This morning MSNBC viewers were shocked to hear Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski announce they’d visited Donald Trump over the weekend at Mar-a-Lago.
What? Their sworn enemy?
Why?
Well, last week on “The View” host, Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump staffer, told an amazing story live on the air.
Griffin said she’d told Matt Gaetz not to show a piece of gossip to Trump about Scarborough in the Oval Office.
She said, according to Entertainment Weekly, that Gaetz held in his hand a file suggesting Scarborough had murdered a former employee.
“He shows me these printed out conspiracy theories that Joe Scarborough of Morning Joe and former congressman had murdered his staffer,” Griffin claimed. “I said, ‘Please do not show these to the President of the United States.’ Then, days ensued of Donald Trump tweeting false, malicious claims about Joe Scarborough. The family of the woman who died — there was no foul play, it was a tragedy — begged Twitter and the White House to take it down, so that speaks to his character, integrity, and judgment.”
I had thought that perhaps NBC Universal brass had sent Scarborough to see Trump to call a truce before the new administration was seated. But I am told by insiders that he went — with wife Mika — on his own. Scarborough obviously heard this story on “The View” and went ballistic.
It’s not like he hadn’t heard it before from Trump. In May 2020, Trump called Scarborough a “total nut job” in a post on X, and offered the false claim of murder against the MSNBC personality.
“When will they open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough matter in Florida. Did he get away with murder? Some people think so,” Trump wrote. “Why did he leave Congress so quietly and quickly? Isn’t it obvious? What’s happening now?”
This morning, Mika said: “For those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back, ‘Why wouldn’t we?’ Joe and I realized it’s time to do something different, and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump but also talking with him.”
What makes all this so weird is that this morning Griffin announced on her show that she agreed with Scarborough for taking the meeting. No one mentioned last week’s story even though it occurred just five days ago on the same show and came from her!
Scarborough, for his part, also didn’t mention the murder conspiracy story. The former staffer, it was discovered, wasn’t murdered at all. She died from an undiagnosed heart condition according to an autopsy. But Trump took Gaetz’s tabloid allegations and wrote them on his feed. Trump was then President of the United States. Gaetz is now a candidate for Attorney General. Neither one of them hesitated to spread fake news.
But why didn’t Scarborough mention this part of his motivation for seeing Trump? Did they discuss it? We don’t know.
