A longtime confidant of President Trump said Sunday that the president has called "much of" the controversy surrounding Stormy Daniels a "political hoax."
"He said he thought that much of the Stormy Daniels stuff was a political hoax," Chris Ruddy said during an interview on ABC's "This Week."
"Again, those were his words."
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Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax, added that he thinks the American people are "really dismissing this as political witch hunts."