Trump Lives In A Facsimile Universe
D. S. Mitchell
Last week President Trump set off another Twitter firestorm when he began a vicious attack against MSNBC TV hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. Trump’s bad behaviors and odd proclivities have made for interesting chatter on their early morning political news show, ‘Morning Joe’. The Twitter attack came after several months of negative Trump coverage by the two TV hosts.
The heat of the outrage following Trump’s disgusting attack came from a wide swath of the public, Capitol Hill and the media. At the height of the Kerfuffle, Joe and Mika came on their own show as “guests”. The pair answered a slew of questions from their regular panel.
In short order, I watched the story shift from Trump’s questionable mental capacity to an even darker and more sinister sets of behaviors. Behaviors that support the James Comey’s recent testimony; threats and bullying being standard practice by the thug from Queens.
Joe and Mika told a hair raising tale ‘on air,’ of being excessively pressured, or “blackmailed”, by several White House officials. The staffers were demanding Joe and Mika call and apologize to the President, for their recent unflattering reporting of Trump on their show.
The pair described many ominous phone calls being made to their children and other family members threatening publication of an ugly National Enquirer story. Mika stated that White House staffers made frequent phone calls to her, telling her to back off the negative reporting of Trump.
Not only was there pressure to change reporting, but also to call the president and apologize. All they needed to do was cave to the threats by the White House thugs. If Joe made that apology call he was told the negative National Enquirer story would be scrapped.
Joe told his television audience that he had called Jared Kushner directly. During that conversation Kushner, confirmed, “All you need to do is pick up the phone and call and apologize, and the National Enquirer story will disappear”. Joe said he refused to apologize, and things deteriorated into Trump making the subsequent disgusting tweets attacking the two TV hosts.
The Trump attack against the commentators soon segued to how can Trump control what is published in the National Enquirer and how is he using that power to control and manipulate reporters and the news itself?
It is well-known that National Enquirer, CEO David Pecker has been friends with Donald Trump for decades. Despite Pecker denials of biased reporting favoring Trump it has been obvious for many months that The National Enquirer and TMZ are having a print love affair with Trump. And Pecker has been allowing his personal relationship with Trump to effect editorial decisions at the tabloid.
