.@megynkelly: @realDonaldTrump threatened me https://t.co/UYpqI3w42L https://t.co/wbtTdiNnZZ
— CNN (@CNN) November 17, 2016
As the release date for her new memoir, Settle For More, comes closer, Megyn Kelly is coming out swinging against men who want to drag her through the mud. On Wednesday’s edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Kelly opened up about the threats that Donald Trump made to her following her debate question regarding his treatment of women. Kelly claims that his following comments were a “veiled threat” and following his “blood coming out of wherever” comments, all hell broke loose, prompting her to increase her security for a full year.
“We had security guards the whole year. The threat level got so high that it was impossible not to take that seriously. It’s not like I was walking around actively believing that someone was going to necessarily try something, but it was high enough that we had to take it seriously.”
.@megynkelly speaks out: “We had security guards the whole year… the threat level just got so high” https://t.co/odrM1XahtH
— CNN (@CNN) November 17, 2016
To their credit, Fox News did reach out to the Trump campaign, telling them that it would not be good for them if something happened to Kelly. When questioned about whether or not she should have released the information that she has in her book prior to the election, potentially swaying some voters from supporting Trump, Kelly claims that it wouldn’t have made much difference if the Access Hollywood tapes, Trump’s treatment of the Khan family and Judge Curiel, and the other claims leveled at Trump hadn’t. She also explains that she didn’t want to be the story anymore when the focus should have been on Trump’s behavior.
“I didn’t want to make it any more about me. Trump kept trying to make the story about me, and the story was about him, and ultimately Hillary Clinton, but in the early days it was about him and the other Republicans… I felt like a human being that had been dropped into a shark tank, and there were passersby looking in, slightly horrified at what was going on, and all I wanted to do last year was get myself out of the shark tank.”
.@megynkelly: “I felt like a human being who had been dropped into a shark tank… I didn’t want to be the story” https://t.co/igy8FTNynA
— CNN (@CNN) November 17, 2016
Kelly also continued to expose her former boss, Roger Ailes, and Fox News’ culture, claiming that Ailes “had loyalists placed throughout the company and he demanded loyalty”, which she claims “created the problem we had for some time.”
(Via CNN)