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According to a Puck News report, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, reportedly met with President-elect Donald Trump because.
They were concerned that Matt Gaetz, the then-attorney general nominee, would look into the death of an intern in Scarborough’s office while he was a Republican congressman from Florida.
“For those who ask 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?'” Brzezinski remarked on Monday.
“Joe and I came to the realization that we need to change things up, and that begins with talking to Donald Trump as well as discussing him,” she said.
In the hour after their disclosure of the Trump meeting, their mostly leftist viewership fell by 17%, and the next day, their ratings fell by 38% below the year-average.
Since the election, Scarborough and Brzezinski have allegedly expressed to associates their fear of Trump retaliation for their persistent criticism of the president-elect since their last meeting with him seven years before.
When Trump appointed former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz as his attorney general, those concerns intensified. Gaetz made his resignation as the candidate official on Thursday.
Before leaving, the Morning Joe hosts expressed to friends and supporters their fear that Trump and Gaetz would revive flimsy conspiracy theories about the death of 28-year-old intern Lori Klausutis, who passed away in 2001 due to complications from a heart disease, according to Puck News.
The anxieties were related to fears that Trump and Gaetz would use the plot to push Scarborough into filing a lawsuit.
During her 2022 testimony before the House Select Committee looking into the January 6 Capitol riot, former.
White House communications director and current co-host of The View Alyssa Farah Griffin claimed to have met Gaetz outside.
The Oval Office and that Gaetz was carrying a folder containing “conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough murdering his intern.”
Gaetz gave Trump access to the materials, and Trump then wrote about them on what was then Twitter.
The presenters were “petrified of retribution,” according to a person who spoke to Puck, and worried that Gaetz, who served in the same congressional district in Florida as Scarborough, would look into the intern’s murder.
According to the source, the concerns were unrelated to Comcast or ratings. Scarborough and Brzezinski believed they might reduce Trump’s need for vengeance by meeting him, a different person told Puck.
Puck was informed by an MSNBC official that this description of the meeting’s reasons was untrue and incorrect.
MSNBC has been approached by The Independent for comment. Trump described the encounter with the Morning Joe presenters as “very cordial” on Fox News Monday morning.
“A lot of topics were covered, and I really valued their desire for candid communication,” he said. Trump said, “We decided to talk in the future, and the meeting ended in a very positive manner.”
“Even those that have been extremely hostile,” the president-elect said, adding that he anticipated more talks with members of the press.
“I have an obligation to the American public, and to our country itself, to be open and available to the press,” the former president said.
But it will cease if you are not treated decently. For the United States of America to succeed in the long run, the media is crucial.