The Mystery of the National Enquirer

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CLARE FORAN
12:22 PM ET

... Brzezinski and Scarborough made the .. allegations in a Washington Post op-ed .. Friday morning ...

... Spicer said he was “not aware” of White House staff ever urging the television hosts to apologize to the president in order to pre-empt a story in the National Enquirer ...

... Friday afternoon, citing three anonymous sources, Sherman reported that Jared Kushner .. told Scarborough .. that “he would need to personally apologize to Trump” in order to get the Enquirer to put a stop to a story ...

... Scarborough responded to the president’s Friday tweet, claiming that Trump was lying and suggesting he had evidence to prove that. He did not make clear whether he planned to provide any evidence ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/trump-joe-mika-tweet-national-enquirer/532389/

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1. What Really Happened

By Gabriel Sherman
June 30, 2017
12:33 pm

... Trump .. tweeted a quasi-confirmation .. saying .. Scarborough called to enlist his help to kill the story. Scarborough called Trump’s version a “lie” ...

According to three sources familiar with the private conversations ... Scarborough texted with Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner about the pending Enquirer story. Kushner told Scarborough that he would need to personally apologize to Trump in exchange for getting Enquirer owner David Pecker to stop the story. (A spokesperson for Kushner declined to comment). Scarborough says he refused ...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/what-happened-between-trump-morning-joe-and-the-enquirer.html

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2. Doesn't look like a mystery, sounds like a threat made to private citizens by the POTUS if they

... don't talk nice about him the Enquirer would print a story not flattering to said private citizens

Around the same time the Enquirer was calling said citizens children and then eventually printed the story (at some time afterwards)

This seems to be backed up by phone records and text messages by the private citizens which adds credibility to their position if affirmed

The POTUS on the other hand ran a fake college