Marco Rubio Fumes When Asked About Bombshell Exposé on Kimberly Guilfoyle — While He Was With Her: ‘Not Playing This Game’

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio furiously shut down media questions about explosive new allegations against U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle on Thursday, while Guilfoyle herself stood nearby as he prepared to leave Athens.

As he stood before reporters, Rubio was pressed over a new Wall Street Journal report alleging Guilfoyle asked Trump donor Eric Deters to cover a $100,000 credit card bill shortly before her Senate confirmation hearing and offered access to administration officials in return.

The secretary of state, however, made clear he had no intention of addressing the report on the tarmac when grilled by reporters, instead expressing frustration at being interrogated on a matter he had not had the chance to examine.

“Guys, I’m not playing this game with you, OK?” he said. “You guys write a story and then your editors tell you, ‘make sure you get a comment from him’ on something we haven’t seen. OK? You guys are not going to be our only source of information in the world. I’m sorry to tell you that. And so I want you to understand, no, that’s not the way the process is going to work.”

When a reporter asked how the process would work, Rubio grew more pointed: “Well, first of all, the process doesn’t work like this. We don’t conduct these things at a press conference on a tarmac in a foreign country because you wrote a story or somebody else wrote a story because some source gave it to you. So get that out of your head because that’s never the way it’s gonna work with me.”

He added: “You guys somehow walk around thinking that because some source told you something and you reported it. It’s the gospel. It’s not the gospel. It’s not the gospel for me. That’s not the way we do it.”

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