Fox News host Megyn Kelly says one of the "lowest points" of her year was when her 5-year-old daughter asked her what a "bimbo" was. Donald Trump, then still a candidate for president, had reposted a tweet in which Kelly was called a "bimbo" and also published a tweet himself insisting that he would not "call Megyn Kelly a bimbo because that would not be politically correct."
Trump's tweeting followed the first Republican presidential primary debate, during which Kelly hit Trump with a tough question about his lewd remarks about women. Kelly said her daughter attended the debate. "That's when she told me she was afraid of Donald Trump," Kelly said. "I had never revealed to her any of the things that Trump had done. But she is five, and she hears things in this world."
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