{"id":185040,"date":"2016-01-27T19:09:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T19:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=185040"},"modified":"2016-01-27T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T19:09:58","slug":"fox-news-fires-back-at-trump-over-debate-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=185040","title":{"rendered":"Fox News fires back at Trump over debate boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fox News has fired back at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for his refusal to participate in their debate on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The network said in a statement that Mr Trump&#8217;s decision is &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; and rooted in his dislike for one of the debate hosts, Megyn Kelly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Trump clashed with Ms Kelly at a Fox News debate last year and had demanded she be removed from Thursday&#8217;s panel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His decision to pull out has been mocked by his Republican rivals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The debate is the final one before the first real test of the election campaign, the Iowa caucus on Monday when voters in the state pick their presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Capitulating to politicians&#8217; ultimatums about a debate moderator violates all journalistic standards, as do threats,&#8221; the Fox News network said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News has fired back at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for his refusal to participate in their debate on Thursday night. The network said in a statement that Mr Trump&#8217;s decision is &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; and rooted in his dislike for one of the debate hosts, Megyn Kelly. Mr Trump clashed with Ms Kelly at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}