Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough sparked a new war of words with President Donald Trump after the pair accused him of threatening them with a National Enquirer report about their relationship.
Brzezinski, 50, and Scarborough, 54, shed new light on their feud with Trump Friday, accusing him of threatening the couple that a supposedly unfavorable news story would be published if they didn’t apologize to him for negative coverage on their MSNBC show.
Celebrities’ Biggest Social Media Fails “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,” the duo, who got engaged in May, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed published Friday, June 30. “We ignored their desperate pleas.” “It’s blackmail,” Brzezinski added on Morning Joe’s Friday, June 30, episode. “Let me explain what they were threatening. They were calling my children, they were calling close friends and they were pinning the story on my ex-husband. I knew immediately that it was a lie and that they had nothing.” Donald Trump’s Most Outrageous Quotes Ranked The National Enquirer responded to the allegations Friday. The chief content officer of the magazine’s parent company, American Media, Inc., Dylan Howard, said “at no time did we threaten either Joe or Mika or their children in connection with our reporting on the story. We have no knowledge of any discussions between the White House and Joe and Mika about our story, and absolutely no involvement in those discussions.” American Media, Inc. also publishes Us Weekly. Howard added: “At the beginning of June, we accurately reported a story that recounted the relationship between Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the truth of which is not in dispute.”
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