"We'll have them stop harassing your children, if you grovel to the President of the United States."
Earlier this week
we reported on how the Republicans were slowly turning on Trump due to the personal attacks he was posting on Twitter, this time aimed at the co-hosts of a U.S. TV breakfast news show.
Today, those hosts were back on their morning show, and went into full attack mode against President Trump, telling a frankly unnerving story that sounds eerily reminiscent to the plot of based-on-true-life-thriller The Insider.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski discussed the President's tweets, as well as aspects of a story published in the Washington Post, which can be found in full
here.
Scarborough claims that Trump has a "weird obsession" with their show, and certainly a "disturbing obsession" with his co-host.
They both talk about how they were essentially warned by the National Enquirer that they had a scandalous story on them both, and it would be leaked unless they rang up The White House and asked President Trump directly to have the story spiked, while also apologising for their negative coverage of his Presidency so far.
While they don't discuss the specifics of who they spoke to, Brzezinski claimed that the National Enquirer then began calling her children, and pinned the upcoming story on her ex-husband, while Scarborough received calls from several high-ranking individuals from The White House, and claimed unmarked vans were parked outside their homes.
The initial story of nasty, personal tweets has now expanded to personal blackmail, using the threat of negative press against individuals out of nothing more than spite and a personal vendetta.
Watch the full conversation with the Morning Joe hosts about the blackmailing below:
