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Megyn Kelly’s much-anticipated Donald Trump interview: fair or just plain wimpy?

By Matt Naham
May 18, 2016

Fox News' Megyn Kelly and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sat down for the first time since the now-infamous first Republican debate on Fox News, which sparked a messy, well-documented feud.

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Kelly began the interview by saying, “It’s been a long nine months” and thanked Trump for sitting down. Trump said “it was [his] honor” to do so.

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This opening set the tone for what, to some, was a “wimpy” interview. To others, this was the kind of fairness Kelly should have displayed in the first debate.

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Trump, who live-tweeted during the taped interview, picked up on one tweet critical of the interview's "therapy session" tone. Other tweets expressed a similar opinion.

Others thought Kelly did a great job.

Meanwhile, others were pleased that the two had mended bridges.

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