Donald Trump sticks to guns over ‘blood’ remark

The real estate mogul said he did “nothing wrong whatsoever” by criticising Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, and only a sick person would say that his remark on “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her - wherever” during Thursday night’s debate meant she was having her period.

“Who would say that?” Trump said. “Do you think I’d make a statement like that? Who would make a statement like that? Only a sick person would even think about that.”

“I cherish women,” he said, but offered no apology for his remark about Kelly a day after the debate and blamed his Republican presidential opponents for fanning the flames of controversy, and claimed that he meant to refer to her “nose and/or ears” –not a woman’s period.

“Only a deviant would say that what I said was what they were referring to. Because nobody would 

make that statement. You almost have to be sick to put that together,” he said, repeating his earlier defence of the remark.

Trump, who is currently leading the crowded field of 17 Republican presidential national polls including long shot Indian-American Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, roiled the party establishment with his explosive remarks during the debate and refusing to rule out an independent run in case he was not the nominee.