Kushner told ‘Morning Joe’ hosts to apologize to Trump or tabloid story would run: report
President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, told “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski they would need to apologize to Trump in order to avoid the National Enquirer publishing a story about their relationship, New York Magazine reported Friday.
The magazine reports that Kushner texted with Scarborough about the tabloid story before it ran in mid-April. Kushner said the story could be stopped if Scarborough and his co-host, who are engaged to be married, apologized to Trump for their negative coverage of his first months in the White House.
After Scarborough refused, the National Enquirer ran a story on June 5 titled “Joe & Mika: TV Couple’s Sleazy Cheating Scandal.”
The incident was originally revealed in a joint op-ed by Scarborough and Brzezinski in The Washington Post on Friday titled “Donald Trump is not well.”
In the article, the two write that Trump’s “unhealthy obsession with ‘Morning Joe’ does not serve the best interests of either his mental state or the country he runs.”
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In a statement to New York Magazine, the Enquirer said, “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.”
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Kushner told "Morning Joe" hosts to apologize to Trump or National Enquirer story would run: report https://t.co/Ps6P82iNH4 pic.twitter.com/ly3TQusVHV
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Threats? Isn’t that criminal? Maybe Joe and Mika should have looked into that.
I don’t like the thuggery going on in the White House. Do these people think they are the Corleones?
It would have been more helpful if Joe & Mika had released this information at the time the story was published and presented the texts and phone messages.
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