Outnumbered Host Accuses Stephanie Ruhle of Deliberately Trying to ‘Stir Division’ in Trump Admin

Over the past two days, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle has passionately defended a report to which she contributed, claiming Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called President Donald Trump a “f*cking moron.” Ruhle flatly denied Trump’s charge that the report is fake news, and stood by her work. Now, one rival host is accusing Ruhle of purposefully attempting to create discord in the White House.

Outnumbered host Rachel Campos-Duffy said that she couldn’t speak to the veracity of Ruhle’s “moron” report, but she is confident she knows the MSNBC’s anchor’s motivation.

“What you can say about Stephanie Ruhle, and what you can also say about the networks that she works for, is that they are trying to stir division within the administration,” Campos-Duffy declared. “It’s clearly a point of something they’re trying to do. Because the more division there is, the more it looks like there is chaos.”

Earlier in the segment, Campos-Duffy’s colleague, Gillian Turner, backed Trump’s claim that the report is fake news. While not specifically accusing NBC of any wrongdoing, she said she believes that the story is inaccurate.

“My take on this is it is probably a somewhat made-up story,” Turner said. “Whether it’s made up whole cloth, or whether it’s based on a game of telephone where

someone heard this, because they heard somebody else said that because somebody else who was there said this, I don’t know. But had Secretary Tillerson called President Trump a moron, I don’t think he would be the Secretary of State any longer today. And I don’t think any secretary of state in any administration would survive something like this.”

Following the NBC report, CNN confirmed with White House sources that Tillerson had called the president a “moron” in July.

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