Newsmax Media CEO Christopher Ruddy was schmoozing at the company’s Christmas party at 230 Fifth with the likes of John Catsimatidis, Rita Cosby, Betsy McCaughey and Yankees President Randy Levine when he got a call from President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
After Trump thanked Ruddy for defending him on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” last Sunday, Ruddy said, “The president wants to talk to you,” and handed me his cell-phone. I will not disclose our off-the-record conversation.
Also on hand were talk-radio host Mark Simone, Rabbi Arthur Schneier and Larry Kudlow, who was being urged to quit his CNBC show to become chairman of the president-elect’s Council of Economic Advisers.