Fox News Mocks After Trump Threatens To Skip Debate Because Megyn Kelly Has A Bloody Wherever

For the last few days Donald Trump has been escalating his demand that Megyn Kelly be removed as moderator of the coming Fox News debate due to her extreme bias in being a journalist. This afternoon Trump even launched a poll on Twitter, asking supporters if he should boycott. (Respondents split evenly.)

Tonight Fox reacted with a snarky press release:

“We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president — a nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings.”

That was followed up with a statement from Fox News CEO Roger Ailes himself: “Megyn Kelly is an excellent journalist and the entire network stands behind her — she will absolutely be on the debate stage on Thursday night.”

UPDATE: Trump campaign spokeswoman Evileena Pierson just announced that he will definitely boycott the debate.