UPDATE: JOE HAS PROOF – Morning Joe accuses Trump of trying to blackmail them over a National Enquirer story

by The Right Scoop

So apparently this is the backstory on Trump’s National Enquirer tweet from this morning, where he tweeted:

He’s obviously calling them liars, suggesting they called him to stop the story.

Anyway, here’s what they said about it this morning:

Here’s more:

NEWSWEEK – Writing an op-ed in The Washington Post Friday, Brzezinski first detailed the threats from the White House that a negative story in the salacious tabloid was imminent.

“This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked,” she wrote. “We ignored their desperate pleas.”

On their MSNBC show Friday, Scarborough and Brzezinski expanded on the threatened story, alleging that the White House told them to apologize to Trump for their critical coverage of the president in order to make the story disappear.

“We got a call that ‘hey the National Enquirer is going to run a negative story about you guys,’” Scarborough said. “And they said ‘if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage then he would pick up the phone and basically spike this story.’”

He added: “I had three people at the very top of the administration calling me and the response was like ‘are you kidding me, I don’t know what they have, run a story, I’m not going to do it.’

“The calls kept coming and they were like ‘you need to call, please call.’”

According to Brzezinski, the Enquirer, in fact, had no story but was harassing her teenage daughters and staking out her house.

“They were calling my children, they were calling close friends and they were pinning this story on my ex-husband, who I knew would never do that, so I knew immediately that it was a lie and that they had nothing,” she said. “And these calls persisted for quite some time and then Joe had the conversations that he had with the White House where they said ‘oh, this could go away.’”

If the story is true, it is worrisome. We don’t want a president stooping to such thuggish levels just to get good media coverage.

The thing is, even if the story isn’t true, Trump is so thinned-skinned that it only gives their story credence. And with this history of tweets against them and others during the campaign, it’s totally believable.

UPDATE:

Responding to Trump’s tweet, Morning Joe says he has PROOF:


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