The Trump campaign has hit some Trump inflicted turbulance….
Will he slide thru this untouched?
Fallout from a crude attack on Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and the departure of a top political adviser roiled Donald Trump’s campaign Saturday, leading Republicans to question whether the laws of political gravity have finally caught up with the real estate mogul.
Trump’s insinuation Friday night that Kelly’s tough questioning during Thursday’s debate was a result of her menstruating — an assertion that followed a series of other attacks on the popular Kelly — left many wondering whether he could weather the latest controversy and remain in the race, even as his campaign continued to act as if nothing was amiss.
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Despite widespread condemnation — and getting disinvited from the RedState gathering of conservative activists in Atlanta following the Kelly comment — Trump’s campaign continued to take a combative tone Saturday.
“Mr. Trump made Megyn Kelly look really bad — she was a mess with her anger and totally caught off guard. Mr. Trump said ‘blood was coming out of her eyes and whatever’ meaning nose, but wanted to move on to more important topics. Only a deviant would think anything else,” the campaign said in a statement.
The campaign also attacked Erick Erickson, the prominent conservative activist and RedState founder, as “a total loser.”
Still, the aura of crisis became unmistakable with the news Saturday that Trump’s long-serving adviser Roger Stone, a former Richard Nixon campaign staffer and acknowledged political “dirty trickster,” was no longer working working for Trump.
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