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Megyn Kelly denies Trump got debate questions in advance

by Harper Neidig - 11/11/16 8:43 AM ET

Fox News host Megyn Kelly is denying that her new tell-all book suggests President-elect Donald Trump got debate questions in advance.

“For the record, my book ‘Settle for More’ does not suggest Trump had any debate Qs in advance, nor do I believe that he did,” Kelly tweeted shortly before midnight Thursday.

For the record, my book “Settle for More” does not suggest Trump had any debate Qs in advance, nor do I believe that he did.

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 11, 2016

{mosads}A New York Times review of Kelly’s new book “Settle For More” detailed a passage where Kelly wrote that Trump angrily called Fox executives the day before the first GOP presidential primary debate, saying he had heard that her first question was “a very pointed question directed at him.”

Kelly would go on to ask Trump about his history of using disparaging language about women, kicking off a feud between the two.

Trump repeatedly criticized Hillary Clinton after leaked emails showed her appearing to receive debate and town hall questions in advance from Democratic National Committee interim head Donna Brazile. And Kelly herself grilled Brazile about it on her show “The Kelly File.”

The Times review also said that Kelly suggested in the book that she may have been poisoned before the debate. She wrote that she became violently ill after drinking coffee that an overzealous Fox News driver insisted on getting her.

Kelly pushed back on that point as well.

“Also for the record, I believe the reason I got sick the day of the first debate was I contracted a stomach virus, just as Rand Paul did,” she tweeted.

Also for the record, I believe the reason I got sick the day of the first debate was I contracted a stomach virus, just as Rand Paul did.

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 11, 2016