Laura Ingraham Bashes Reports From Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy as ‘Fake News’
Laura Ingraham appeared on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning to deride reports from Newsmax CEO and Trump confidante Chris Ruddy that the president is considering terminating special counsel Robert Mueller.
Ruddy appeared on PBS Monday night to reveal that President Donald Trump may be looking to fire Mueller, who is conducting the investigation into the president’s campaign ties to Russia.
Press secretary Sean Spicer pushed back on Ruddy’s comments, noting in a statement that the CEO of conservative website Newsmax did not speak to President Trump on a recent White House visit — though Ruddy never contended that he did, and Spicer did not refute that the president was considering firing Mueller.
Ingraham, however, was unconvinced by her fellow right wing commentator’s comments. Responding to the report on Fox & Friends, Ingraham said defiantly that “this is fake news.”
“This is an example of the establishment media being agenda driven, to drive the president out of office, and being lazy, and being stupid,” Ingraham continued. “So that’s an evil triple of a threat against objectivity in the media.”
It’s not clear how Ruddy’s contention that Trump is considering firing Mueller is “fake news,” nor why Ingraham thinks that Newsmax is part of the “establishment media.”
Ingraham did note that Ruddy is a friend of hers, and noted that she thought he would clarify his comments later on Tuesday.
“Isn’t it incumbent upon the American media to kinda chase it down, and to verify whether that’s true?” Ingraham said. “No they didn’t do that, because they want to drive the president out of office.”
CNN (which, along with pretty much every mainstream media outlet, has been chasing the story down since Ruddy’s comments) reported Tuesday that Trump is “being counseled to steer clear of such a dramatic move like firing the special counsel.”
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