The National Enquirer has deniedย claims by “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarboroughย andย Mika Brzezinski that the White House attempted to blackmail the morning show duo with a possible hit piece that involved going afterย Brzezinski’s children.
Scarborough and Brzezinski penned an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Friday titled, “Donald Trump is not well,” in response to the president’s Twitter attack on the pair. In the column,ย Scarborough and Brzezinski said that White House staffers threatened them, saying they would have to beg Trump to spike a story in theย National Enquirer.
“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.