Trump casually admitted to as much on Twitter, claiming that he can decide which stories get published in the paper
It turns out that MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski are more than willing to dish out dirt if President Donald Trump refuses to stop playing dirty. “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, ” on Friday. “We ignored their desperate pleas.” The two hosts elaborated on a morning edition of their show. “They said if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike the story, ” Scarborough said before claiming that his response was to not fold to their pressure. Brzezinski then went on to say that the National Enquirer contacted her children and friends, claiming that “they were pinning the story on my ex-husband, who would absolutely never do that, so I knew immediately it was a lie and that they had nothing.” She added, “And these calls persisted for some time, and then Joe had the conversations he had with the White House, where they said, ‘Oh, this could go away.’” Not surprisingly, this led to a Twitter war between Trump and the MSNBC hosts.
