Donald Trump Stands By Megyn Kelly Comments After Losing Top Campaign Adviser Roger Stone

Donald Trump stood by his comments about Megyn Kelly and denied his campaign was in trouble following the loss of advisor Roger Stone during an appearance on Meet the Press.

Donald Trump Stands By Megyn Kelly Comment

Trump called into the NBC Sunday morning show to discuss his latest controversy following Thursday’s GOP Debate. Following the Fox News debate, Trump criticized moderator and Fox News host Megyn Kelly for her question about his past sexist comments, saying that she had “blood coming out of her wherever.” The comments immediately went viral, with most interpreting them as a thinly veiled sexist attack, and caused him to be disinvited from the RedState Gathering this weekend.

When asked if Trump wanted to apologize for his comments, the Presidential hopeful said he did not, saying that “only a deviant” would see his comment as offensive. Trump insisted that he meant to say that Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes and blood coming out of her nose,” an explanation he previously provided on his Twitter account.

“All I said was there was blood pouring out of her eyes and there was blood. And then I said, you know what, I’m going to get on to the next sentence because frankly I don’t have to talk about the blood coming out of her ears and her nose. It’s a very common statement,” Trump told Meet the Press.

According to an e-mail obtained by Politico allegedly written by Stone, Trump’s advisor felt that, although he supported Trump’s message to ‘Make America Great Again,’ he had to leave the campaign due to the media circus created by Trump’s outlandish comments.

“Unfortunately, the current controversies involving personalities and provocative media fights have reached such a high volume that it has distracted attention from your platform and overwhelmed your core message. With this current direction of the candidacy, I no longer can remain involved in your campaign,” wrote Stone.

Meanwhile, Trump has been making the media rounds and is attempting to turn his image with women around by attacking Jeb Bush’s recent flub against women. When speaking about Planned Parenthood, Bush offered this offensive take on government funding for Planned Parenthood: “I’m not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women’s health programs.” Bush later acknowledged his error in a statement, claiming that he “misspoke” and meant to question the funding for Planned Parenthood specifically, not “women’s health programs.”

When asked about Bush’s statements calling Trump to apologize to Kelly, Trump told CNN that Bush was being hypocritical and likened Bush’s flub to Mitt Romney’s infamous “47%” video.