TV journalists accuse White House of blackmail over tabloid story

June 30, 2017 22:53

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the hosts of MSNBCs politics show Morning Joe, on Friday accused White House staff members of blackmail.

Scarborough and Brzezinski also said Donald Trump lied about a December encounter, and that his unhealthy obsession with their program did not serve his mental health or the country well.

The two TV hosts, who are engaged to be married, postponed a vacation in order to respond to Trumps Thursday tweets about them tweets that drew widespread condemnation. Trump called Brzezinski crazy and said she was bleeding badly from a facelift when he saw the couple at his Florida estate.

On Fridays Morning Joe, Scarborough claimed several top White House staffers had warned him about an unflattering article about him and Brzezinski due to published in the National Enquirer, and told him Trump could arrange for the story to be pulled if the MSNBC host called the president to apologize for negative coverage of the administration.

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