White House adviser who urged Trump to 'lay off Ukraine' is being punished: MSNBC host

During an appearance on "Morning Joe," to talk about Donald Trump's economic claims during a televised speech on Tuesday night, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle reported a White House insider has been shunted to the side for offering an alternative opinion on how to deal with Ukraine.

Sitting in a panel with host Joe Scarborough, Ruhle, a former Wall Street executive, first dismantled assertions made by billionaire Elon Musk about the economy before changing the topic to the president's treatment of President Volodymyr Zelensky last week.

"People are bracing themselves you know, the business community," she began. "Donald Trump did the unthinkable, he killed animal spirits, despite the fact that he that he's going to be extending tax cuts, that it's going to be a deregulatory bonanza, and that this is a big business administration."

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"In the last two weeks alone, you've seen lots of people in the business community, many who were supporters of the president, suddenly paralyzed, saying, 'I can't look right, I can't look left, I don't know what this guy is about to do.' And the thing that's most disturbing for them, and he didn't talk about it much, is truly his alignment with Russia in the last week."

"I'll tell you this last point, Joe, in the last week I heard that someone pretty close to Donald Trump in this administration had just voiced privately in a White House meeting that maybe we need to lay off Ukraine," Ruhle reported. "That person has already been boxed out."

She then predicted, "So when you wonder, how could the likes of a [Secretary of Commerce] Howard Lutnick, a [Treasury Secretary] Scott Bessent and others who understand markets, who understand the economy –– why aren't they pushing back?"

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