later live to regret and how did you account for that reality in your reporting?

Kelly wasn’t asking so much as she was lecturing Mak and treating him like a wayward schoolboy.

Mak said the reporting was relevant for the reasons he already stated and called it fair and factual.

But to her credit, after flashing her Trump-friendly bona fides, Kelly moved on to discuss the thuggish threats from Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen. 

I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we’re in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don’t have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know,” Cohen said. “So I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?”

“You write a story that has Mr. Trump’s name in it, with the word ‘rape,’ and I’m going to mess your life up… for as long as you’re on this frickin’ planet… you’re going to have judgments against you, so much money, you’ll never know how to get out from underneath it,” he added.

Kelly asked Mak for his reaction “to that kind of language and threat from a man directly representing a presidential contender.”

“I think it raises questions about the sorts of people that Donald Trump has surrounded himself with,” Mak replied. Kelly did not challenge the contention.

Kelly also noted that Cohen was “wrong on the facts” and “wrong on the law” when he said, “You cannot rape your spouse.” She read what she described as “a sort of apology” and asked Mak “whether you feel apologized to because he took another shot at you today.”

Here’s how Cohen kinda sorta apologized:

As an attorney, husband and father there are many injustices that offend me but nothing more than charges of rape or racism. They hit me at my core. Rarely am I surprised by the press, but the gall of this particular reporter to make such a reprehensible and false allegation against Mr. Trump truly stunned me. In my moment of shock and anger, I made an inarticulate comment - which I do not believe—and which I apologize for entirely.

Mak said, “You’ll notice he doesn’t actually identify which comment he is actually apologizing for, so I’m not sure what he’s apologizing about. Is he apologizing about the threats? Is he apologizing about his false interpretation of law and spousal rape or is he apologizing for the abuse that he heaped upon The Daily Beast reporters, including myself?”

What I noticed is that he said no injustice offends him more than charges of rape or racism. Not the acts themselves but the charges.

Like Mak said, this speaks volumes about the kind of person Trump surrounds himself with. And while we're on that topic? Trump has said he'd “love” to have Sarah Palin in his administration.

Watch the discussion below, from the July 28 The Kelly File.

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radpat_USA commented 2015-07-29 14:47:16 -0400 · Flag
Elvin B. Ross…. Careful I have been censored here for suggesting the rightwing thugs deserve more than doing nothing more than posting on a political blog as at no time in history has fascist responded to more passive characteristics of democratic processes.
These people will if not stopped they will eventually pose a physical threat to free thinking Americans in every corner of this great country of ours.
Antoinette commented 2015-07-29 14:11:36 -0400 · Flag
What would happen if, for the sake of argument, that an undercover video pops up and reveals that illegal immigrants are working at Trumpster’s properties? The GOP is desperate to get rid of the man, and the saying goes, desperate people do desperate things.
Antoinette commented 2015-07-29 14:05:02 -0400 · Flag
Jake, Brave New Films addressed the issue of African Americans and jobs. Watch this film and see why young African Americans don’t get hired https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTcSVQJ2h8g
jake hewitt commented 2015-07-29 11:12:38 -0400 · Flag
Black Lives Matter. Black Jobs – not so much! I wish all my fellow progressives here would take a step back and ask themselves if, regardless of their nativist motives, Trump and his supporters may be right on the ultimate issue. Coretta Scott King worried about the effect of glutting the workforce would have on African-Americans, and her fears have been born out. Jobs that were cliche – sometimes racist cliche – for young African-Americans trying to escape poverty (nanny, fast food worker, janitor) are now dominated by immigrants from Mexico, Central America and Eastern Europe. Young African-American unemployment is at third world levels. Is it possible the Koch Brothers and Grover Norquist have the 1% in mind and not love for mankind when they pour millions of dollars into passing immigration “reform” that grants legal status to millions?
Jan Hall commented 2015-07-29 09:49:40 -0400 · Flag
Meg should do a segment on Hair. Call it BLACK ROOTS MATTER.
w d commented 2015-07-29 09:36:39 -0400 · Flag
She’s right. Some Mexicans are rapists and murderers.

And guess what else, Kelly? Some babes are pedophiles and have sex with teenage boys.

Does that mean we condemn ALL BABES?

Well, does it —?
El 84 commented 2015-07-29 09:21:02 -0400 · Flag
And a hidden legacy of S.M. Barrett.
El 84 commented 2015-07-29 09:19:23 -0400 · Flag
Google Sucks decided to somehow auto-think and insert the words, “the best”, and I am faster than this Android p.o.s. It is just supposed to read, " because 90%…". (Yes, I will post the video of this g.p.o.s at the end of this billing period getting smashed by a sledge hammer. Sucks.)
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Rabbit and Fox
El 84 commented 2015-07-29 09:12:48 -0400 · Flag
Fox will continue to thrive until lazy liberals get off their asses and assault Fox’s fallacies. I don’t even follow Media Matters any more, because the best 90% of the followers can’t and won’t do more than say Bill O’Reilly lies.
El 84
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NewsHounds posted about Megyn Kelly Tells Daily Beast Reporter: It’s ‘A Statement Of Fact’ That Some Mexicans Are Rapists And Murderers on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2015-07-29 09:00:11 -0400
Even when Kelly sympathizes with a reporter threatened by Trump's lawyer, she makes sure to validate Trump's racism.








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