The front-runner in a record-breaking field of 17 [[Republican]] candidates, Trump announced that he did anticipate "throwing punches" against his rivals in the first GOP debate.<ref>http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/02/us-usa-election-debate-idUSKCN0Q70NI20150802</ref> But at the debate the [[Fox News Channel]] -- particularly its [[feminist]] non-journalist [[Megyn Kelly]] -- ambushed Trump with out-of-context quotations designed to smear him as somehow being anti-women. This ignited a national controversy that lasted for days, and Trump called upon Kelly to apologize. | The front-runner in a record-breaking field of 17 [[Republican]] candidates, Trump announced that he did anticipate "throwing punches" against his rivals in the first GOP debate.<ref>http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/02/us-usa-election-debate-idUSKCN0Q70NI20150802</ref> But at the debate the [[Fox News Channel]] -- particularly its [[feminist]] non-journalist [[Megyn Kelly]] -- ambushed Trump with out-of-context quotations designed to smear him as somehow being anti-women. This ignited a national controversy that lasted for days, and Trump called upon Kelly to apologize. |