After MSNBC host and anchor Stephanie Ruhle’s feisty appearance on HBO’s “Real Time” last weekend, former president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump lashed out at her for insisting that any informed still-undecided voter with a brain should be voting for Kamala Harris . In a Truth Social post after the show, Trump called Ruhle “a dumb as a rock bimbo.” On Wednesday, while Ruhle appeared on colleague Nicolle Wallace’s show, “Deadline White House,” to promote Ruhle’s interview with Harris, the Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee, Ruhle said that a refreshing aspect of the interview was that Harris stayed positive.
“What I didn’t hear from her was divisive language,” Ruhle said. “What I barely even heard from her was ripping on Donald Trump. Imagine if I was sitting [with] Donald Trump.
Imagine the language he would be using. Please. And just the fact that we were talking about collaborative inclusivity .
.. I don’t know, Nicolle, vote for her or don’t vote for her, but isn’t it great to just have a positive conversation right now?” Wallace, aware of Trump’s insult, stuck up for Ruhle.
“I hope you would be divisive if you were sitting across from him, but we’ll put a pin in that let me play some more from the interview,” Wallace said. But Ruhle cut her off and leaned into the camera for effect, then delivered the knockout blow. “Let’s be clear,” Ruhle said.
“Let’s be clear: I thought he liked bim.