On the heels of nailing former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) on Iraq last week, Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Wednesday grilled Donald Trump on his famously high-volume Twitter feed.
First up, she asked the real estate mogul and perennial presidential candidate about his response to the deadly Amtrak crash last week.
“You started tweeting out about infrastructure,” Kelly said, “talking about how you know how to build things, which is obviously true.”
“It is true,” Trump interjected.
“But you can’t blame the crash on infrastructure. The crash appears to be the fault of the driver,” she said.
Trump said that a better infrastructure could have prevented an engineer from pushing the train into a dangerous speed in the first place.
Kelly moved on to an issue on which she has broken from several of her colleagues: the antics of anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller, whose recent contest to draw the Prophet Muhammad ended in bloodshed when two gunmen were killed trying to storm the Texas event.
Trump criticized Geller at the time, calling her “dumb.” He said he felt no different on Wednesday night.
“I think that Pam Geller is a terrible messenger,” he told Kelly. “We have enough problems.”
Kelly pressured Trump, asking what his criticism meant for free speech, as well as “what we stand for as Americans.”
“I’m not the only conservative Republican that feels this way,” Trump said.
Watch the clip, courtesy of Fox News:
