Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday night lashed out at Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly in his first appearance on the network since he announced he’d boycott the next GOP debate.



He also refused to reconsider his decision to sit out the network’s Thursday night debate – the last before the Iowa caucuses in five days – and said he’d move forward with his own competing event to raise money for wounded veterans.



Speaking on “The O’Reilly Factor,” Trump continued his long-running feud with Kelly, who he has been criticizing ever since she challenged him on his past derogatory remarks about women at the first GOP debate in August.



“I have zero respect for Megyn Kelly,” Trump said. “I don’t think she’s good at what she does and I think she’s highly overrated. And frankly, she’s a moderator; I thought her question last time was ridiculous.”



Kelly is also set to moderate Thursday night’s debate on Fox News.



Trump is instead holding a rally in Des Moines at the same time as the Republican debate that he says will raise money for wounded veterans.



In the contentious interview with O’Reilly, Trump rebuffed the anchor’s attempts to convince him that he’s making a grave error by skipping the debate.



“I believe personally that you want to improve the country,” O’Reilly said. “By doing this, you miss the opportunity to convince others … that is true.



“You have in this debate format the upper hand — you have sixty seconds off the top to tell the moderator, ‘You’re a pinhead, you’re off the mark and here’s what I want to say’. By walking away from it, you lose the opportunity to persuade people you are a strong leader.”

Trump has Fox and O'Reilly reduced to the state of a teenage girl begging the boyfriend who just dumped her to please, please, please justYeah, that's the thing, Bill. By walking away, Donald Trump IS persuading people that he is a strong leader, one who isn't beholden to the media. Walking away is Alpha. Supplication, especially to a woman , is Delta-Gamma.Just the fact that Trump is willing to publicly dismiss the overrated Kelly as being "highly overrated" should be enough reason to consider voting for the man. Not even Reagan was that bold in dismissing the media or the progressive sex.

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