Donald Trump Will Be Skipping Megyn Kelly’s Two-Hour Special In Houston

FILE - This file photo combination made from Aug. 6, 2015, photos shows Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, and Fox News Channel host and moderator Megyn Kelly during the first Republican presidenti... FILE - This file photo combination made from Aug. 6, 2015, photos shows Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, and Fox News Channel host and moderator Megyn Kelly during the first Republican presidential debate at the Quicken Loans Arena, in Cleveland. Trump isn’t backing down from his threat to boycott Thursday night’s GOP debate. Trump, who has called Kelly a “lightweight” and biased, told reporters at an Iowa press conference Wednesday night that he would be holding a fundraising event in Iowa at the same time as the debate to benefit veterans and wounded soldiers instead. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) MORE LESS
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In a change of pace, Donald Trump very politely turned down the invitation to attend Megyn Kelly’s two-hour special, called “The Kelly File: Face to Face with Candidates,” on Wednesday in Houston, Texas.

“The campaign has a previous engagement in Virginia and then New York, which could not be rescheduled. Given this was just proposed at the last minute it was not possible to change our plans in order to attend. Mr. Trump looks forward to participating in the next FOX News debate,” Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks wrote in an email to CNN on Monday evening.

Kelly affirmed the polite decline on Twitter on Monday.

There is also a Republican presidential debate hosted by CNN on Thursday at the University of Houston. Trump will attend the Texas debate as well the Fox News debate in Detroit on March 3.

Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson will be interviewed by Kelly either in-person or via satellite at Wednesday’s voter summit. It airs at 9 p.m. ET.

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  1. I wonder what it’s like, being someone that has special attention drawn to the fact you were polite during an interaction of some sort.

    “He didn’t even spit on me!”
    “I wasn’t told to fuck off!”
    “Can you believe he said please and thank you?”

  2. It’s funny that Kelly is running out of candidates to talk to. With only Rubio and Cruz left to her and zero chance of Sanders and Clinton ever appearing on her show, the next one to drop out leaves her with a whopping one candidate to talk to for the next 10 months!

  3. Hey. Megyn’s bleeding out. Thankfully, tRump has said “There won’t be anybody dieing on the streets” when he’s POTUS.

    I suspect, if you quizzed his ex-wives, they would all say: He’s a man of his word.

  4. “Thank you Joe. And Mika. You’re very classy.”

  5. A " voter summit " with no voters ?

    Typical of Fox speak

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