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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.
“I guess I would ask back, ‘Why wouldn’t we?'” Brzezinski asked on Monday in response to those who questioned why we would go speak to the president-elect at such tense times, especially between us.
“It’s time to do something different, and Joe and I realized that starts with talking to Donald Trump, not just talking about him,” she continued.
Their ratings fell 38 percent the next day compared to the year-average, and their largely leftist viewership fell 17 percent in the hour following their disclosure of the Trump encounter.
According to reports, Scarborough and Brzezinski have expressed to associates since the election that they fear Trump would exact revenge on them for their persistent criticism of the president-elect since their last meeting with him seven years prior. When Trump appointed Matt Gaetz, a former congressman from Florida, as his attorney general, those concerns increased. Gaetz declared his intention to resign as the nominee on Thursday.
According to Puck News, the Morning Joe hosts expressed their fear to friends and supporters before to their departure that Trump and Gaetz would revive flimsy conspiracy theories about the 2001 death of 28-year-old intern Lori Klausutis, who passed away from problems related to a heart condition. Fears that Gaetz and Trump would use the conspiracy to coerce Scarborough into filing a lawsuit were the source of the anxieties.
In 2022, Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former director of White House communications and current co-host of The View, testified before the House Select Committee looking into the Capitol riot on January 6. She claimed to have met Gaetz outside the Oval Office and that Gaetz had a folder containing “conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough murdering his intern.” After Gaetz showed the contents to Trump, he wrote about them on what was then Twitter.
According to a person who spoke to Puck, the hosts were “frightened of retribution” and worried that Gaetz, who served in the same congressional district in Florida as Scarborough, would look into the intern’s murder. The concerns, according to the source, were “not related to Comcast or ratings.”
Scarborough and Brzezinski believed that by meeting Trump, they may reduce his thirst for retribution, a different insider told Puck.
According to an MSNBC spokeswoman, Puck was informed that this description of the meeting’s reasons was untrue and incorrect.
MSNBC has been approached for comment by The Independent.
The encounter with the Morning Joe hosts had been “very cordial,” Trump stated on Fox News Monday morning.
“There was a lot of discussion, and I really valued their desire for open communication,” he said.
“We decided to talk in the future, and the meeting ended in a very positive manner,” Trump continued. The president-elect continued by stating that he anticipated more contacts with members of the press, “even those that have been extremely hostile.”
The former president stated that he has “a duty to the American people, and to our nation itself, to be accessible and open to the press.” But if you’re not treated fairly, that will stop. The long-term prosperity of the United States of America greatly depends on the media.
