Joe Scarborough: I Updated NBC Executives in Real Time About National Enquirer Threat

[highplainsdem]

This article is from RedState, not a site I usually check, but I found this article via a tweet from Rick Wilson:

Link to tweet

http://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/06/30/joe-scarborough-updated-nbc-executives-real-time-national-enquirer-threat/


I reached out to Scarborough and asked him about it and here is what he told me:

“NBC execs knew in real time about the calls and who made them to me. That’s why Mark Kornblau wrote about contemporaneous texts. I showed him and executives as they were coming in to keep them advised.”

Joe is referring to this tweet from Kornblau:

#Contemporaneous texts. https://t.co/QEdfkgLtbH

— Mark Kornblau (@MarkKornblau) June 30, 2017

I spoke with Scarborough by phone as well. “The last time I talked with President Trump was after his address to Congress,” he said. “I spent five minutes in the Oval Office with him, and three other people were in the room with us. There was never a moment I was alone with him.”

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Scarborough said the calls about the National Enquirer story started in late April and early May but that he never placed a call to President Trump. “I never called the President about this,” he said. “I challenge him to reveal any phone records showing that I called him. He can’t because I didn’t.”

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[Gothmog]

1. I am pleased that the morning Joe and Mika did not back down and apologize to trump

[Honeycombe8]

6. +1. nt

[.99center]

2. And NBC didn't think it was important for the public to know that

The president and the WH were attempting to blackmail reporters?

[lapislzi]

3. Yam never thinks his bluff will be called

And when it is, and he's revealed to be the empty suit he is, he just moves onto the next mark. The ultimate con. Nothing but a gussied-up carnival barker. I take that back. He gives con men a bad name. Con men do time when they're caught.

[klook]

5. He'll just claim Joe begged one of his aides

or make up some other horseshit, and get Sarah Huckabee Sanders to say it with a straight face. And his followers will gulp down whatever BS he serves them as though it were the most beautiful chocolate cake in the world, believe me.

[Honeycombe8]

7. That would prove his first tweet was a lie. No one but Trumpers believe him, any more. nt

[DesertRat]

4. Poetic justice

It would be poetic justice that Trump committed treason with Russia but it was Mika and Morning Joe that gets him impeached.

Link to tweet

[lindysalsagal]

8. I really don't care if potus tried to manipulate the press: I care that he sold us to russia

So, let's report that 45 used russia to tip the election to him and that they'll be back to control all future elections until we stop them.

[oasis]

9. Trump's really stepped in it now. nt

[melman]

10. I kind of hate how Joe and Mika are turning this into their 'moment'

[OnDoutside]

11. That's important for him to state this. One of the first things that occurred to me is that they

were doing a little fake news themselves, to get back at Trump. Informing the NBC execs in real time, is like Comey emailing his colleagues, it lends credence to what they are saying.