Kelly planned to ask then-candidate Trump about his insulting comments about women. “The day before the first presidential debate,” according to Senior, “Mr. Trump was in a lather again, Ms. Kelly writes. He called Fox executives, saying he’d heard that her first question ‘was a very pointed question directed at him.’” This question, while pointed at the time, was nearly a year before The Washington Post published a 2005 tape in which Trump was heard bragging about sexually assaulting women. It was also about a year before Kelly’s boss was removed from Fox News amid mounting sexual harassment claims. And she asked the question even before multiple women came forward accusing Trump of sexual assault and unwanted sexual advances.