Stephanie Ruhle Praises Trump’s Availability After Calling Him For an Interview — Jokes ‘He Told Me to Go F*ck Myself’
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle describes Donald Trump as approachable, in contrast to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris:
Stephanie Ruhle: “The day after, after Donald Trump had that crazy rally at Madison Square Garden. I rolled the dice and I called him on the phone and he answered.
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MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle praised President-elect Donald Trump for being directly accessible to journalists during the presidential election in contrast to the difficult process of reaching out across bureaucratic barriers to Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.
The personal anecdote came as Ruhle sat down for an interview with Lukas Thimm for his live late-night talk show So Many Issues.
During a portion of the conversation on the election, Ruhle revealed how, following Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York in October, she could reach out to the candidate directly to request an interview and seek comment.
I rolled the dice and I called him on the phone and he answered… I wasn’t calling to chit-chat. I said, ‘Mr. President, this is Stephanie Ruhle, you made a lot of comments last night,’ blah-blah-blah. It was not an on-the-record conversation, so I’m not going to get into what he said. But I called for one reason. I said, ‘You just said a whole bunch of public things. I’d like to sit down for an interview with you. We’ve got five days before the election.’ So we didn’t get anything, there’s nothing for me to report. I called, I said I want an interview. Obviously, he said no.
She continued to contrast her access to Trump with the complicated nature of reaching out to Harris or President Joe Biden.
But my point is, I was able to get to him by dialing his phone. Now that might be completely apeshit and you’re like, ‘I can’t believe people know this guy’s phone number,’ but the reverse of that, if I were to want to connect with VP Harris or President Biden, there’s 50 people between me and that. I could write a note that maybe could get to somebody to get somebody, then through Pony Express and a pigeon something might end up in a mailbox near them.
And I called DJT to say, ‘Yo, can I get an interview?’ And he told me to go fuck myself, but I still was able to connect with him.
Ruhle’s anecdote seemed to play to an adoring crowd that laughed at her likely hyperbole, suggesting that Trump did not necessarily use those precise words with her. Or maybe he did?
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