Megyn Kelly says she called a truce with Donald Trump so the presumptive GOP presidential nominee would stop publicly insulting her.
“I just wanted to stop,” she said in this week’s issue of People. “You’d get past an incident and then it would start again. It was really shocking.
{mosads}“The hate can be very ugly and it can be threatening and it can be off-putting when you’re walking around the city with your kids in particular,” the Fox News anchor added.
Kelly outraged Trump during the first GOP presidential debate last August by sharply questioning him about his past remarks about various women.
Trump responded by attacking Kelly’s credibility as a journalist, sparking a months-long spat between the pair. He also skipped a Fox News debate Kelly co-hosted in January, eventually appearing for a March debate during which he treated her cordially.
Kelly then met with Trump privately in New York last month in a meeting brokered by Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes.
Their huddle proved productive, and Trump recently sat down for an interview with Kelly that is set to air next week on the Fox broadcast network.
Kelly told People magazine that tensions had to cool after the debate before the two could bury the hatchet.
“I knew all along that if there could be a period of calm on his part, that I could go and approach him and we could get to a better place,” she said.
“I think the most electric moment will be when I ask him about this past year and what’s happened between the two of us,” “The Kelly File” host added of her upcoming chat with Trump. “It’s one thing to have somebody ask him about what he’s done and it’s quite another to have me ask him. I think people want to see that.”
Kelly’s highly anticipated discussion with Trump is scheduled to air next Tuesday. Previews of the segment show Trump praising Kelly’s courage by reaching out to him.
“I have great respect for you to call me and say, ‘Let’s get together, let’s talk,’” Trump said in an excerpt released Monday. “To me, I would not have done that.”