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Feb 24
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Trump confidant says administration has 'got to slow down,' stop media war |
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A friend and confidant of President Donald Trump’s says he believes that the administration has “been doing too much” and that “they’ve got to slow down” and tone down its confrontation with the media.
Chris Ruddy, the CEO of conservative outlet Newsmax Media, has been a friend of Trump’s for nearly 20 years, much of that time as a member of the president’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach. He told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl and Rick Klein on the “Powerhouse Politics” podcast that the administration has been experiencing “messaging problems” during the first month in office, but calling those issues chaos “overstates it.”
Ruddy said that all of the Cabinet members are “A or A+ people” but that Trump’s inexperience as a politician means he’s on a “learning curve.”
“He is used to being very reactive, shooting from the hip and just telling people what he thinks,” Ruddy said. “I think there’s a view within the inside that they’ve been doing too much, that they’re stepping all over... |
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| Source:http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-confidante-administration-slow-stop-media-war/story?id=45673193 |
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