It was inevitable because it is strategically brilliant, and no-one knows how to position leverage better than the current republican frontrunner Donald Trump. Megyn Kelly will interview Donald Trump on May 17th for a special Fox event.
However, before reviewing the upcoming interview dynamics, and the strategic timing therein, it’s helpful to consider the entire political landscape as it relates to the uprising of common sense Americans and the abject disconnect from the professional political class.
Many readers have shared and discussed an issue that will now become of greater visibility. The “anti-Trump” media coalition (group 3 from previous discussion) were so caught up in the rapture and blood-lust to tear down Donald Trump they failed to pause and consider the extreme position they were taking.
If their efforts failed, and if Donald Trump -with the larger electorate behind him- succeeded in his quest, how could anti-Trump professional punditry ever walk back their most vitriolic and hate-filled statements? The short answer is, they can’t.
This dynamic sets the stage for the anti-trump coalition to be cast aside as irrelevant and inconsequential gnats. However, along with their irrelevance, they also lose their influence and connected affluence.
Most of them were so ideologically caught up in the rabidity of the movement, they never paused and thought through the scope of consequence.
As a direct result the voices of people like: Mark Levin, Steven Hayes, Bill Kristol, Kevin Williamson, Chris Stirewalt, Glenn Beck, Frank Luntz, Dana Loesch, Rich Lowry, George Will, Jonah Goldberg and many more, are brutally irrelevant.
In addition to several dozen formerly readable websites and new media, these collectivist careers of professional punditry are now sinking rapidly in the wake of their failed ideological kamikaze mission.
Senator Ted Cruz will still be a senator, Jeb Bush will still be a silver-spooner, Mitt Romney will still be a multi-millionaire, but all of those pundits will never be able to regain their status and/or credibility because they have been laid naked to their enemies – and their enemies are us, their former audience.
Fox’s Roger Ailes knows and understands this dynamic very well. So too does the only Samson-like adversary that Ailes has ever faced, Donald Trump. ~SEE HERE~
Back in July 2015 we first noticed how Megyn Kelly was positioning herself as it relates to the candidacy of Donald Trump. In the preceding year Ms. Kelly had been orbiting a circle of modern ideological feminism that was luring her ever closer with fawning praise.
The warning signs were flashing overdrive on the night of Thursday July 30th 2015 when we warned:
CTH WARNING – July 2015 […] Megyn Kelly announced last night she has a scheduled interview with Donald Trump on Monday August 3rd. Two days earlier Megyn Kelly interrupted her FOX News broadcast live to deliver the BREAKING Daily Beast article attack about Trump and ridiculous rape allegations.
Do you remember the New Hampshire GOP debate when ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Mitt Romney if states had the constitutional right to ban contraception and the entire watching audience went “huh”?…. Only to see the Sandra Fluke/Democrat war on women mantra ‘coincidentally’ begin a month later…. yeah, remember that? (Watch it Again)
Similarly Ms. Kelly didn’t appear to want to drop the ‘Trump-is-a-rapist’ issue when she led off her show the following evening with discussion about Trump’s attorney and his controversial remarks in response.
It would appear Kelly has an interest in spotlighting Trump around an inferred position of sexism. This is transparently not accidental.
Kelly has a history of self-promotion by making herself the story inside the story, as she did with Jeb Bush and the interview segment: “knowing what you know now, was it a mistake to go into Iraq”? etc. Megyn Kelly enjoys being the center hub amid the wheels of divisive interests.
Trump would be well advised to avoid that Monday interview like the plague. (link)
The dates discussed above were the week just prior to the August Fox debate. Donald Trump wisely cancelled the Monday August 3rd interview, which from all appearances was the planned Megyn Kelly set up interview for the debate night ambush on Thursday Aug 6th.
What Ms. Kelly didn’t recognize -due to the echo chamber effect- was how transparent she was at the time; and because she never recognized her own transparency she failed to see how a significant portion of the audience were tuned-in (pre-debate), and able to predict what followed. Part of that lead-up audience was Donald Trump.
After the August 6th debate fiasco Kelly assumed the ‘too-cute-by-half-shtick’ and stood relishing in the publicity from it. However she never connected the backlash to her earlier transparency of motive. Again, this is what happens when you surround yourself with sycophants and live in an echo chamber of idolatry.
Kelly tweet above just prior to Donald Trump cancelling the second Fox Debate and avoiding the pre-Iowa ambush.
Having lost her father at age 16, the need for constant affirmation psychology of Megyn Kelly is also predictable. Her connection to Roger Ailes as a young woman searching for a meaningful career was more paternal than professional. She needs the praise, regardless of its origin, because there is a very large hole to be filled. This is not unusual, actually it’s quite common amid girls who lose their fathers in their teens.
In the months that followed the debate, Megyn used her natural passive aggressive skillset to mount a counter attack against her detractor, Donald Trump. Kelly allowed every member of the anti-Trump movement (outlined and listed above) full use of her TV show to rail against the man who slighted her. Notorious Trump-Haters (Rich Lowry, Glenn Beck, Stuart Stevens etc. ) were booked on her show every night and given free reign.
It is also important to remember that Donald Trump is fully aware of the framework behind everything stated above. He too watched it play out nightly. In addition he knows how to read people, and he knows how to use their needs to his own benefit.
Trump is positioned quite brilliantly in this current scenario. Since Kelly went to Trump Tower two weeks ago she has not used her broadcast the same way. You can be guaranteed something along the lines of “I’ll wait and see what you do” was the parting essence behind the words of Donald Trump toward Ms. Kelly.
Kelly needs Trump far more than Trump needs Kelly. Trump holds the leverage. And now he’s guaranteed at least three more weeks, important weeks, during this election cycle when Megyn Kelly wouldn’t dare attack or disparage him – lest she fear he back out of the interview she needs, and he doesn’t.
Megyn Kelly last week