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'Morning Joe' Hosts and Trump Bring National Enquirer Into Their Feud. By CHRISTOPHER MELE JUNE 30, 2017. Continue reading the main story Share This ...
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4 hours ago ... President Trump mocked Mika Brzezinski, a co-host of MSNBC's “Morning Joe ... Joe' Hosts and Trump Bring National Enquirer Into Their Feud.
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‘Morning Joe’ Hosts and Trump Bring National Enquirer Into Their Feud
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President Trump mocked Mika Brzezinski, a co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” on Thursday. Joe Scarborough responded on Friday.Credit
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The co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,’’ Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough,
defended themselves on Friday against President Trump’s Twitter attack
the day before, with Ms. Brzezinski saying that President Trump’s tweets
targeting her betrayed “a fragile, childlike ego” that was a profound
concern.
“We’re O.K. The country’s not,” Mr. Scarborough added.
The
two hosts also injected an element of supermarket tabloid intrigue by
asserting that top White House aides had contacted them to say that they
could prevent The National Enquirer from publishing a negative article
about them if they called the president, apologized for criticizing him
on their show and asked for his forgiveness.
Mr.
Trump soon fired back with a rejoinder, posting on Twitter that it was
the other way around — that Mr. Scarborough had initiated an attempt to
stop the Enquirer story — which the host then denied in a tweet of his
own, saying he had records to prove he was right.
The
exchange kept the spotlight on the coarse and personal criticism Mr.
Trump directed at the two hosts on Thursday, when the president described Ms. Brzezinski as “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” and claimed
that she had been “bleeding badly from a face-lift” during a social
gathering at Mr. Trump’s resort in Florida around New Year’s Eve.
In
a deeply divided capital, Mr. Trump’s attack managed to unite lawmakers
of both parties in condemning his remarks, and news organizations (even
Trump-friendly ones) also rebuked the president. And the personal
nature of his attack on Ms. Brzezinski revived the controversy over Mr.
Trump’s attitude toward women.
In an op-ed in The Washington Post
on Friday, Ms. Brzezinski and Mr. Scarborough, who are engaged to be
married, said Mr. Trump’s tweets represented a “continued mistreatment
of women” and they underscored that theme on their show as well.
“I’m
concerned about the messages that are being sent by this president,”
Mr. Scarborough said. “You have women who are being constantly
degraded.”
“It
is disturbing that the president of the United States keeps up his
unrelenting assault on women,” they wrote. “From his menstruation
musings about Megyn Kelly, to his fat-shaming treatment of a former Miss Universe, to his braggadocio claims about grabbing women’s genitalia, the 45th president is setting the poorest of standards for our children.”
The
White House did not explain what had prompted Mr. Trump’s outburst, but
a spokeswoman said the president was entitled to fight back against
those in the media who he felt attacked him unfairly.
Perhaps
the most striking part of the two hosts’ pushback was their claim that
the White House tried to leverage a planned article in The National
Enquirer to get them to apologize to the president for their comments
about him.
Mr.
Scarborough said they were repeatedly told that if they called the
president and apologized for their coverage, Mr. Trump would intervene
on their behalf. “We ignored their desperate pleas,” they wrote.
After the show aired, the fight moved to Twitter. Mr. Trump fired a volley, tweeting that he had watched the “low rated @Morning_Joe for first time in long time” and called it “FAKE NEWS.”
Referring to Mr. Scarborough, he wrote: “He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show”
Mr. Scarborough responded within minutes, denying Mr. Trump’s claim.
And again:
In a statement,
The National Enquirer defended an earlier story on Ms. Brzezinski and
Mr. Scarborough and said it had “absolutely no involvement” in any
discussions between the co-hosts and the White House.
“At
no time did we threaten either Joe or Mika or their children in
connection with our reporting on the story,” said Dylan Howard, the vice
president of news for American Media Inc., the Enquirer’s publisher.
In their op-ed, Ms. Brzezinski and Mr. Scarborough disputed the details of Mr. Trump’s Thursday tweets.
His
claim that Ms. Brzezinski was bleeding from a face-lift was “a lie,”
they wrote, adding: “Mr. Trump claims that we asked to join him at
Mar-a-Lago three nights in a row. That is false. He also claimed that he
refused to see us. That is laughable.”
They
wrote: “And though it is no one’s business, the president’s petulant
personal attack against yet another woman’s looks compels us to report
that Mika has never had a face-lift. If she had, it would be evident to
anyone watching ‘Morning Joe’ on their high-definition TV.”
Ms. Brzezinski did have a “little skin under her chin tweaked,” but it was not a secret, they wrote.
The
co-hosts were scheduled to be on vacation on Friday but delayed their
plans to appear on the show to respond to the president’s tweets.
Until
recently, the president had a friendly relationship with the hosts, who
were criticized during the campaign for their closeness to the
candidate.
In
recent months, however, the pair have excoriated Mr. Trump on the air,
denouncing his behavior and questioning his mental health — criticisms
the president views as a personal betrayal, according to a senior administration official.
Last month, Ms. Brzezinski and Mr. Scarborough told Vanity Fair
that the president had offered to officiate at their wedding and host
it at the White House or Mar-a-Lago. (Ms. Brzezinski said her answer to
that was, “If it weren’t Trump, it might be something to think about.”)
Mr.
Trump’s invective threatened to further erode his support among
Republican women and independents, both among voters and on Capitol
Hill, where he needs negotiating leverage for the stalled Senate health care bill.
A
spokeswoman for the president, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, on Thursday
urged the news media to move on. She argued during the White House
briefing that Mr. Trump was “fighting fire with fire” by attacking a
longtime critic.
A slew of Republicans criticized the president’s comments.
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska tweeted: “Stop it! The presidential platform should be used for more than bringing people down.”
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