Stephanie Ruhle: I Was Able to Get to Trump by Dialing His Phone While There’s 50 People in Between Harris or Biden

RUHLE: “And I’ll tell you one other example. The day after — after Donald Trump had that crazy rally at Madison Square Garden — “
HOST: “Oh, wow, yeah. Garbage — “
RUHLE: “ — I rolled the dice and I called him on the phone. And he answered!”
HOST: “Of course he did! Of course —
(Laughter)
What did he say?”
RUHLE: “And 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. But my point is, I was able to get to him by dialing his phone. Now that might be completely apesh*t 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 f**k myself, but I still was able to connect with him. Yeah.”
(Laughter)
HOST: “But he still picked up.”