By POLITICO STAFF
President Donald Trump and “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough sparred over Twitter on Friday morning over an alleged National Enquirer hit piece, one day after the president was widely condemned by fellow Republicans for crudely tweeting that Mika Brzezinski had a “low I.Q.” and had been “bleeding badly from a face-lift.”
“Watched low rated @Morning_Joe for first time in long time. FAKE NEWS. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show,” Trump tweeted.
Trump’s latest missive came after Brzezinski and co-host Joe Scarborough wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post published Friday morning in which they said the president “is not mentally equipped to continue watching our show.”
They also addressed the issue of an alleged National Enquirer story-in-the-works, writing, “This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked. We ignored their desperate pleas.”
Brzezinski and Scarborough did not detail what article threatened to say.
Scarborough quickly fought back on Twitter Friday morning, writing back at Trump, “Yet another lie. I have texts from your top aides and phone records. Also, those records show I haven’t spoken with you in many months.”
He went on to write, “Why do you keep lying about things that are so easily disproven? What is wrong with you?”
The hosts have also questioned whether Trump has truly stopped watching their show, as the president has claimed, considering how he has repeatedly attacked them for some of their on-air comments.
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