MSNBC host Stephanie Rhule revealed publicly for the first time on Tuesday that President Joe Biden's team tried to end an interview in May 2023 over a question about his son Hunter Biden.
More than a year and a half later, Ruhl told interviewer Lucas Timm that she was questioning Hunter Biden's possible indictment on the May 5, 2023, interview between the MSNBC host and the president. After asking what the impact would be, Biden said his team immediately tried to halt it. Presidency. She said the Biden team immediately panicked over a “totally reasonable question.”
“In the traditional media way, the White House runs the show. When I interviewed President Biden, they gave me 10 minutes, okay? Politicians have 15 minutes. “We can come up with an answer within minutes,” Ruhl said. “And 20 minutes before we went in, Savannah Guthrie and I were on the phone. Of course, she interviewed President Trump. And her advice to me was, 'You interview President Trump. That's not the person you're facing.'' Three questions are coming, top…9. In a minute and a half, I asked the president, “Your son Hunter may be indicted by the Department of Justice, how will this affect your presidency?''
“A perfectly reasonable question. As soon as I said those words, President Biden's team started waving their hands in front of the cameras and yelling for the interview to stop. Now, that immediately became public record and recorded That was a story in itself, and they punished us. It ended up being extended to 14 minutes, and then NBC was in the box forever.”
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According to a transcript of the interview, an error in the audio forced Mr. Ruhl to repeat his question about Hunter twice. According to To Mediaite. Her first question and the president's first answer were omitted from the broadcast version.
At the end of the televised interview, Biden told Ruhl that the charges against his son would not affect his administration because Hunter “did nothing wrong” and that he was “proud” of Hunter. “I think so,” he was heard saying. MSNBC did not air the presidential team's alleged attempt to terminate the interview after asking questions about Hunter. (Related: MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhl says Kamala Harris didn't go into details in interview 'because she's a politician')
Traditional media outlets, including MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle, have ignored reports of Biden's mental decline. They slammed a Wall Street Journal editorial that detailed the president's declining mental capacity behind closed doors in June. Following the president's disastrous debate performance on June 27, NBC News and Politico rushed to claim that two of Biden's top aides had colds.
Hunter was charged with and later convicted of three felonies for purchasing a Colt Cobra in October 2018 while under the influence of drugs and providing false information on the purchase form. He faced nine charges in California related to his alleged failure to pay $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019.
Ruhl said American audiences are tired of a traditional media environment that never receives “human moments” from politicians, adding that President-elect Donald Trump is breaking this rule.
“In a completely structured environment, you never have a human moment,” Ruhl continued. “And this is the thing about Donald Trump, whether you love him or hate him, when I say he's truthful but lying, people don't know what they're getting. I know and I'm tired of sophisticated politicians giving them soundbites You can tell by the fact that they're tired of consuming media. They don't want to consume media in a way that's like listening to 90 seconds of this or that. want real human interaction, and that's what legislators need to go for.”
The MSNBC host who interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris in September said the vice president had been giving interviews throughout the 15-week campaign, but those moments were missing.
Mr. Ruhl said in an interview Tuesday that he had an easier time reaching Mr. Trump than Mr. Biden and Mr. Harris, saying he simply got the president-elect's attention by making the call.
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