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DonViejo

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Sat Aug 8, 2015, 09:34 AM Aug 2015

Donald Trump’s Gross History of Misogyny: From Rosie O’Donnell to Megyn Kelly

Marlow Stern

The GOP presidential frontrunner has come under fire for a series of sexist comments he’s made towards Fox News host Megyn Kelly. But Trump’s women-bashing goes back decades.

If you’ve ever fancied seeing a dais of ten adult men who looked as if they’d been clothed by their mothers cower under the pressure of a confident, brash, and brilliant woman brimming with agency, then Thursday night’s opening round of televised GOP presidential debates was for you.

An astounding 24 million viewers tuned in to the two-hour carnival of chest-thumping and let’s make America great again nebulosities, presided over by a talking turtle, the spawn of Tan Mom, and Fox News superstar Megyn Kelly, who proved to be the Ronda Rousey of questioning, hammering the White House hopefuls on their most glaring weaknesses.
And Kelly reserved her biggest swing for Donald Trump, the bombastic, elaborately coiffed real estate mogul currently topping the polls:

“You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals. Your Twitter account has several—”

Trump then interrupted Kelly, raised his finger in the air like a bloated, illegal immigrant-hating E.T., and with a smirk replied, “Only Rosie O’Donnell.”

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Donald Trump’s Gross History of Misogyny: From Rosie O’Donnell to Megyn Kelly (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2015 OP
How about we start with his first wife that he sexually assaulted? Happyhippychick Aug 2015 #1
Let's not portray Kelly as some kind of a hero Tommy2Tone Aug 2015 #2

Tommy2Tone

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2. Let's not portray Kelly as some kind of a hero
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 01:52 PM
Aug 2015

She is part of the evil empire and as such she is fair game.





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