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NBC News reporter Stephanie Ruhle has clarified earlier reporting on the relationship between Donald Trump and his Secretary Of State, Rex Tillerson, making it clear that a source told her Tillerson didn’t call Trump a “moron” during a heated argument at the Pentagon; he called him a “fucking moron,” instead.


This is per Death & Taxes, which reports on an appearance Ruhle made on MSNBC earlier this week. Ruhle is one of several reporters credited on the NBC News piece, which both Trump and Tillerson have denounced with the usual “fake news” tag. According to Ruhle’s sources, Tillerson’s comments came after Trump compared the administration’s Afghanistan strategies to his own efforts to renovate a steakhouse. (Which, admittedly, does at least sound like a sentence that we wish we were making up.)