Fox News slammed Republican frontrunner Donald Trump Friday night for his “sick obsession” with host Megyn Kelly after the real estate mogul called on supporters to boycott her evening news show.
A Fox News spokesperson said Trump’s “vitriolic attacks” on Kelly are undignified from a candidate running for the for the nation’s highest office.
“Donald Trump’s vitriolic attacks against Megyn Kelly and his extreme, sick obsession with her is beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate who wants to occupy the highest office in the land,” the spokesperson said in a statement provided to TPM.
Trump’s one-sided feud with Kelly dates back to the first Republican debate hosted by Fox News last summer, when the freshly minted presidential candidate took issue with Kelly’s line of questioning.
After that, Trump for weeks lobbed insults at Kelly, insulating the Fox News host must’ve been menstruating during the debate and calling her a “bimbo.”
Here’s the full statement from Fox News, provided to TPM:
Donald Trump’s vitriolic attacks against Megyn Kelly and his extreme, sick obsession with her is beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate who wants to occupy the highest office in the land. Megyn is an exemplary journalist and one of the leading anchors in America — we’re extremely proud of her phenomenal work and continue to fully support her throughout every day of Trump’s endless barrage of crude and sexist verbal assaults. As the mother of three young children, with a successful law career and the second highest rated show in cable news, it’s especially deplorable for her to be repeatedly abused just for doing her job
