The TV presenters also said three White House officials had told them the National Enquirer would publish a negative article about them unless they apologised to Mr Trump for their scrutiny of him.
Mr Scarborough said: “They said, ‘if you call the president up and you apologise for your coverage then he’ll pick up the phone and basically spike the story.’”
“I had, I will just say, three people at the very top of the administration calling me.”
Ms Brzezinski said reporters from the supermarket tabloid began harassing her family.
“They were calling my children,” she said. "They were calling close friends.
“These calls persisted for quite some time and then Joe had the conversations that he had with the White House where they said ‘oh, this could go away’.”
I know there are very real human costs to everything that’s happened since the election, and that shit ain’t funny, but holy shit are we living in an actual 3 ring circus now or what? Paddy Chayefsky couldn’t think up a tenth of this shit if he huddled in a writers’ room for a week with Kurt Vonnegut, Dorothy Parker, H.L. Mencken, Aaron Sorkin, Mark Twain, Margaret Atwood, and Jonathan Swift.
I was also thinking these actions taken by the WH sounded a bit Scientological.
eg:
Though the actions were not quite as meticulously diabolical as the Scientologists, we must remember the administration is currently heavily under-staffed.
He just retweeted a video that had been posted in reddit in the /r Trump subreddit which he has previously shown he follows, or someone on his staff follows.
