Megyn Kelly CONFIRMS Trump ‘Threatened’ Her Before Infamous First GOP Debate (VIDEO)

It was the first Republican Debate and Megyn Kelly was ready to moderate all 17 Republican candidates at the time. The night is often remembered for Kelly asking Trump about his treatment of women in the past. Things got heated, and now Megyn Kelly is finally opening up about the story behind it all.

Kelly appeared on The Dr. Phil Show and talked about the incident for the first time ever. It appears to have all started for an interview that Kelly did on her Fox News show, The Kelly File. She interviewed Harry Hunt, the author of Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, four days before the debate.

During that interview, Kelly questioned Hunt on his book and the accusations that Trump’s first wife, Ivana Trump, accused Trump of raping her. The claims were made during their divorce hearing.

Kelly said to Dr. Phil that is was normal to lie in divorce proceedings, so she was questioning the validity of those claims.

Apparently Trump didn’t even like Hunt being on Kelly’s show, especially so close to the first debate. This is where Trump showed his charismatic side, as Kelly said:

“He called me up and threatened me and made very clear to me that he was extremely displeased. I told him flat-out ‘Mr Trump, I’m sorry that you are unhappy, but you don’t control the editorial on the Kelly File.’ And that was it: He started screaming at me; he hung-up the phone… and the next time we met was that Thursday night.”

Well, that makes that debate night even more awkward, right? One of the first questions of the night went to Trump from Kelly and she asked about his treatment of women and calling them names.

This lead to Kelly being on Trump’s radar the rest of the election, and it started the following day when he appeared on CNN and told Don Lemon:

“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever.”

This lead to a long feud between the two and Kelly talks about it in her new book, Settle for More. She never revealed in the interview how Trump threatened her, but maybe that part is in the book.

You can get a snippet of her interview with Dr. Phil right here:

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