Trump Will Do CNN Debate, Even Without $5M Paycheck

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
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Donald Trump announced Thursday he won’t skip CNN’s Republican presidential debate after all.

The presidential contender told the Washington Post “When you’re leading in the polls, I think it’s too big of a risk to not do the debate.”

“I don’t want to take the chance of hurting my campaign. So I’ll do the debate,” Trump said according to the Post.

Trump said that while he was reluctant, he was not about to let fellow Republican candidates attack him for not showing up.

“Every single person doing the debate would knock the hell out of me and say I’m afraid to be there,” Trump told the Washington Post. “The one thing I’m not in life is a chicken.”

Trump had suggested he might just not to show up for the Dec. 15 debate unless CNN handed him $5 million. Trump argued he’d helped with the station’s ratings, but that they had covered him unfairly.

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  1. Avatar for msny msny says:

    CNN to Trump: “What makes you think, you’re still invited?”*

    *- (me wishing)

  2. awesome! So, another couple of hours of him saying nothing, and his supporters eating it up. Fantastic! I can think of hundreds of things I’d rather do than watch this–

    #21-remove my own kidneys.

  3. “Ya know, I dont - it doesn’t matter to me. It doesnt me matter to me - I don’t, Ya know I say stuff and maybe it works but If people don’t understand I have to forgive 'em. I just say what i want and yea it’d be great to get fi. er give five millions to vets and such because without me they really don’t have a show ya know , so without my ratings they’re sunk right I mean with all due respect people aren’t tuning in to see Jim Gilmore ya know…”

  4. Holy CRAP you do Hair tRump really well! Doesn’t that scare the hell out of you?

    LOL!

  5. Well look at the big tough hardass genius negotiator, gonna make everybody do this and do that! Slinking into that studio like his mom called him in to dinner and I mean right now mister! You just say “no” to the guy and he climbs down just like that. He won’t go through with that threat he made because why? He’s too brave to do it, that’s why! Love this guy, I really do. A big Nelson Muntz “ha-ha” for you, Donella! Everybody point and laugh!

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